Jules Jordan's Buttworx

Jules Jordan loves to tease -- Andrew Marvell's mistress would have told him to hurry the hell up -- and he gives you the whole ride on every disc in every scene. Buttworx has six full scenes, three each on two discs (the whole project clocks in at just under four hours, not including special features). As usual, he takes his time and shows off each girl in every possible angle; many of the scenes include outdoor shots and a lot of strutting around the yard and the pool before the action begins in the house, and you never get the sense that Jules is paying by the hour, or eager to get the next girl up on the block.

There are certain things you can count on in a Jordan effort -- the tease is one of them, but there are other hallmarks that guarantee you a good time while watching them. Happy, smiling girls is one -- all the women in his movies look like they're genuinely having a good time. Jules evinces a genuine love for women that comes across in every single frame -- he manages to be dirty without being crude, making gonzo that doesn't descend into the abusive frat-boy tactics that so many filmmakers of his generation are resorting to. However, more importantly, he is also respectful without being slavish, worshipping the ass (and everything else) without putting the girls on a pedestal -- or at least not a pedestal that's too high to climb up onto so he can fuck them silly. The flirting and byplay with Julia Bond and Maya Hills in particular seems genuine and affectionate.

Another hallmark of Jules' work is clean, clear lighting and sound. He doesn't mess around with a porn soundtrack, preferring to let you hear the natural sounds, whether it's the waterfall in his backyard or the moaning of whatever starlet he's despoiling at the moment.

Buttworx is no departure from any of Jordan's usual techniques. The six girls are happy, cheerful little trollops who all seem delighted to be where they are, doing what they're doing.

Julia Bond is a little chubbier than she used to be, with a couple more tattoos than she used to have back when she was brand new. She's lost none of her charm, though -- if anything, the extra flesh just makes her cuter. She drops by Jules's house - ostensibly to do a little sunning by the pool, but the cheeky repartee between her and Jules makes it clear that she's not really interested in tanning. What she is interested in is a little anal sex (a new wrinkle in her career), but, true to form, it takes more than a little while to get there - it's 10 minutes into a 40-minute scene before he so much as touches her. Jules follows her around slavering for a while, inside and out, and finally gets down to business. When they do get to the fucking, it's still unhurried and leisurely, with none of the frantic haste that characterizes so much gonzo. They work their way through positions and activities -- no flying V's or rusty trombones, just the standard complement of things most regular people do when they're getting it on. Both of them sound like they really like what they're doing, and even the anal is kind of sweet. JJ pops on her back, a welcome departure from the obligatory facial.

Annette Schwarz is a blonde German squirter who's "waiting for Jules," strolling around his pool and displaying her ass -- nice, but not epic -- for nobody in particular. There's not a lot of pretense about why she's there or anything, and Jules doesn't bother with any kind of plot -- just tells her she's an Amazon (she's 5'11") and sets sail right away. The tease is shorter this time - six minutes or so -- and Steve Holmes appear to get the action going. He's a German, too, but in spite of their common origins, or perhaps because of them, he skips right over the scene they were supposed to be playing (apparently there was a script after all but he ignored it) and climbs right aboard. Annette demonstrates a commendable facility for deep-throating, and manages at one point to get Holmes' cock AND balls in her mouth at the same time, which looks like it's not all that great for Steve but is impressive. He sucks her toes, she licks his ass, and they carry on through all the standard positions, both vaginally and anally. She's a gusher, too, a talent that she doesn't really exploit here but which makes her wet as all get-out. Steve eventually pops on her face while she wrings another wet one out of her pussy.

Alexis Texas, another blonde, comes over to Jules's in jeans, a session by the pool in mind. She doesn't look spectacular at first, but when she retires to the bathroom and emerges in a strappy little thong bikini, she suddenly appears much more ass-intensive than before. The transformation is, in fact (as Jules puts it), outrageous. Her ass is a considerably more shapely article than it appeared to be in the jeans; even knowing how much help it gets from the heels and the contours of the swimsuit, it's impressive. After nearly ten minutes of tease, Jules gets into the action for his second scene of the disc. He puts all the usual energy into his globes-trotting, and Alexis makes appreciative sounds for him all the way through. Once again the sex is intimate (for gonzo) and engaging. Again, Jules chooses to make the pop on her ass and back, and films her walking through his house afterward with the evidence on display.

Maya Hills is a exotic blonde, a giggly Siberian &egrav;migr&egrav; with a pretty, open face and a nice, curvy figure. She's been here long enough to have what sounds like a straight-up California accent, and she spends most of her time laughing or saying "oh yeah" in pretty much exactly the same tome every time. With someone less ingenuous, it might get annoying, but she wears it well enough. Jules spends 12 minutes loving her up with the camera, watching her strut and then play with some toys, before the doorbell rings and Jean Val Jean arrives to talk about some editing issues, about which he immediately forgets when faced with Maya's ass. Maya, as much as anybody else on the DVD, likes it in the ass -- she's got a couple of toys in her ass before Jean even shows up, and claims to love it. She shows every sign of actually loving it, too; she's gorgeous to watch and takes it in the ass like a champ. Her only flaw, a minor one, is that her verbal repertoire is very limited. When she's talking and flirting, she's adorable, but she's like a broken record once the fucking starts. Alone among the girls, though, she takes an anal creampie.

Gina Lynn, the one legitimate superstar on the DVD, looks as good as ever -- nearly eight years in the business has left her trim, tan and still looking fresh. Jules parades her around the backyard for a while, posing her in the great outdoors. She is nearly wearing a pink knit dress that does the same thing for her ass that it does for her tits, showing off a stunning d&eacut;colletage. She's always good to watch, and the blowjob she delivers to Jules is up to her usual fine standards, energetic and passionate. The fucking is good, too, although she doesn't ever end up taking it in the ass. She talks a good game and lets Jules toss a little salad, but all the sex is vag-only -- no big loss, and it doesn't stop Jules from popping so energetically that he ends up coming on her ass even though she is kneeling in front of him and facing him -- he gets there by shooting over her head, which should tell you something about both the power of the shot and the extent of her ass.

Nikara is a very light-skinned black girl, and she and her ass star in Buttworx' final scene. If the movie has a clinker, this one is it -- it depends on what you want to see. Nikara is cute enough, she has a nice rack, and she's paired with Jean Val Jean, who worked out fine when he was on top of Maya Hills in the fourth scene. The thing about this one is that it leans a little too far into the kind of hardcore territory that Jordan usually flits with but rarely enters. Val Jean stuffs Nikara's mouth with a pair of giant anal beads, then fucks it, making her drool and slobber, makes her say she's a dirty slut, fucks her ass while she's still got her fingers in it, grinds his cock into her mouth and stretches out her cheek in that inexplicable thing porn guys do that can't possibly feel good, and generally whoops it up in a gagging, choking finale to what was otherwise a relatively relaxed movie. It's not even that Nikara doesn't seem to enjoy it -- she does, right up until the pop - but the tone is different, harsher. Not bad, just harder. Like I said, it depends on what you want to see.

Except for Gina Lynn and Alexis Texas, these girls don't really have world-class back ends, but the title isn't about bigness or roundness, just Butts, and that's what Jordan delivers. A couple of choices are interesting -- Lynn's non-anal scene, the sudden foray into rougher gonzo with Nikara -- but none of the scenes is a brick in any way, taken on its own merits. Buttworx is solid, masterful porn by a director with a distinctive, pleasing style -- Jordan is at the top of his game, and looks to remain there.   Collapse.

Jules Jordan loves to tease -- Andrew Marvell's mistress would have told him to hurry the hell up -- and he gives you the whole ride on every disc in every scene. Buttworx has six full scenes, three each on two discs (the whole project clocks in at just under four hours, not including special features). As usual, he takes his time and shows off each girl in every possible angle; many of the scenes include outdoor shots and a lot of strutting around the yard and the pool before the action begins in the house, and you never get the sense that Jules is paying by the hour, or eager to get the next girl up on the block.... Read the Full Review!