The four threesome segments making up Vol. 418 resemble a casserole of leftovers.

Part One features Tess, a slightly stocky blonde horndog who's almost cute. On the plus side, she's plenty enthusiastic about devouring studs Bob and George with all the trimmings. Tess, pleasantly vocal throughout, is wetly convincingly licks her juices off their cocks. Alas, this meal is undone by dim lighting and picture quality that looks to be about third generation.

Part Two is a three-way of the two-girl flavor. Tim and pretty brunettes Melissa and Anna enjoy an oral salad, but Melissa's favorite course is a solid, hard fucking. While the action here may be above average amateur fare, the technical quality is not.

Technical quality is downright shoddy in the abbreviated third segment. Flashy, blonde Trixie is semi-vigorous sucking cock in an outdoor Jacuzzi. But just when you're getting used to the radio's stream of late-'70s hits, CUT, and the gang is indoors. The scene ends just as abruptly.

Maybe it's appropriate that when this tape finally gets its technical aspects in order, the sexual heat has been doused. Lighting, camera work and picture quality are far better in Part Four than in the preceding segments, but except for the tape-closing facial, the sex here is lukewarm. It would seem that Ray and Rod would be inspired to lewd heights by Brenda's lithe bod, high heels, shaved box and big (augmented) guns, if not her opening masturbational.

Each part of this video has a trace of good home cooking, but something gets lost in the presentation. Just like leftovers.

At its best, amateur video conveys sexual genuineness. Minus the trappings of more traditional XXX material (silly set-up story, perfunctory sex that can be called "performance" only in the theatric sense, gauche over-dubbed "music," and all the intimacy that can be generated on a soundstage with hot lights, multiple cameras and a full crew milling about), a good amateur tape is a voyeurs eye peek at people really getting it on.

Homegrown Video #419 is what amateur porn is supposed to be.

This installment in the inconsistent Homegrown series comprises three segments, the first one makes this tape special. Shawnee G. and Scotland are an attractive couple whose passionate, sumptuous lovemaking spree ambles through the sunlit rooms of a large house, climaxing in an outdoor Jacuzzi. Along the way they enjoy — truly enjoy —a sweaty, squealing, gasping, butt-slapping, mouth-mashing, splashy-wet variety of sex. Excellent visuals capture hard nipples and dick, shaved pussy and balls, and delicious penetration as our couple goes at it over a bar, in front of bright window overlooking a freeway, and finally outside. Following a fine cum facial, their warm kissing is the natural resolution to such a nakedly heartfelt fuck.

The final portion of this video features Tim and buxom Barbara, who's a good-looking chick in a decidedly trampy way. They enthusiastically engage in a howling, hard hotel room suck and fuck highlighted by good camera work and the enticingly sloppy sounds and sights of flopping tits, slapping bodies and moaning orgasms. A heavy cum shot is sprayed, appropriately, on Barbara's boobs.

Sandwiched between the outstanding first and last segments is Mike and Veronique's standard, stark hotel room clash. Sexually and technically mediocre, it doesn't belong on a tape which otherwise defines the hot intimacy and sexual reality that make amateur video.