"Brad's Buddies" isn't a flick about friends who get together for a road trip. Oh, no. In fact, it's about the highly competitive cutthroat world of L.A.'s escorting scene. Brad's Buddies is a popular establishment, rivaled only by Peter's Pals. Between the two of them, they happen to employ some of the hottest porn stars in the biz.
Tom Katt, looking so big he's going to need a parking space for each arm soon, and still so damn cute, has been with Brad for a while. At a pride parade one day, he spots the super cute Trent Austin, who has a smile that could sell whatever you want people to buy, and aims to recruit him for the service. So, he takes him into his limo and tries to talk business, but Trent is only interested in some fucking around. Back at Tom's hotel room is Scott Bradley, a tall blond, and the three get busy. Scott does the greatest amount of blowjobbing, having a meal on Tom's stout cock and Trent's long one. After Scott has his fill of both of them, he centers himself around Trent face-fucking him so Tom can rim his behind. Big Tom gets himself down in there orally, and fiery Trent smiles a lot at the other boys and steals the scene. Scott then gets thrusted from both ends as Trent continues and Tom fucks him. Tom is sweet about it, giving a nice easy-to-look-at fuck while not messing up the rhythm of anything else going on. Scott gets to ride bubbly Trent next, and Scott shows his stripes in this segment. Trent does a double-fisted jack-off, followed by a good one from Tom and then a stunner, almost missed by an unsuspecting camera, from Scott. Needless to say, Trent finds a new home among Brad's Buddies and dumps his old pimp, the angry scowling Peter (David Forest in a fun little cameo).
Jason McCain is another one of Brad's guys, but when Brad calls his home to book him, Jason's zealous boyfriend, Dane Brando, snarls at Brad that Jason no longer works for him. Jason comes home very incensed about this and aims to tame Dane by sex. Jason, a handsome brunet sporting a thick silver necklace, is a good match for the leaner, curly-haired Dane. Jason is able to subdue him very easily, and it only takes seconds for Dane to rip Jason's cock out of his pants. Dane proceeds to please Jason with a luscious gulping blowjob, never tiring and never stopping, obviously impressing Jason. For a brief while, Jason bends over Dane to make it a 69, still aware enough to thrust into Dane's very talented mouth. For a second, Jason tries to taunt Dane by not fucking him, but they both want it very badly, and when Jason finally slips on a condom, Dane swallows the cock up whole in a supremely easy entry. Jason enthusiastically fucks Dane, no problem plugging him very fully, and Dane proves himself the most accessible bottom on the tape. When Jason turns Dane over for a missionary-fuck, both guys really let loose. Jason goes even faster, so in a zone that he plants his mouth in a suck position on Dane's foot, and Dane takes all he can. Jason pulls out for a neat cum-shot, which Dane admires as "sooooo warm" and then finishes himself off.
Peter is busy working out his war strategy on Brad for pulling Trent over to his cabal (if Peter had recruiters who looked and acted like Tom Katt, guys would be beating down the doors to join), but it's business as usual for lucky Brad. Rod Barry calls and asks for a black guy in a dungeon. After Brad secures a valid credit card, Rod gets just what he wants in the form of a chaps-clad Jeremy Tucker. Jeremy is ordered to lick Rod's nipples gently and then of course Rod makes him beg for his cock. Throughout the scene, Rod will be a total spitfire, obviously getting off on the thought of domination, but Jeremy seems rather bored by the proceedings. As usual, he's professional and talented, but without spark and thus not an equal partner to Rod's ferocious exciting performing. Anyway, Jeremy blows Rod's generous cock for a while, getting about halfway down the cock. Rod then paddles Jeremy's ass a bit (with some good zesty dialogue), blindfolds him and ties him to a wall. In that position, he's bound to encounter Jeremy's humongous dick, which sends most men to their feet, and Rod turns out to be no exception. Rod does a nice job on Jeremy's head, keeping in character by slapping around Jeremy's cock and body while he's blowing. Rod finally sticks his dick into Jeremy, very slowly at first and keeps things light at first. Things improve from a somewhat tame fuck when Jeremy is placed in the sling, giving Rod a chance to smack at him a little faster. Rod has the well-deserved first cum-shot and then Jeremy summons up the second.
Until the final scene, we only see part of Brad's face, and it's a shame it had to remain hidden, because it belongs to the ever-gorgeous and very buff Adam Hart. Tom brings Trent over to Adam for a test run and Adam finds Trent's blowjob skills are more than fantastic. Trent does a spirited spin on Adam's downward-curving cock and keeps looking up at Adam with porn's sexiest new eyes. Adam can't refuse those, and coos "you are the best" right before the phone rings to interrupt their session. Adam has to dismiss Trent and Tom so Jack Ryan, sporting a goatee and short haircut, can bring dependable sexy-as-fuck friend Rocky by. Without any pleasantries, we find Adam standing between Rocky, whose body here is the thing sculptors are looking for as inspiration and Jack as the two blow him together. Taking long strides up and down, they make a nice team, and then they each get a chance to show what can be done solo. Both Jack and Rocky do excellent work on Adam's dick. Rocky then rims Adam, getting lost in the meaty muscular cheeks, and Jack continues to blow. This position is soon replaced by Jack blowing Rocky sucking Adam. Both active guys seem to take this as a cue to really kick the scene into overdrive and Adam loves it all. Rocky takes over the scene by sucking Jack and Adam together. Now that's a whole lot of cock, those two. But, Rocky is quietly up to the task. The fucking starts with Adam taking Jack, while Rocky provides a dick for Jack to suck on the other end. Adam turns in another of the video's very simple agreeable fucks, rather docile but very watchable. Perhaps because he's staring directly ahead at Rocky, eventually Adam opens things up for a harder fuck and is then replaced by spirited fucker Rocky. Rocky is in fine shape as he sprints in and out of Jack's ass. This of course causes Jack to toss his load quickly, followed by a game one from Rocky. Adam has the final word with a dazzler that is aimed at Jack's face but squirts way past it ultimately. Adam offers Rocky a job, but Rocky says simply, "I work for myself." However, when Rocky leaves, he gets into a car with prickly Peter and produces the all important Brad's Buddies Rolodex. When Adam discovers the thievery, he doesn't seem too upset. He vows vengeance, or at the very least a plot for a sequel.
Most of the guys on this tape are part of the Forest Men stable, and it ain't because they are slouches in the porn department. You don't find better working vets than Adam Hart and Tom Katt, joined by such sturdy boys as Jack Ryan and Rocky. If Trent Austin emerges as the easiest star, he's been doing that a lot this year, so he's had practice. He's absolutely delicious. But, he and the rest are folded into an amiable plot, with simple concise direction. Without any real frills, the sex is the obvious benchmark here, and the guys all perform admirably and engagingly.
A Video Review by Brent Blue
The infighting between two rival escort agencies provides the narrative thread on which are hung four and a quarter sex scenes in Brad'$ Buddie$ , the first release from the newly formed Forest Films. Following in the footsteps of many other mainstream talent brokers, David Forest (uber-agent to the gay adult industry) has here shifted into the role of producer, utilizing many of the men in his own stable of skin stars. The resultant production is slickly photographed and, with a notable exception or two, arousingly performed by a beefcake cast that is always easy on the eyes.
This comic tale of the Play for Pay Set begins at the West Hollywood Gay Pride Parade, where veteran performer Tom Katt sets out to lure a new, young hottie (Trent Austin) away from opposing agency Peter's Pals to come work for Brad's Buddies. Soon, the two sex workers head for an elegant hotel room to play. There, blond Scott Bradley is waiting. The ensuing threeway simmers nicely, but most of the heat is provided by Austin and Bradley, for Katt has become more porcine than ever, sporting double chins and love handles. Although his cock and sexual skills remain strong, we suspect that the viewer's focus will stay largely on the two youths. Both topman Austin and bottom boy Bradley are joyously uninhibited sexualists who dance into the ring like contenders, effortlessly strutting their stuff and outshining the aging champ.
The sequence is studded with kissing and sucking by all three, and a nifty round of rimming by Katt. (The vivacious Austin is especially impressive as he face-fucks Bradley.) In the anal portion of the bout, both Katt and Austin plow Bradley, but Katt's performance has a been-there-done-that air about it, while Austin's drilling of the blond (after an absolutely flawless insertion) is inspired. Three equally copious money shots conclude the scene, and Austin agrees to come to work for Brad's Buddies.
In the second vignette, Jason McCain, another of Brad's boys, is called to go out on a job, but the phone is answered by McCain's roommate (Dane Brando), who throws a hissy fit that costs McCain his job and hurtles them into a lovers' spat that quickly turns sexual. Superbutch McCain is as ruggedly handsome as most of the hunks on Baywatch , but his great physique has been severely diminished by too many tattoos, suggesting a street punk more than the glamorous GQ coverboy he could be. Nonetheless, he proves to be a powerful topman with a thick dick that he uses as a weapon in ravishing Brando both orally and anally. (He even slides into a 69 at one point and services his partner with considerable gusto, like a bulldog playing with his favorite bone.) But it is in the fucking that he triumphs, constantly varying his position, escalating the rhythm of his thrusts, and repeatedly pulling out and reinserting his rod in a series of gasp-inducing jabs. Brando, an able receptacle, takes everything McCain can throw into him, and the scene ends with a pair of syrupy money shots.
In the third episode, a Brad's Buddies client calls the agency to order up his fantasy du jour: "A black guy in a dungeon." The client is played by the ever-enticing Rod Barry, the slave by Jeremy Tucker (in full leather regalia). The action is played out in a dimly lit cellar bathed in red light and appointed with a sling/swing, shackles attached to the stone walls and a variety of sex toys. This is the least successful scene of the film, for a variety of reasons. First, neither Barry nor Tucker appears comfortable with the master-slave scenario, and the action seems forced. So does the raunch rap. It's really hard, for example, not to laugh when Barry declares, "I'm going to have my way with you." Second, the videography here is the least imaginative, and the lighting is often too dark to highlight the penetration. Third, the tit-pinching, slapping, paddling and trussing up seem far more awkward than the vanilla fucking and sucking (at which both Barry and Tucker excel). Finally, both performers have intermittent erection-maintenance problems.
In time, Katt brings Austin to the offices of Brad's Buddies, and we meet Brad for the first time. He is played by Adam Hart, who is aging gracefully, though he is now softer, less defined, less bulked up than he was in his glory days. Even so, the scene - the tradey Hart "auditioning" the eager Austin - promises to be the highpoint of the film. Alas, it is not. Barely moments into it - after Hart has briefly squeezed the newcomer's rockhard erection and Austin has barely demonstrated his knack for giving head - the phone rings, and the action is aborted to make way for the next appointment, Jack Ryan and the mononamed Rocky.
The subsequent threeway - Ryan, Rocky and Hart - provides a fitting finale for the film. Both Ryan and Rocky are superlative oralists - sucking, deep-throating and rimming with equal elan - and Hart's cock is up and raring to go. (Hart even kisses Ryan quickly at a couple of points, and when was the last time you saw him do that?) Before the scene is over, both Hart and Rocky have topped Ryan, who proves once again what an awesome bottom he is. And he is the first to explode, while being fucked, all over his own pubes. Soon, Rocky adds his load, a series of whirling streamers, and finally Hart fires off a single fountain of a spurt followed by after-dribbles. It is only later that Hart discovers Rocky, working for the opposition, has stolen his Rolodex.
In addition to its three first-rate sex scenes, Brad'$ Buddie$ also includes several delightful moments of comedy provided by producer Forest himself, in the villainous cameo role of Brad's nemesis, the owner of Peter's Pals. Taking his cue from Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz, Forest chews up the scenery with the best of them and promises that the rivalry will be continued in an upcoming sequel.
- Jerry Douglas
