Space Nuts Review

Reviewed by astroknight  on  10/22/2003

Running Time: 185 min.

Production Date: 8 / 08 / 2003

Director: Jonathan Morgan

Cast: Stormy, Devinn Lane, Jessica Drake, Kaylani Lei, Kim Chambers, Casey Pink, Katie Morgan, Amber Rain, Hollie Stevens, Evan Stone, Randy Spears, Kyle Stone, Scott Styles, Julian, Steve Hatcher, and Trevor Zen in sexual roles and Shanna McCullough, Ron Jeremy, Mike Horner, and Jim Enright in non-sex roles

Initial Expectations: It’s been said that this is Jonathan Morgan’s best movie ever. That’s some stiff competition (pun intended), and makes this perhaps the highest my expectations have been for a DVD release.

Initial Reaction: It’s fucking hilarious, or is that hilarious fucking? Whatever. This is probably the funniest porn movie I’ve ever seen and shows just why Jonathan Morgan is the master of the adult comedy.

Who Should Watch It : Anybody wanting a good laugh as well as sex

Who Should Avoid It: Anybody who fast forwards to the action

Audio /Video Quality: Space Nuts is presented in anamorphic widescreen with 5.1 surround sound. Yes, it looks and sounds almost as good as you’d hope it would! The audio is very clear and well balanced without so much as a hint of background noises. Some of the video is a little cheesy, looking like it came right out of a Nintendo game, but Jonathan Morgan can make cheesy work and it’s still some of the best special effects I’ve seen in an adult movie! Some of the video looked a bit hazy, with the lines appearing shadowy rather than crisp. This problem stood out to me several times throughout the movie, and since it seems highly unlike Wicked I’m not sure if this was part of the result of my player having problems with the movie DVD.

Music: Most of the music has a futuristic electronic feeling that works very well, but some has soft feeling that doesn’t fit too well. Thankfully it’s nicely balanced most of the time.

Disc Problems / Complaints: I had more than a few problems getting the Space Nuts DVD to run on my DVD-ROM. I have a feeling that the problem was probably more due to my player than the DVD itself, but it annoyed me enough that I’m mentioning it here. Thankfully that problem never occurred with the Extras DVD.

Menus: The menus are nicely animated and give an excellent first impression. The only thing that holds the menus back in the least is that the chapter menu lets you choose the scene by a scene number only rather than letting you know the name of the performers in the scenes or by giving you a submenu to let you jump to multiple points in each scene.

The Feature: Some guys just can’t take a clue. Princess Hubba Hubba (Stormy) turns down the Evil Overlord (Mike Horner with a fantastic makeup job), but being an evil alien overlord, he’s willing to kill whoever he has to in order to marry the Princess and gain control of the Cliteron System with the help of General Warts (Kyle Stone) and Dark Witch (Devinn Lane). The only thing standing in her way is Buzz Starfocker (Evan Stone) and her android Jeeves (Randy Spears). Buzz doesn’t want anything to do with her, but when Overlord blows up his Floating Balls space casino he’s drawn into the fight to rescue the Princess in the hopes that maybe there’s a buck and a fuck in it for him.

Stormy starts things off giving Ensign Trevor Zen a commendation. Trevor quickly drops down to suck Stormy’s snatch before letting her ride him reverse cowgirl style. They keep things going with a bit of missionary before Stormy sucks and strokes Trevor until he pops on her face.

This is a pretty good scene. It doesn’t feel really intense, but Stormy really looks like she’s into it. Her eyes darn near shoot fire a couple times during the scene, and she takes a facial at the end without batting an eye. The camera work is a little softer than I think a lot of people would like, but at least you can tell that Stormy’s really into it.

Devinn Lane takes Scott Styles back to her chambers to try to extract some uhm, information from him. After questioning Scott until he gives a little information, Devinn has Hologram Girl Kim Chambers reward him. Kim releases his restraints and drops down to suck and stroke Scott’s schlong before sticking her leg on his shoulder and letting him pound her pussy. Kim rides Scott reverse cowgirl style next before letting him fuck her from behind. Finally, Kim sucks and strokes Scott until his spitting snake throws up in her eagerly waiting mouth.

This is a pretty hot scene. Scott and Kim have the great chemistry one would hope for from a real life couple but rarely seem to get. There’s nice energy as well as some good intensity, while the cameras and editing keep things mixed up nicely.

Randy Spears works off being rescued by working as a pleasure droid with Kaylani Lei, a hot Oriental with some wicked sexy shoes, after she pushes his buttons a bit. She plays with Randy through his silver suit before pulling out his cock and giving it some nice oral attention complete with eye contact. Kaylani climbs up to ride him without any warmup for her before letting Randy give her a bone doggie style. Finally she rides him in the mandatory reverse cowgirl before stroking his man milk onto her tongue.

This is another pretty hot scene. Kaylani is part of the newest batch of Wicked contract girls, and does a good job of showing why here. She really seems to get into it, and puts some nice energy into it in addition to the chemistry. Randy also does a good job, but is fairly subtle throughout the scene and never takes the attention away from Kaylani.

Evan Stone gets busy with blue alien Uwhora (Jessica Drake) in the fourth scene when she doesn’t want to settle for some cuddling. Evan fucks Jessica’s face before giving it to her from behind and missionary style. Jessica rides him reverse cowgirl style before taking a very nice pop on her tongue and swallowing some of it down.

This is another pretty hot scene. Jessica and Evan are another real life couple, and once again they deliver the chemistry and energy one would hope for rather than what one normally gets. The camera work is a little better balanced here than in the other scenes, and helps this end up as a nicely done and hot scene.

Next up, Steve Hatcher and Katie Morgan get it on in the holodeck jungle setting. They strip each other down a little before Katie devours Steve’s stick as he leans against a rock. Katie takes her turn against the rock for Steve to fuck her. He starts out facing her before Katie turns around to let Steve give it to her from behind. Katie finishes Steve off fucking him as he leans against the rock before dropping down and taking an okay facial.

This is an extremely hot scene! Katie and Steve look to be completely into each other to the point that the world could end around them and they wouldn’t even notice. There’s great energy and the looks between them were some of the most intense I’ve ever seen in what’s considered the “couples genre”.

Stormy and Julian get it on after the Overlord transforms himself into somebody Stormy would be a bit more interested in. They kiss passionately before Stormy frees Julian’s overgrown joystick and takes as much of it as she can into her mouth. Apparently not wanting to get shot into space, Stormy climbs right onto Julian’s pole rather than trying to get any oral pleasure to warm her up. Julian gives it to Stormy from behind and spoons her before finally giving her a monster pop across her face. How big is it? Stormy actually starts laughing a little when it keeps coming so long that the Energizer Bunny’s jaw drops off camera. In the commentary they even talk about Jonathan editing down the pop shot for time!

This is a hot scene! You can tell that Julian and Stormy are really into each other, and they don’t seem to hold anything back. There’s great energy and looks between them that are hot enough that I’m surprised Julian’s rubber didn’t start on fire!

After the Evil Overlord goes to sleep, General Warts (Kyle Stone) breaks out his jar of Inst-a-date. After closely following the “just add water” instructions (since just add semen would probably ruin the need for the Inst-a-date), Amber Rain and Casey Pink magically appear in silver and pink. The girls team up to suck Kyle before Amber lays back for a little missionary while Casey occasionally licks Amber’s juices off Kyle’s cock. Casey lets Kyle fuck her from behind while she eats Amber before Kyle rewards them with a shared facial.

This is a fairly average scene. The girls seem to be into each other pretty well, but I hated how the camera panned away every time there was a position change. Kyle does a decent job, and the highlight of the scene is easily the two girls kissing after taking the facial.

Devinn Lane gets it on with Evan Stone before throwing him into the Pit of Death in the eighth scene. They start things out with plenty of kissing, fondling, and trash talking and oral for each of them before Devinn climbs up to ride Evan reverse cowgirl style. Devinn lays back for Evan to take a bit of control fucking her before popping on her fantastic funbags and giving her a passionate kiss.

Needless to say, this is a great scene! Yes, Devinn decided to look like a raging, manhating lesbian for years, but now that she’s taking cock she’s showing that it was worth the wait. There’s great chemistry as well as great energy here, and it works out to be one of the best scenes in the movie.

After giving her a tour of his recharging closet and making sure she can imitate Koi fish, Randy Spears takes on Hollie Stevens in the penultimate scene. Hollie goes down on Randy, stroking him and trying to take him into her throat before she climbs up to ride him cowgirl style. Randy also does Hollie doggie style before giving her an Elmer’s Glue-like facial.

This is a pretty good scene. Hollie seemed a little uncomfortable sucking Randy, and I was a little disappointed that he didn’t give her any oral loving to get them started. Thankfully the fucking picked up nicely, and the facial also turned out nice.

Finally, Evan Stone gets royally fucked by Stormy in the tenth scene. She gobbles his knob before Evan kisses her kitty. Stormy starts fucking Evan in the mandatory reverse cowgirl before laying back in a chair and letting him fuck her half way between pile driver and missionary. Finally, Evan gives Stormy a good facial that she seems to love. She doesn’t shy away from it at all and her smile just seems to get bigger as Evan’s population pudding slops across her face and into her mouth.

This is a pretty good scene to finish things up with. I’m thrilled to have the oral action somewhat balanced, and Stormy and Evan really look like they’re into each other. There’s a bit more intensity here than in the other scenes, and it makes this a winner that shows why Stormy is definitely a contract girl to keep an eye on!

Although it has some hefty competition, Space Nuts is definitely Jonathan Morgan’s best comedy. The story is very well done, and does a great job of ripping off darn near every sci-fi movie you can think of in some way or another. Those Luca$ movies, the TV series that has the guy with the pointy ears and the guy with dramatic pauses who sleeps with every alien babe he meets, its spinoff with the bald guy in charge, the kickass JMS series, Cameron’s Aliens, and even Mel Brooks’ parody of sci-fi movies are all skewered here along with plenty of other jokes which kept me laughing whenever somebody wasn’t fucking, and even part of the time when they were fucking. It couldn’t have made it, however, without the excellent casting. Evan Stone is more than just meat and jokes here, and I think this is the best job I’ve seen him do in a movie. His seriousness is nicely matched by Stormy’s bitchiness and Devinn Lane’s ball busting frustration, but Randy Spears and Mike Horner steal the show. Randy is easily at his funniest here, with his suave charm leading to hilarious results whether he’s around humans, aliens, or even machines. Heck, even the Koi fish aren’t safe around Randy, who help him deliver a line that had me laughing for days after first seeing it! Mike Horner is every bit as funny, with his masterful use of facial expressions and body language making him the funniest bad guy I’ve seen since Dr. Evil. I don’t think there was ever fifteen minutes straight where Mike Horner was on screen where I didn’t have at the very least a big smile on my face.

Sadly, the sex is a bit weaker than the non-sex portions of the movie, but it’s still pretty darn good. There’s a couple scenes that seem fairly average, but there’s also smoking scenes with Stormy and Julian, Katie Morgan and Steve Hatcher, and Evan Stone and each of his three partners. The scenes feel like they’re aimed a little too much at the guy part of couples, as there’s very little oral sex for the ladies and they feel a bit soft without an anal or all girl scene. The camera work and editing also seemed a little too artistic, but there’s enough hot action that I can’t say that I ever lost interest in the scenes.

Space Nuts is a fantastic fuck flick! It’s funny, well acted, and has some nicely done sex. I want to say that there’s a major problem with it somewhere, but the worst complaint I can have about it is that the sex seems a little too couples focused, and with this type of movie I’m not sure that it’s such a bad thing. Jonathan Morgan has a reputation for making the best comedies in the jizz biz, and Space Nuts rises to the top of his movies easily.

Extras: The only extra on the first DVD is a commentary with Jonathan Morgan, Stormy, and Randy Spears. You can listen to it as an audio commentary or watch it as a video commentary with the movie in picture in picture mode. You never know what’s going to happen in the commentary. They talk about making the movie, the cast, sex, and the other usual things in commentaries. Stormy also gets a bit wild and diddles herself many places in the feature, which makes the video commentary a great addition! Throughout it all, Stormy, Randy, and Jonathan sound like they’re having a lot of fun and really enjoyed making the movie. It’s a nicely done commentary and worth checking out.

The video commentary isn’t available throughout the entire movie, but there is an icon that appears to let you know when it’s available. The icon is a little annoying as I couldn’t see a place to shut it off. It’s in the lower left corner, which is really annoying because it’s almost impossible to get out of your mind. When you see the icon, you can use the multiple angle option to put the movie in the bottom corner of the screen while the major portion of the screen moves to the commentary.

The second DVD is packed with extras. Main of the usual extras are here, such as trailers, photo galleries, promotional material, profiles, award lists, and a commercial for the Free Speech Coalition. Trailers are included for Bordello Blues, Falling From Grace, Hercules, Heat, XXX Training, and Space Nuts (which is available either as a soft or hard trailer). Star stats, including a bit of personal information, a photo of the star from the movie, and a link to the star’s scene, are included for Stormy, Devinn Lane, Kaylani Lei, Evan Stone, Randy Spears, and Jonathan Morgan.

The main photo gallery lasts about four and a quarter minutes with about six seconds per very nice looking photo. Star galleries lasting two minutes each are included for Stormy, Devinn Lane, Kaylani Lei, Amber Rain, Casey Pink, Hollie Stevens, and Kim Chambers. There’s also a behind the scenes gallery that lasts a little over three and a quarter minutes and a special effects makeup gallery which lasts over three and a half minutes. In a different move for Wicked, the camera pans through each photo. I’m not sure if I like this or not, but it is different.

There’s also a ten question trivia game. If you get past the ten questions, which aren’t too difficult if you watch the movie, then you get twenty Easter eggs. Many of them are outtakes from the movie, such as the dangers of facials and some of Stormy’s other sounds, but there’s also a few looks behind the scenes, such as the killer bees on the set and an argument about camel toe, and a little screwing around on the set, which is probably unavoidable when you have Evan Stone around. There’s plenty of stuff here, and although none of it is wildly entertaining, it still makes for a decent extra.

There are a ton of video extras on the second DVD. There’s featurettes on the making of the movie in general, as well as features on the special effects. You also have blooper reels, rehearsals, and the director’s diary. There’s even an interview with Jonathan Morgan and a look at Stormy’s Wicked Essensual Elements Shoot.

The Girls of Space Nuts featurette lasts about four and a half minutes. It’s a nice collection of the stills being shot, and basically acts as a moving photo gallery. This has been a pretty standard extra for Wicked for a while, and I can’t say that I dislike it. It’s nicely organized by girl, and captures their beauty as well as a touch of their personality.

All Access: The Making of Space Nuts lasts nearly forty minutes and takes a day by day look at the seven day shooting of the movie. You get to see a little of each of the scenes being shot, and everybody in the cast is nicely identified so that you know who’s who. There’s plenty of Jonathan Morgan explaining what’s happening each day and working with the cast. It’s a nicely done behind the scenes featurette that gives a good look at the making of the feature.

The Director’s Diary lasts about twelve minutes. This is basically director Jonathan Morgan talking with the camera throughout the filming of the movie. If you ever wonder what could go wrong during a porno shoot, this is the featurette for you. Jonathan doesn’t seem to hold much back, and goes over what takes time and why as well as why some things have to be rushed. It’s a very different feel from the usual behind the scenes one gets on movies, and I think that’s some of the reason why I like this featurette so much. There’s only so much editing a person can do when you’re speaking your thoughts to the camera and still have it come out so that it makes any kind of sense. This is a great extra and one I hope Wicked keeps going.

The blooper reel lasts almost ten minutes. You get flubbed lines, people falling over each other, sexual bloopers, and pretty much anything else you can think of going wrong. There’s a lot of humor throughout this featurette, and if you can’t find something to make you laugh in it then you probably shouldn’t have picked up this DVD.

The special effects reel lasts a little over a minute and a half and can be played with or without a commentary. If you choose to watch the featurette without commentary, you see how several areas of the movie are taken from CGI to the main movie. The commentary adds Jonathan Morgan explaining some of the process. It’s a nice little featurette that adds a bit to the overall package without going into too much detail.

The Best of On-Camera Commentary featurette lasts about twenty five minutes. It’s very nicely edited together with the movie so that it flows well. It never feels hacked together and the movie is there just enough so that you know what they’re talking about. This is a great featurette for anybody who’s curious about commentaries, and I think collects almost all of the video commentary.

The Casting Call lasts just over eight minutes and shows Jonathan Morgan conducting the Space Nuts casting call at World Modeling. There are plenty of new faces, as well as some recognizable faces from Adult DVD Talk such as Kimi Lixx and Kelly and Hamilton Steele. There’s also well known stars who didn’t make it into the movie such as Angel Long and Olivia Saint. Jonathan quizzes the girls on what they will or won’t do, sometimes taking the girls one on one and sometimes taking them as a group. It’s an interesting featurette if for no other reason than to see that some of the stars who’ve been in the industry a little while don’t just sit back and wait for the calls to come and to see that there are all types of people who try to get into porn.

The Space Nuts Rehearsal featurette lasts almost six minutes. It comes from the first day of rehearsal where Jonathan and the cast work out the little details of the characters before they ever go in front of the camera. Evan Stone, Stormy, Mike Horner, and Jessica Drake are the main stars featured here, but you also get a little of Devinn Lane. The rehearsal is cut together with scenes from the movie, and flows nicely as Jonathan goes over the scenes with the stars. It’s nicely done and once again, adds a nice bit of depth to the DVD. My only complaint here is that there’s a few moments with some remnants and pixelation.

The Cold Readings featurette lasts about six and a half minutes and features a few ladies from the auditions (as well as Adult DVD Talk’s own Victoria Givens, who will hopefully be appearing in a Wicked movie in the near future) reading from the script to try and make the final cut. Evan Stone, Kyle Stone, and Hamilton Steele (who will also hopefully be appearing in a Wicked movie with his lovely wife as they can both definitely act very well and deliver scorching anal scenes to boot) help the ladies by playing the male roles while the girls try out for Princess Hubba-Hubba, Uwhora, and Dark Witch (which were finally given to Stormy, Jessica Drake, and Devinn Lane respectively). It’s another nice look at some of what it takes to put together a full movie and shows just how much some of the good performers stand out from the bad ones.

The interview with Jonathan Morgan lasts roughly six and a half minutes. He talks about why he did Space Nuts, his budget and some of where it went, and how much the support he has. He also talks about the casting for the movie and how talented the movie’s cast is. It’s a nicely done interview, and as always, Jonathan comes across as gracious, intelligent, and extremely articulate.

Stormy’s Wicked Essensual Elements Shoot lasts about a minute and a half. Unlike some of the other Wicked Essensual Elements featurettes, which normally showed the process the girls went through to have their body modeled to make sex toys, this featurette concentrates on the photo shoot for the products. Stormy gives a short talk, where she of course looks extremely cute and shows off more than a little charm, before posing for a multitude of photos. It’s a nice little featurette that is sure to please Stormy’s fans.

There are also a couple odd extras. First is the review from AVN. Maybe I’m just jealous of the coverage AVN still gets, but this didn’t really add anything to the package for me. The other is pictures of posters for Space Nuts. You can either view the entire poster or zoom in on the bottom half, but since the posters look pretty much like the cover, this didn’t add anything for me either.

There are also a few DVD-Rom items. The Wicked company profile, Casino game, and listing of Wicked’s award winners and nominations, which used to be a standard DVD extra, are now DVD-Rom Extras. There’s also Space Nuts desktop wallpaper and a link to Wicked’s website.

Themes: Straight, comedy, B&D, interracial, group, lesbian, and spanking

Raincoat Factor: Medium

Condom Usage: 100%, although many times it’s not even noticeable

Overall: Currently, Space Nuts can be found online for between $25 and $45 with many stores offering it for below $30. Spend the money here! The movie’s hilarious and the sex is pretty good. The transfer had a couple minor problems for me, but I’m not sure that they weren’t due to my player. Finally, there’s a ton of extras, almost all of which are nicely done.

Note to Wicked: Great job here! Thanks for giving Jonathan the budget he needs to make movies like this!

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