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Clive McLean has been with Hustler for a number of years both as a skilled still photographer and more recently as the videographer behind the company’s most successful video lines. His influences are what define Hustler’s look: pretty young women with great bodies filmed in vivid detail in short, simple scenes that are set up quickly in order to focus on the sex. Barely Legal #12 continues this string of successes by keeping the formula intact. Nothing particularly new here, but overall it’s enjoyable viewing.

Each scene is introduced by a voiceover from the featured actressmore… who sets up the theme. If the video has any real drawback, it’s the quality of acting in the voiceovers. We are supposed to believe this is a "Dear Hustler…" letter revealing some naughty romp this 18 year old (and, of course, they are all 18) has experienced, but it just sounds like a bored actress who’s struggling with the words. Understandably, this is probably the most efficient way to set up a scene so that the exposition gets out of the way, the who, what and where are all set and all we, the audience, need to be concerned about is the how. If you can get past the unemotional and unconvincing sound of the actress’ voices, you can quickly escape into the fantasy of the scene.

The setups in Barely Legal #12 aren’t incredibly original, but they serve their purpose. The first scene has an assistant stylist coming to the rescue of a stylistically inept young rock star during a video shoot. Randy the "rocker" looks like any number of young, buzz-cut boys wandering malls at this very moment, but it’s a stretch of the imagination that he has more star power than a high-school garage-band geek. Once he rises to the challenge (Viagra at such a young age? Maybe he should investigate…), he and Jassie get down to business in the wardrobe room. She’s cute, and the two go through numerous positions before Randy’s inevitable sticky finish on her chin.

The next setups involve a nude model and her artist, "Vietnamese Sleaze" in which a young Vietnamese girl returns home from the U.S. – the film’s only anal scene – and a rooftop screw when a girl demands an impromptu hump from her boyfriend. The last scene, by far the best, is an all-girl threeway featuring Nadia, Bunny Luv and Swan Hope. These three are the best looking in the movie and the scene takes place in the supposed Hustler warehouse in which Bunny and Swan initiate a timid Nadia into the pleasures of girl-girl sex. The scene has a nice progression, and the camera seems to flatter these girls moreso than others in this video. It doesn’t hurt that Bunny Luv (feature of previous Barely Legal videos) looks great in the shortest of short skirts and gets to play herself, the porn starlet, in front of these two admiring "fans." Warning though that the sound is awful, and the opening dialogue will be lost on anyone not cranking the volume or using headphones.

After watching all five scenes, none of them really stood out when all was said and done. It might have something to do with the fact that all of the models come across as ordinary, the kinds of girls who aren’t unattractive but who haven’t really settled into themselves and are just sort of cute in the most generic way. Porn stars are porn stars for a reason. While it’s fun to watch newcomers get naked and do their thing, it’s all too easy to compare them to the big names and see how those women become so popular in the business. Once the novelty wears off from seeing fresh faces, it’s much more entertaining to see strong, sexy women who are intensely into the passion of intense lovemaking. Another factor is that the video quality, acting and editing all add up here to come out just better than home movies. There doesn’t seem to be that much attention paid to environment or making sure the very best scene is the one committed to the final film.

The DVD has the usual extras including scene access, a photo gallery and previews. These previews are also a little disappointing in that some barely scratch the surface of the movie advertised or are merely collections of stills. With Hustler’s extensive video library, it seems that a proper video trailer isn’t too much to ask for. Case in point is the slapdash trailer for Pornovision, a video which I reviewed here most favorably. This terrific video is so rich with great visuals and sounds that it deserved something better than the disjointed, brief glimpse offered on this DVD. The behind the scenes video about Clive McLean is one of the highlights though if only because the editing is snappy and most of the scenes feature the very attractive and very sexy Jessiree from Barely Legal #3.

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English

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