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 If, like me, you were disappointed with the sheer sexual monotony of Joe Phillips’ House of Morecock, a series of animated sexual escapades between the series’ randy hero, blond twink Jonas Morecock, and the paranormal monsters he is investigating, you may find Phillips’ follow-up superheroes, Stonewall and Riot, more to your liking. Not that the sex is any less explicit and not that it’s any less relentless, but, in the context of an hour-long fuckfest with superior animation, it’s decidedly more crotch-moistening. After all, the heroes and the bevy of supervillains are all as cute as a button.
Dr. Von Fockencock has invented the Orgasmorator, a machine that heightens sexual pleasure, but is kidnapped by one of the (many, it seems) horny villains of Eros City. Our heroes, Stonewall (variously spelt as one or two words in the film) and Riot, have to find the doctor before it’s too late. To that end they run up against, in every possible sense of the words, Pole Cat, Snake Johnson, Dr. Probe, Bondage Fairy, The Flame, Prof. Prophylactic, Analconda, Str8boy, Websmaster, Chicken Hawk, Polar Bear, Size Queen and …
By now you’re thinking it sounds like a very bad Carry On movie and if the penultimate bad guy, The French Tickler, could easily have been played by Kenneth Williams, it’s doubtful Kenny ever used his pile-ridden arsehole to as much effect as the French Tickler. Sure, Stonewall & Riot: The Ultimate Orgasm (now available on DVD in the U.S.) dispenses with any pretence of a plot around the 40-minute mark and merely concentrates on sex for the remaining 20 minutes, replete with enough Spandex and leather to please any fetishist, but the script is not without a certain amusing charm and has many a sly in-joke and cinematic reference, e.g. The French Tickler’s defeat is a direct homage to Georges Méliès 1902 classic A Trip to the Moon. And you have to love his two henchmen, Croissant and Baguette.
What does, however, spoil this enjoyable romp is the voice talent. Sure, creator Joe Phillips is okay as Stonewall and Brandon Colt is great as the red-haired Riot, but the remainder ranges from the amateur to the merely serviceable. I know the animated movie is meant to be all very tongue-in-arse but it could (and should) have been so much better.
While I love Joe Phillips’ animation there’s a mechanical quality to the sex acts – and most of them last longer than it takes me to ejaculate – but he really needs to get better storylines. Success is no excuse for sloppy execution or slipshod dramatic arcs. Why am I taking it all so seriously?
Because Joe Phillips, who started out as a noted costume designer before turning to comics, is a major artist. He started illustrating other people’s work including Silver Surfer, Justice League of America and X-Men before he couldn’t keep a lid on his desire to draw gay relationships and sex. He began with what became the Joe Boy comic strip for XY Magazine before his first animated cartoon, Cumquest, a spoof of Star Trek, and then the hugely successful The House of Morecock.
I just wish Stonewall and Riot had as much meat in their storyline as they do between their legs.
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