The opening scene of director Mike Donner's "In the Jeans" set my heart racing: hot-bodied, longhaired stud Niko enters laden with shopping bags. Oh joy!, I thought: shopping AND gay porn, two of my very favorite things. As the title indicates, the long love affair many gay men have with denim in all of its forms is the theme for every sex scene. Truthfully, though, it isn't the denim that holds my interest, it's what's hidden behind the cloth.
Buff stud Niko is the glue that holds the plot together, serving as the bridge between the acts, gradually losing all his clothes until the end.
First up are boyfriends Jason Harley and Jason Crew (this production has more Jasons than you can shake your stick at). Jason H. watches as Jason C. tries on an old pair of too-short cut-offs that he is considering donating to charity. This drives Jason H. into a frenzy of lust, leading to a very hot mutual suck-and-rim act between the pair. The centerpiece is a flip-flop fuck that has Jason H. getting it from Jason C. missionary, then, and most visually arresting, sidesaddle. Then Jason C. gets on his back and Jason H. shoves his uncut dick deep inside his ass. Their energetic coupling leaves them sweaty, cum-covered and drained in the finale.
What gay man hasn't been entranced by the sight of a taut male ass encased in a pair of form-fitting jeans? Hunky stud Viktor Perseo goes the fantasy one better by actually acting on the enticement, ripping the seat out of hairy bartender John Marcus' denims. They take off with very oral action, including Viktor slobbering over John's dick and John licking Viktor's feet, plus a hot rimjob by Viktor that has John moaning with pleasure. Following a 69 on top of the bar, John slides into Viktor's hairless butt missionary, and the fucking is beautifully captured in a shot from overhead (plus, John continues to suck on Viktor's toes while he's plowing the muscle stud). They reverse roles, and it's John whose ass is planted atop Viktor's raging hardon near the end of the scene. Viktor's sculpted torso gleams with sweat as he shoots, blasting his cum all over John's furry body, and they end with a hot lip-lock.
A garage sale unites the next couple, shopper Christian Owen and seller Ty Walker. Christian excuses himself to try on a pair of used jeans, and almost as soon as he gets alone, he starts to jerk off. I've been excited by bargains before, but usually it just means that my charge card gets hot, not my dick. Anyway, Ty notices that Christian is taking a very long time trying on the jeans, and when he goes to investigate, he gobbles down Christian's cock. Christian does the same for Tyler, and then he gives the stud's asshole a loving tongue-job, making Ty beg to be fucked. Christian fucks Ty doggy, and it's kind of interesting to watch the younger, skinnier stud totally slam Ty's more muscular, hunky ass. Ty drenches his lower belly and pubes with a wet messy load at the end, and then Christian blasts off, adding his to the mix, and the two collapse together in a cummy, sweaty heap at the end.
A three-way stars mega-hung Rafael Alencar, mega-hunk Jason Kingsley and mega-bottom Brad Slater as movers who take an unscheduled break when Rafael bends over and splits his jeans. Rafael's beefy booty would probably test the limits of any pair of pants, and the split bares just enough of Rafael's crack that the jeans actually look sexier. Brad and Jason move in on Rafael, and soon Rafael's gorgeous bubble-butt is fully exposed. Jason dives between Rafael's ample cheeks with his tongue while Brad does his best to swallow Rafael's uncut dick. Jason is the lucky recipient of a side-by-side suck-job as Rafael and Brad tongue his uncut meat. Brad then turns in a power bottoming performance that rocks the house, taking turns sitting on Jason and Rafael's dicks, they are balls-to-balls, their dicks upright. Rafael and Jason stand to blow their loads on Brad, leaving his body streaked with lines of cum, and then the hunks move in for a three-way smooch as the scene fades.
Niko's solo is the finale, and as the camera lovingly travels over his near-perfect physique, it occurred to me that he is one of the most photogenic studs I have ever seen. His flawless, unbroken skin, his uncut cock, large but not too large, thick, but not too thick, his handsome face, and his lustrous, shiny mane of brunet locks are all just exquisite. Niko kneels and delivers one last cum- shot, fittingly ending "In the Jeans" with a load that christens his latest acquisition, a pair of brand-new jeans.
DVD features: Chapters; galleries; cast bios (stats and videographies); trailers ("The Boy Has Balls" and "Flesh"); and no regional coding (playable worldwide).
A DVD Review by Martin Cox
If you're one of those guys who gets tumescent just looking at a hunk who has poured himself into a pair of skin-tight jeans that hug the ass, snuggle the calves, squeeze the thighs and lovingly mold a bulging basket, then you won't want to miss director Mike Donner's recently released homage to denim for Studio 2000, In the Jeans.
Donner, for many years a house director at All Worlds Video, has recently branched out, and one of his first independent efforts is this 10-man, 90-minute production. The union of Donner with Studio 2000 would seem to be a perfect match -- both have long been exemplars of melding story and sex in their films. Here, however, they have been content not to play to their strengths but to create a quick little four-loop film built around the age-old device of a masturbating soloist conjuring up the various explicit sequences.
Donner's In the Jeans (not to be confused with Forum Studio's 1993 programmer of the same title) opens as the soloist/narrator returns home from a shopping spree with bags full of new jeans. A tall, handsome newcomer with a muscular physique and a mane of long, raven hair, he is billed here only as Niko. He tells us straight off in thickly accented tones that are at once bedroom-sexy and often difficult to understand, that this article of clothing is internationally popular and that all over the world "people would do anything for a pair of jeans." He is easy on the eyes in an Armani model sort of way but not the ideal choice to handle the dialogue given him.
The first loop to explore the power of denim features a pair of roommates (lean Jason Crew and stocky Jason Harley). Crew is about to throw away a stack of old jeans but hesitates when he comes upon a pair of well-worn cutoffs. When Harley suggests that he probably can't get into them anymore, Crew promptly strips and proves him wrong. The sight turns them both on, and soon they are rolling across the bed, giggling and groping with the easy familiarity of boyfriends who already know what they are getting into. Both are adept cocksuckers, but it is the vibrant Crew with his infectious smile, easy-listening raunch rap and natural intensity who remains the center of attention throughout.
After waltzing through mutual rounds of kissing, rimming and sucking, Crew (sporting several tattoos, a farmer's tan and a sheen of sweat) soon flips his roomie over to piston him in both missionary and sidesaddle positions. Things really heat up, however, when they shift roles. Crew with his long legs in the air and his fist pounding his own ample dick, simply revels in being plowed, constantly demanding (with almost fanatic fervor), "Fuck my ass! Fuck me harder." For variety they shift to a bouncing lap fuck but soon revert to missionary style for Crew to shoot off arrows of cum while plugged. He reminds us of both mainstream star Colin Farrell and mid-'90s porn star Rick Thomas, and thanks largely to him, this is the best scene in the film.
Back in the narrator's bedroom, Niko is now playing with his still-hidden hard-on. Then in a nice bit of prickteasing, he turns away from the camera and eases his pants down to reveal his chiseled buttocks as the action dissolves into the next scene at a local bar. There, the first image we glimpse is that of a most bodacious butt stretching its dusty denim casing. It belongs to John Marcus, an attractively average Joe who is soon noticed by the barechested bartender, Viktor Perseo, the top button of whose jeans is already popped for action. Without a word, he moves to Marcus to rip open the jeans. Unruffled, Marcus begins to lick Perseo's superbly sculpted physique, but in no time, Perseo takes over, kissing, cock-and-ball-sucking, fingering and tongue-fucking his willing prey.
Soon the tables are turned as Perseo sprawls on a nearby barstool for Marcus to slather and suck his cock (and his boots) before they segue nicely into a 69 on the bar. There Marcus also treats the bartender to a heated ass-eating session and before long buries his dick between his partner's granite glutes. In time, they again shift gears in this arousing flip-flop, and Marcus skewers himself on Perseo's ever-rigid, ever-upright cock for a grinding, bouncing lap fuck followed by a shift back to missionary position in which Perseo drills Marcus to orgasm before unloading his own copious spooge-spill.
Now admiring himself in front of a mirror, Niko yields to his own narcissism as the scene dissolves to the next loop. At a yard sale, cute, spikey-haired, ruddy-cheeked Christian Owen strolls up and discovers a pair of jeans that are "just my size!" The seller, Ty Walker, a blond all-American-boy (whose several tattoos work against his image), suggests he step inside to try them on and the boyish Owen heads into a handy bedroom. He gets his clothes off but not the second-hand jeans on before he is sprawled across the bed, rubbing the denim all over his body, his thick, tumescent cock rapidly rising. Of course, in walks Walker, a knowing smile on his face, and when the shameless Owen seems unperturbed, he dives to suck the kid's precociously hefty cock.
Both are energetic, inventive cocksuckers, but the scene really begins to simmer when Walker interrupts Owen's rimming of him to inquire, "You want to fuck that ass?" and hands him a condom. Owen is a speedy top and Walker clearly a veteran bottom. With teeth-grinding intensity, Owen slams into him first in a double-time doggie fuck, then missionary style. And all the while the sweat-soaked Walker exhorts him to greater heights, demanding to be fucked harder. At last, Walker brings himself off with both hands, and Owen sprays a copious splatter shot all over everything.
Now actively stroking his still-to-be-viewed dick in his jeans, Niko points out, "The fit and the look is enough to make you shoot a load in your pants!" -- and a lecherous wink bounces us into the final loop, which is set in a faux-Tudor mansion where three blue-collar types are unloading cartons of household goods. They are an older guy with greased back hair, Jason Kingsley (not to be confused with the blond Adonis in Kristen Bjorn films who uses the same name), a streaky-haired cutie with a backward baseball cap, Brad Slater, and that big-dicked Spaniard, Rafael Alencar, who starts the action by bending over abruptly and in the process splitting the ass of his pants wide open.
Before they get around to the anal action, everyone gets a mouthful of everyone else's big, uncut dick and an assfull of tongue. The single-positioned fucking finds Alencar and Kingsley lying opposite each other on the floor, crotch to crotch, and Slater squats over them to impale himself first on one and then the other, moving easily back and forth between the two towering erections. A dissolve takes us to the conclusion, in which all three pound off propulsive money shots, the best of which is Alencar's soaring cum-arc.
In the Jeans ends with Niko face down on his jeans-strewn bed. He rolls over to reveal, finally, his own impressive erection, and his inevitable jerkoff and syrupy money shot all over his jeans is as much for the camera as for himself. Then he tells the viewer, "Got to break them in to get a perfect fit -- right?" Right.
- Jerry Douglas