Reviewed by SexHerald Staff
As porn stars go, Claudio Antonelli, a member of Pacific Sun’s studio system, delivers the goods: he’s handsome, muscular, and versatile, as is well evident in this package that might as well be called his greatest hits.
This DVD boasts three hours of scenes in which Antonelli does his thing: sucking and fucking gentlemen of the same bland, golden, good looks as he. The film features scenes from eight different Pacific Sun productions: Muscle Beach, Lovers of Arabia, Santorini Heatwave, Arabian Knights, Rammed, Secrets of a Wrestler (Volume 1): Muscle Lust, Airborne, and Sunstroke. There’s enough material here that it doesn’t matter that the special features are nothing great (save an entertaining behind-the-scenes feature on another film).
My favorite of these eight scenes is the long and deliberate scene from Secrets of a Wrestler, in which Antonelli and two costars take a break from practice to enjoy lunch and a long, sweaty threesome. The subtitles are poorly translated, of course, but the earnest look on the stars’ pretty faces as they get through their lines is adorable. Still, viewers don’t want adorable, they want hot, and the scene delivers. Those who like the college athlete type will love the way the actors’ erections look as they strain the nylon of their unitards, and will be all the more delighted when the cocks come out, or when Antonelli’s six pack abdomen flexes during his cumshot.
The featured scene from Airborne is a good example of what this studio does best: assembling an impressive cast of handsome, toned performers who are convincingly lusty. Military fetishists will enjoy the humiliation to which one recruit is subjected when his commanding officers discover his porn stash. An abrupt seven-man orgy ensues.
Considering that these are all group scenes, from threesomes to parties of seven, the sex here is strangely sterile and formulaic. There’s not a lot of excess fluid, not much kinkiness; the dirtiest moment might be when two guys swap tag team one ass, which is hot, but I couldn’t help feel that the scene from, say, Arabian Knights (six sturdy types boasting tans and impressive hard-ons), saw the director fail to take advantage of the assembled company and their various talents. Even when the six of them are going at it, there’s a disconnection between the participants, and it’s more a scene of three couples fucking than of six men fucking. That might be splitting hairs, but I won’t deny it’s sexy, I just wish it were sexier.
Also, as these are group scenes, Antonelli seems strangely beside the point. Because the men in these movies are all of such a particular type, sometimes it’s actually hard to spot the ostensible star, though he does sport a giveaway tattoo. Still, taken as a package, this DVD is top-notch; the eight scenes are long and fulfilling, and thematically and aesthetically consistent, making this a worthwhile investment whether you worship at Antonelli’s altar or have never heard of him before. TheClaudioAntonelliCollectionVolume1
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