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From: [email protected] (Thom Burr) The more I see of Metro's Toxxxic line of DVDs the more I like them. And the reason I've been seeing more of them lately is because the price of the average Metro DVD has dropped to about $10, sometimes as low as $7. It's hardlyt the world's greatest erotica, but at that price, I can recommend Metro's stuff in general as solid, affordable DVD porn for the masses. This DVD is typical of what you get from Metro: 16 blowjob scenes featuring 18 girls. No plot, no interviews, no gonzo color commentary. Just two hours and twenty of straight wall to wall oral sex. Scene length is usually eight minutes but scene quality varies widely for one to the next. The best-looking girl on the disc and the most prominent on the boxcover is Torri, a twenty-something blonde with a pretty face quite reminiscent of Jen Teal. Torri mainly reminds me of a much younger version of Victoria Paris, though, with the same kind of womanly body build (a little deficient, however, in the chest area)...but maybe it's just the slightly overbite that reminds me of Victoria. At any rate, she had a very good scene here, complete with a decent facial. Kelsey Heart also put in a good scene, considering how quickly her looks seemed to tarnish once she entered porn. She kept the straight blonde hair and the thin body throughout her stint in porn, but near the end of she wasn't looking so great and had lost her cute smile--which is, nonetheless, quite prominent in her scene here. Wildcat / Cheyenne Silver also makes a good showing, though not up to her usually excellent standards. In particular, she flubs the climax shot, but she's still better than just okay. Melanie Stone, a veteran of the Blowjob Fantasies series (hereafter BJF) many times over, did one of her better jobs for #3; it certainly looks like her best climax shot. Somebody needs to buy the poor girl some clothes, however-- she wore the exact same outfit (and it's nothing special) for her scene in Shut Up and Blow Me #2... A recent RAME thread wanted to know Whatever Happened to the Latina Porn Starlet Sabrina? I don't know, but she did one of her last scenes for BJF #3. This disc was the first I'd seen of Sabrina (aka Sabrina Gelata, Sabrina Maldano, and others). She had a tall dark Latina look, which isn't seen much in US porn, and I thought was very hot. (Some will not agree, but this is not the place to start one of those discussions that inevitably ends in charges of racism being hurled back and forth..) Whatever the case, her scene here, though otherwise quite good, is weakened by the rather small guy who only managed a perfunctory climax. Vanessa, the petite little brown ethnic mystery mix, never undressed in her scene, which was a big disappointment for me...The climax shot was also not so great. Otherwise, Vanessa does a fine job in a good scene that is still not her best work. There are two sets of tag-team blowjobs, each with two girls doing one guy. There is no lesbian action in either, and the girls in general don't interact that much. The first has black starlets India and Xtacee doing a black guy (for all practical purposes, there is are no interracial scenes on this disc). The second has Liza Harper and Phillysha Anne. All the girls are good-looking (especially India: long brown hair, good body, nicely complected milk chocolate skin, and a pretty face--her lip/chin piercing is a little odd, though), and they all work hard, but neither of these scenes is very effective (not for me. anyway). Fans of this kind of think will think otherwise, but I'd rate both as just okay. Marylin Star has a rather hard plastic look (particularly in the chest), but she has a okay scene. (I sure hope they find her innocent in insider trading case--I can't believe that she really understood how criminal the advice of her idiot sugar daddy was. Of course, trying to escape to Canada was one of the dumber ways to deal with the matter...) Elena has some serious complexion or makeup problems and does not look nearly as good as she has in other videos, but her scene is passable. Gina Ryder, who should be pretty depsite her fake breasts, snarls through her scene rendering it barely passable. Both Randi Range and Azlea are dark-haired porn hardcases with breast implants and tattoos, and, despite these handicaps, both had okay scenes until the climax shots, which were done across the girls'...feet. One of the girls then actually proceeds to...lick her own feet (and if you need to know which of the girls does it, well, get a life, sicko...) I'm very sorry to (better: for) all the foot fetishists, but--...uuggh. This is NOT what I want to see in an oral sex video. I want to see oral sex, and I want to see facials. I do NOT want to see "pedetials" or "podiatals" or whatever the fucking word is. I know there is a market of that kind of shit, and THAT is why specialty FOOT fetish video exist. So it does have to be my nice mainstream ORAL porn. To any fetishists actually offended, I hope you'll excuse me, becauset the whole Perverts United thing can only go so far...Both scenes are quite bad. Rant concluded. Finally, Nico Treasures looks quite misused and sleazy in her poor scene. All the dyed blonde hair, big fake tits, garish tattoos, and Tammy Fay makeup conspire overwhelm the viewer with porn skank overkill. Strange thing is, I met her in person once, and she seemed and looked quite nice...Not in this scene, though. Nico does start to look better compared against Montana Gunn, who shares all the Porn Skank qualities mentioned above, only to a more detrimental degree. Her scene is bad to the point of being unwatchable. Raquel Devine closes out my summary of the girls on a truly wretched note. Raquel is one of the ultimate used-up no-talent skank queens of porn history, and his scene is disgustingly bad. So, all told, the scene breakdown runs something like: 1 very good, 5 good, 3 okay, 2 passable, and 5 bad or worse. Not one of the greatest scorecards, but considering the price, it works for me. DVD extras are limited to a pathetic little slide show and the standard set of 30 Metro trailers on the B side. As always, they're quite interesting the first time you get them on a disk, and merely annoying every time you see them on a new disk thereafter. The picture and sound quality are quite good, much better than VHS. I should also mention that the quality of the videography and camerawork is much higher in BJF #3 than in most wall-to-wall porn. This was Greg Alves first release after taking over the BJF line and his attention to detail shows (with the exception of a few of his choices for the girls). Finally, this title was lensed almost 2 years ago--6/ 3/1998. It's somewhat dated, but at least a couple of the girls are still active as of the present. I can recommend this disc pretty easily, so long as one is forewarned about the various imperfections (in particular, the skank and foot factors) and isn't spending more than $10. It's a nice budget feature--much better than a cheap no-name (or worse: Sunshine) compilation title, and it won't strain the wallet. Review VII
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