High Tide

High Tide earned a perfect five-A rating from AVN on its release in 1997. Perhaps the most amazing scene is the beach sex homage to From Here To Eternity, with Matthew Anders and Jeremy Penn necking as the surf crashes around them. Who needs Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr? This is as thrillingly romantic, and the guys create sex history by making love on the black sand beach. Anders starts this whole story off by a knock on the noggin that triggers a past he had lost after suffering amnesia seven years earlier. Now he has a girlfriend and finds himself living a normal life - but anyone who has Chi Chi LaRue lingering in their flashbacks can't be normal. His memory washes back in small waves. Hawaii beckons Anders, and so do men. It's not only blowjobs by scenic waterfalls and sexy underwater nude play that make this dvd. It's the hot, nasty sex. Mike Brandon, Brian Cruise and Sebastian Cruz stuff Anders in a truck and rough him up before making "the fag" pay by stuffing their huge cocks into him. They've got the meat to do some serious tonsil-tickling, and this is no delicate sex in the back of their car. Of course, these despicable homophobes with monster dicks have to jack off for each other to see who gets hard first before they "teach the fag a lesson." Yes, there's humour too. In the kink department, seven bronze gods go at it by a pool. Travis Wade shoves a fist-sized buttplug in Kristian Brooks' hungry hole, while super bottom Christopher Scott takes an arm-sized dildo eased in by Jake Andrews. Then, something you don't see much of: four balls are stuffed into Anthony Shaw's willing ass by Rod Barry, who torments the ecstasy out of his lover by pulling them out ever so slowly. It's a poolside orgy for the history books, ending with a fireworks display of cum shots. A maturity in storytelling is also evident here, as Anders rediscovers his gay past. What better way to wake up from a fog than with studly Jeremy Penn, who shyly rehearses his line to introduce himself to Anders on the beach? But instead, Penn abandons all caution and throws himself onto the sand and passionately kisses the sunbathing stud. It's very shocking and funny at first, then passionate, then boner-inducing. The colours of the sea, the pastel skies, the powdery surf, and the bubbling white waterfalls are all impressive. Even in the dense rainforest pairing between Michel Lucas and Colby Taylor, it's clear, colourful and sensual. The bottom line - director John Rutherford is a master, Todd Montgomery a superb cameraman, and the cast is full of superstars. But the whole here is definitely greater than the sum of its parts. There no low point. High Tide may spark fantasy and romance in a lot of sex lives, and may also serve as a more powerful Hawaii-magnet than same-sex marriages. Cast: Tom Chase, Matthew Anders, Mike Branson, Jeremy Penn, Travis Wade, Michel Lucas, Brian Cruise, Christopher Scott, Jake Andrews, Sebastian Cruz, Kristian Brooks, Rod Barry, Colby Taylor, Anthony Shaw, Kyle Becker