Do you get the idea that gayporn producers are beginning to strain just a wee bit to come up with these fresh new titles? Actually, Giants: It's So Much Larger Than Life (a mouthful, both figuratively andliterally) almost does a disservice to this fine and sometimes surprisingly sensitive John Summers production, which might as easily have been called something like Buddies. Okay, make that Huge, Throbbing Buddies.

The action hinges on a structural device as old as Scheherazade. A hunky group of college-age buddies get together for an intimate dinner. The host, Jeff Converse, then maneuvers his friends into a game where each must describe his first homosexual encounter in graphic detail, even if he's never had one. The end result is what Converse had in mind all along-a free-wheeling orgy among friends.

What's really unusual about Giants is the wall-to-wall narration, which introduces the characters, explains the action, and follows the sex right up to orgasm. Credit Summers' sensitivity to character and nuance that the ever-present voice almost never becomes cloying, and actually adds a fresh dimension to Giants by stimulating the ear as much as the eye. The cast is top-notch; pacing and camera work, as well as sets and music score (credited to Summers himself) are quite up to this veteran producer's high (excuse me, huge) standards.