San Diego Liberty Review

Reviewed by Joe Shaver  on  5/20/2002

Rod Barry and his lover Dean go to the station to pick up Rod’s nephew, Rick Ritter. Dean is unhappy because he thinks Rick’s visit will put a crimp in his sex life. Rick arrives in his tight-fitting sailor suit. As soon as they get home Rick wants to shower so we get our first glimpse of his buff bod. (Rick is a handsome young guy reminiscent of Marco Rossi.) Rod and Dean take this time alone to suck some cock, but Rick has no shampoo and walks in to catch the lovers in flagrante delicto. Is he taken aback? Is he shocked? No. He simply drops his towel and joins them. (This is the first indication we have that there will be no emotions displayed in this film.) Dean now alternates between sucking Rod and sucking Rick. Rick sucks on Rod’s rod for ten seconds; then Rod sucks on Rick’s dick for five. Rick fucks Dean as Dean sucks Rod. Rod fucks Dean as Dean sucks Rick. All jack-off.
Next we find Rick with two of his military buddies, Troy Walker and Lance Landers, at their motel room. They talk about chicks. (Unfortunately not the little yellow kind with feathers.) They put on a porn channel, strip, and start playing with themselves. Although Rick is tanned all over, these two just have tanned arms and faces and chalk-white bodies. Lance, the littlest and cutest of the buddies, has a big dick. Rick compliments him on its size and Lance thanks him. Rick then asks if he can touch it. Lance lets him. Without asking, Rick leans over and sucks it. This inspires Troy to suck Rick. Then everyone sucks everyone else. Finally Lance forces his cock into Troy’s hairy ass (it’s hard to do—or NOT hard to do as the case may be.) Things go more easily when Troy sits on Lance’s cock. Rick has been left out of things for a while, but he now sucks Troy’s cock as Troy continues his ride. Rick then gets to fuck Troy who sucks on Lance’s joy stick. They jack-off. (Lance doesn’t cum.)
Scene three. Rick, cock in hand telephones two other buddies who are also with cocks in hand. These are Joe Johnson, a dark haired guy with some hair on his chest and a beer belly; and Irish, a red-headed guy who’s just flabby. (I wouldn’t say no to Joe on a cold lonely night, but I’d run like hell from Irish even if it were freezing.) As soon as they hang up the phone they go for one another’s dicks. But there’s Country Boy in the bathroom who enters totally nude except for a straw hat. “I though you were sleepin’”, he drawls. “Wanna join us?” Joe asks. He does. So now it’s our usual threesome formula for this film. Is a twosome too gay? Are threesomes the only way these straight gay-for-pay guys will do it? Come on Dirk Yates, vary this formula! This is getting boring! But back to the present scene. In no time at all, Joe is pushing his beer belly into Country Boy’s back and his dick into his butt, while CB unenthusiastically jerks at Irish’s prick. Then Irish has his turn at the young ass. Only about an inch of his cock enters and Country Boy is really not enjoying this at all. Everything in this scene is forced. It is a really an unpleasant scene with this obviously inexperienced skinny young guy paired with these two fat fucks. Country Boy is a cute kid and he deserves better company. This will turn him off gay sex for life, and that’s a shame!
I have now arrived at scene four without getting a hard on. Lance Landers is back and he’s showering with special attention to his dick. A dark haired guy is watching him and getting hard. (In the final credits he was identified as Brandon James. I didn’t recognize him because he has shaved his chest. In the other videos he was an adorable bear cub. Here, as a bare cub, he looks quite ordinary. Let it grow, Brandon!) It seemed that Dirk was going to vary his tiresome formula and give us a two-person scene, but NO, Frank Marine, a slender redhead with too many tattoos enters for a piss. Brandon stokes Frank’s cock and Lance walks out of the shower preceded by his erection with heads straight for Brandon’s mouth. Brandon sucks with vigor. He is the first guy in this video to suck cock like he enjoys it. (What is a gay guy doing in this film???) He is also the only one who likes to be fucked. “Harder!” he yells at Frank. And when he sits on Lance’s big dick it goes all the way in and his cock stays hard the whole time. Finally a scene that came near to getting me off! And it probably would have, if Brandon had looked his usual adorable best.
Films using these straight amateurs such as the Body Shoppe series or Dirk Yates’ own that get straight guys to jack-off on camera or get their cocks sucked by a guy for the first time can be something of a turn-on. But putting these straight guys in a conventional gay porn flick is not a good idea. It produces awkward sexual encounters that exude all the heat of the iceberg that sank the Titanic. This film sinks, too. It might be OK if these guys had really good bodies like the straights Bjorn uses, but these guys are not that attractive—except for Rick Ritter, they’re not attractive at all. Some like Rod Barry, may do more films. But they’ll never be stars. And Rod here was unrecognizable at first as age, booze, or lack of gym work has made him as ordinary as the rest of these losers. It is far better then to have experienced gay performers (Like Brandon James) who love to suck and get fucked and convey that enjoyment to the viewer than these unenthusiastic straight gay-for-pay dudes who just ain’t worth our money.