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Taken, Down Under
Rating: 3 Stars
Falcon/Jocks Studios. Directed by Chi Chi LaRue. Videography and editing by Max Phillips. Starring Spike, Matt Spencer, Dylan Reece, Clint Williamson, Paul Miller, Stephen Owens, Jake Slade, Josh Stone, Josh Kane, Craig Everest, Mike Kendall, and Ian Curtis.
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Spike, a 1998 Chi Chi LaRue discovery, is pleasant to look at, and shows traces of acting ability. In clothes, he resembles that Warren Berlinger genus of actor indigenous to '50s and '60s movies like Teen Rebel. When his clothes come off, the source of his professional name becomes starkly apparent. His ejaculations have such force that you can picture droplets of his semen orbiting the earth.

In Taken, Down Under, Spike arrives in Sydney, Australia after a 15-hour flight from San Francisco. Left organizationally challenged by a failed relationship, he's toting little more than the clothes on his back. We learn in mind-congealing voice-over that his only luggage is a carry-on bag, he has no hotel reservation, and he comes armed only with the telephone number of an Internet acquaintance who doesn't know he's coming. Calling his Australian chat-mate from a public phone, he drops his bag-- containing passport, money, and return ticket-- on the ground as if daring someone to walk off with it, which Dylan Reece quickly does. All of which suggests that in addition to owning one of the most attractive javelin-shaped penises on earth, the Spike depicted here has got the intellect of a koala.

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No matter. Everywhere he goes in search of Reece, who mistakenly switched his own gym bag with Spike's, the people he meets are much more interested in having sex than in discussing quantum physics. Reece's appointment book leads Spike to a couple who put him up for the night and spy on his evening jerkoff session; a randy photo shoot aboard a boat; a sex party; and Reece himself. The sex has that unmistakable Chi Chi LaRue switched-on élan, particularly in Spike's floating three-way with Josh Kane and Stephen Owens, and in his inevitable coupling with Reece, a radiantly depraved Aussie bottom he has memorably topped at least once before, in Hotel California.