A mostly passionless collection of four extended scenes with all the required positions, Getting Off With Monique opens with Monique Alexander looking at the camera and announcing that this is her movie as she begins a masturbation sequence. Things get a bit heated when Marco Banderas comes in and she sucks his cock and he licks her pussy, but the fucking lingers way too long before he eventually cums on her tits.

That formula—tease/masturbation/long sex scene—gets boring fast. Renae Cruz sometimes looks heated during her scene with Jerry, as she ably swallows his cock and fucks him nicely, but again, the camera stays too long in every position. Mick Blue bangs Maya Gates in the ass in the best scene of the DVD. And Monique’s cunt-licking, dildo sharing sequence with Carmen McCarthy feels very mechanical ... surprising given Monique’s many terrific girl/girl scenes.

As I’ve said many times before and bears repeating here, longer is not necessarily better. Extended scenes can work if the content remains interesting. To lengthen what are just ordinary sex scenes mutes the eroticism. And these scenes are, frankly, ordinary.