Taking a post-modern spin on the labors of Hercules, AVN Award-winner Jonathan Morgan lends his usual comic wit to the tale. Evan Stone plays the brawny, though not as brainy, son of Zeus and Randy Spears as his sidekick. Besides the usual host of labors, the pair fuck their way across antiquity, something that could hardly be considered work.

The transfer is top-notch, and the two-disc set offers a plethora of extras, fitting when considering the legendary nature of the story's source. The extras include biographies, commentaries, deleted scenes, casting footage, outtakes, interviews, an alternate ending and a video diary of the shooting.

Pre-nom Best DVD and Best DVD Extras.

The labors of Hercules are the focal point for this clever video, with Evan Stone as the titular hero and Randy Spears as his sidekick Theseus. Mike Horner plays the obligatory smoking-jacketed narrator, whose pronouncements are often rebutted by Hera, played by Julia Ann.

Anachronistic humor is the common denominator here, with Hera puffing on a cigarette and Spears pulling a can of spray insecticide out of his singlet to shoo away a bug that turns out to be wood nymph Lezley Zen. Occasional side interviews, with characters identified by a CNN-style bottom-of-the-frame identifying title, also add to the time warping.

The plot, such as it is, revolves around Hera's attempt to get Hercules killed during the labors, even tipping Hippolyte (Sydnee Steele) that Hercules is there to swipe her belt and letting Herc and his men get attacked by a mob of pissed-off Amazons. The final battle between Hercules and Hera, on a game show hosted by a red-tuxedoed Hades (played by Joel Lawrence), seems to be a new addition to the tried-and-true myths.

Those who are indifferent to the time-bending and the fidelity to the source material (or lack thereof) will be pleased by the eight sex scenes, including a large scale orgy featuring a number of unbilled veteran performers, and the seduction of Amazon queen Steele by Hercules. Technically excellent, with letterboxed videography by Jake Jacobs and François Clouzot (pre-nom) and fine art direction by Rod Hopkins (pre-nom). Pre-noms also to Evan Stone and Julia Ann for Best Actor and Best Actress, Mike Horner for Non-Sex Role, and Randy Spears for Supporting Actor.