In "Straight Up: Getting Straight II," director Derek Kent has the luck to work with a top-notch cast, however, they are just as lucky to work with him, a master who creates each scene here as its own little bit of wonder, complete and satisfying on its own, not to mention a fine fit for what surrounds it. The video works very hard to keep its main star, D.C. Chandler, as in demand as possible, but also creates a new one with the stunning Braeden Casey.

Tall, dark and handsome D.C. Chandler returns to his resort-like home, a temporary home for troubled men. As he shows up, Stonie is also arriving, presumably to see a friend who turns out to be gone at the time. Robert Harvey invites him to stay and D.C. shows him to a room, understanding the whole time that perhaps there is more to Stonie's story. Stonie's room connects to the room next to it through a bathroom, and he hears muffled sex sounds, so of course he goes to investigate. He finds blond Trent Atkins, tiny, muscular and absolutely adorable, playing with long lean handsome Nick Capra. The chemistry pours off these two immediately, and they rattle off the video's most energetic scene. Trent squats on all-fours to gobble up Nick's impossibly long dick, which he does with full head-churning gusto. His desire to take it as far as possible is fine with Nick, who face-fucks him eagerly. Tall Nick has to get on the floor to be at the level of Trent's cock, which he blows for a considerably long and more exciting time. Full of hand and speed, he inhales Trent like he's life's necessary air. After he's used nearly every blowjob technique available, he rolls Trent over for some rimming, slapping the pert ass and flicking loudly with his tongue. When Nick finally fucks Trent, the whole bed rocks from the get-go. Their very present energy spins off majestically as Nick makes sure to insert every last inch into Trent's little butt. As Trent moans loudly, Nick ratchets up the speed and fucks him with scorching power. The camera comes very close to their faces and the action, making it all very involving. They make it to a sideways-fuck without Nick pulling out, and then in one graceful move, Trent hops off the bed onto his head so Nick can fuck him from above. Nick seems to love this position most, giving Trent his best yet. Nick doesn't even stop hammering when Trent blasts a load down to his own face, but finally pulls out to release a massive shot of his own.

After tearing up the place in that scene, Trent and Nick join the rest of the cast members for dinner. But, two of the guys are missing. The first turns out to be Brett DiMineo, looking commanding and extra blond here, who has gone to visit Danny Lopez up at the stables. Danny has too much work to do to play around, but when Brett offers to help, Danny opens up his lips for a kiss and things take off. They kiss intently, taking off each other's clothes to reveal Danny's rock-hard body. Naturally, the über-talented Danny falls to his knees to suck down long-donged Brett. But, the hugeness doesn't give Danny the slightest pause. He's able to blow down to the hairline, with his customary big-eyed spark. Forget the heat of the last scene -- this one is dependent on nothing but taking care of a huge cock. Danny gets in a lot of sucking time, and all of it dazzling (including some close-ups of deep-throating that are insanely hot), before Brett plops him on the hay to give some back. Brett gulps away admirably, doing something more sensual than Danny's carnal sucking. Brett eats a little ass and fingers it to get Danny's eyes rolling back in his head. When Brett fucks him, he's strangely tentative, but not out of line with the scene. Instead of fast-paced fucking, he opts for something slow, so we can watch his entire dick disappear into Danny's butt. Danny then sits on Brett for a while, taking even more than he did in the other position. Brett cums on his leg and then Danny has a strong blast.

Stonie goes up to the video room to see the other missing dinner participant, Jason Sizemore. Jason is busy watching Rick Chase and Brad King in a classic scene from Studio 2000's "A Body to Die For," and throughout the entire scene, no matter how hot things get, he almost never takes his eyes off the screen. It makes for an eerie scene, but actually adds to the sexiness of it, making for something anonymous and dirtier than we find elsewhere. Jason is already naked when Stonie gets there, stroking his foot-long cock teasingly. Stonie regards him like a lost lamb chop and finally sidles over to him. Jason isn't paying him much notice, so Stonie decides to put his dick in his mouth. That gets a nod from Jason. Stonie bobs his head around on the cock, taking whatever he can, and then finally Jason breaks his icy stare long enough to blow Stonie. Jason is able to deep-throat him easily, and he's fairly focused about his sucking, because now it's Stonie transfixed on the intercut movie. When the movie they are watching switches to fucking, so do the boys. Stonie takes it doggy from Jason, who is able to shove up the chute with surprising facility. Stonie's ass provides no friction as Jason thrusts into it fully and rather harshly. Stonie then sits on Jason's massiveness, both of them staring nowhere but straight ahead, though Stonie has enough ability in him to show the viewer a yummy talented ride. Stonie has a fine shot and then Jason lets off a series of strong streams right at Stonie's stomach. The lack of chemistry here seems to be the point, and somehow, it works. The combination of Jason's scary silence and grand cock make for a hell of a partner to Stonie's more friendly over-achieving player.

Hairy Parker Williams is flopping around in the pool, when magnificent full-haired Robert Harvey comes ambling over in his tightie-whities. Parker wants to have sex and triumphs over Robert's trepidations. They make out like the oldest of friends, on the mouth, in the armpits, all over the chests. Parker gets into Robert's pants rather quickly, sucking him off on the side of the pool. Parker, the most aggressive player so far, plays his part to the hilt, gobbling up all of Robert's cock, making sure to bury his face in Robert's pubes as often as possible. Once Robert has had all he can stand of this excellent treatment, he hops in the water, backs up Parker and turns on him. Robert turns in as sweet a blowjob as Parker's was masculine and wanting. Parker obviously delights in being sucked even more than Robert did, and it's not very long before they hop up on a table, kissing the entire time, and rub their dicks together. Pretty-boy Robert's smooth chest gets a nice slobber from Parker before the latter heads off to the land of ass. Robert's hole is deep and inviting, and Parker licks and fingers as much as he can, swinging his body to the time of his exploratory finger. After a super amount of finger action, with Robert up on the table perpendicularly, Parker finally fucks him (he had to, the tension was getting unbearable!). Parker shoves his whole dick in with no hands at all, plowing ahead at a nice even pace the entire time. The two of them have a nice eye-contacting chemistry, but Parker never breaks his stride, amazingly tempered the whole time. Robert's pillowy cheeks swallow Parker's cock so sexily, whether in this missionary position or in a quicker missionary. Robert cums being fucked and then Parker has as sloppy release on Robert's leg.

Cook Braeden Casey is baking a cake when D.C. Chandler comes into the kitchen to nab him. Braeden lets D.C. lick icing off his fingers and then they finally kiss. Once they take off their clothes, the camera hits Braeden's body and stays there for a good long time, often at the expense of the more established D.C. Braeden has giant square pecs with huge round nipples, abs that go on wider than a city block and big thick legs. He also has a light-complexioned face and big lips with a boyish innocent look (a look that will be shattered by his abilities). D.C. frees a big suckable cock from its underwear and goes to town on lucky Braeden. D.C. adopts a wickedly fast-paced style, sucking comfortably and rapidly all the way to the base. Shown from underneath, it's delicious and wet, with Braeden every-so-gently thrusting at his partner, more than happy to take it. Finally, D.C. stands up and flashes his beautiful slightly hairy body at the camera, his long and thick cock a treat to behold. Braeden looks at it and proves himself an immediate pro. He works down the thing with total desire to hit the bottom, and he actually does now and then. He excels with hand work and slurps in both balls at the same time. They retire to the bed, rubbing their cocks together and lightly touching, turning into a friendly fingering of D.C.'s ass. When D.C. puts his finger in, Braeden clamps around it, his dick fully hard, and a big smile appears on his lips. After a while of the teasing fingers, it's definitely time for the hard dick. D.C. rather tentatively inserts it, and from the onset, this fuck has something of the first bloom of love to it. Braeden's smile turns into a heavenly show of big teeth and D.C. seems so impressed by his partner. D.C. is very nice to him throughout the fuck, not shoving into him as we know he can do, but rather letting Braeden impress all by himself and his talents. Braeden drips out a load of pre-cum, which he licks up seductively. Braeden sits and rides on D.C., taking him to the bone of D.C.'s pelvis. D.C. reclines on his arms and let's his partner take over, so fucking hot in the most innocent of ways. Braeden achieves major heights here, almost letting the cock fall out at times he gets so high. Braeden drops not one, but two loads as he's being fucked, and then jacks off D.C. to climax.

So often scenes that are filmed to be the wow of the video can be upstaged by other scenes, but not here. The climactic Braeden-D.C. scene is simply grand. Braeden is a major star in the works, and D.C., a proven talent, works him over like the equal he is. However, theirs is not the only fetching scene here. In fact, there's not a mediocre scene of the five. The energy of this story comes spilling out in the first moments of the video when Trent and Nick attack each other, and it survives through the lazy-day pool antics of Robert and Parker, picking up steam in between, D.C.'s final climax, which is huge, is like the climax of the whole video. I won't say if I made it all the way to that point, but I dare you to try! It won't be easy.

DVD features: Digitally remastered, no regional coding (playable worldwide), stereo sound, slide-show galleries (Brett and D.C.), a chapter of behind-the-scenes bloopers, an easy-to-navigate menu and trailers for other Studio 2000 productions.

A VHS + DVD Review by Brent Blue