Basic Plumbing 3 (FVP174) a review by Onan the Vulgarian Best of Phoenix Alternative Video Reviewer

	Cast: Chase Hunter, Roman Heart, Ari Bond, Christian Owen, Cort Donovan, Derek Brodie, Erik Rhodes, Trent Atkins, Trevor Knight. Directed by Chad Donovan.
	Falcon Studios, P.O. Box 880906, San Francisco, CA 94188. Toll-free orders 800-227-3717 (in CA, 415-431-7722). Internet www.falconstudios.com.
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Chase Hunter has a unique relationship to Falcon's trio of Basic Plumbing films. In Steven Scarborough's 1993 original, when Hunter was billed as "The Dick of the Decade," he was a mere apprentice at a failing plumbing business whose owners, Sean Davis and Barry Howard, learned to turn the "bottom" line from red to black by personalizing their service.
    The plan succeeded, but Hunter retired from porn. His comeback film was 1998's Basic Plumbing 2, with John Rutherford in the director's chair. Now, a decade later, Chase Hunter is a bona fide daddy (and GayVN Hall-of-Famer) and he owns the business.
    In Basic Plumbing 3, more hard times may be around the corner — and not in a good way. The employees have lost sight of their goals. The missionary position is no longer in their mission statement. Ari Bond, when summoned to the apartment of Roman Heart, would rather jerk off on the pages of a (straight) porno magazine than sample the pleasures that Roman so desperately wants to provide.
    Obviously, something needs to be done, so Chase gives his crew a pep talk about returning to the kind of service that made them a household name.
    Cort Donovan and Derek Brodie put their company spirit to the test when Trent Atkins calls them about the possibility of ongoing work at the apartment complex he manages. While Brodie busies himself elsewhere, Cort busies himself with satisfying the customer.
    Brodie returns after Cort and Trent are well underway, lending his perfect ass and perpetual sneer to a tryst that didn't need him in the first place. To borrow from Dorothy Parker, his performance runs the gamut of male-male sexual expression from A to B. I've yet to see a film in which Brodie contributes any kind of heat; he should stick to doing the "straight" gay Web sites, which are more suited to what he's willing to deliver.
    But while he's on the set, Brodie lets Cort rim him, then he fucks Trent and leaves. Cort gets no-so-sloppy seconds and he and Trent deliver monumental cumshots that leave Trent's torso looking like Jackson Pollock just visited.
    Back at the office, Chase is interviewing a new applicant, Erik Rhodes. When Chase asks Erik how he might satisfy a customer, Erik tells him that "based on what he's heard," it would go like this. Erik's knees hit the ground. While Erik busies himself in Chase's pants, Chase reached over to grab handfuls of Erik' stellar buns.
    They suck, they rim, they fuck, and everything seems to be going swimmingly when suddenly Chase pulls his cock out of Erik and ditches the condom to go looking for a dildo. I coulda believed it if the dildo came first, but this strains credibility. But I wonder, could it be the dildo that Hunter pulled out of then real-life boyfriend Tony DiAngelo's toilet in the original Basic Plumbing? Nahh.
    Trevor Knight is the nerdy receptionist for the plumbing company. He even has adhesive tape on the bridge of his eyeglasses. One day Christian Owen calls for help and there are no plumbers available to dispatch, so Trevor goes running into the locker room and pulls off a Clark Kent transformation, appearing quickly on Christian's doorstep.
    Owen's problem is that his shower is flooding the bathroom. Trevor, managing to keep a straight face, shows him how to turn off the tap. So it's gonna be one of "those" house calls, but that's OK because Christian is cute and Trevor never gets to make house calls. Trevor's tongue becomes a magnet and Christian's ass is North Pole. Yummy.
    But there's still a loose "end," so the boss pays a visit to Roman Heart to make up for the poor service he got from Ari Bond. Counting back, I figure that Roman was in first grade when Chase Hunter made the first Basic Plumbing, so if daddy fantasies push your buttons, here's a treat.
    Roman Heart and Brad Benton make the best sounds while having sex of just about anyone, and it sure adds a lot here. Chad Donovan also redeems himself for the badly timed dildo and for Derek Brodie's non-performance with what may be his cleverest and most subtle bit of directing yet: Hanging on the wall in Heart's bathroom (where the scene takes place) is an erotic painting. For much of this scene, the bodily positions of Hunter and Heart suggest the painting come to life. It's one of those things that a lot of people might never notice, but I did and it made the scene that much better.
    Chase Hunter has aged well over the 14-year course of Basic Plumbing. He's still hard, hot and handsome and if he retires again, we will all look forward to his comeback in Basic Plumbing 4.
    The DVD has trailers for FVPs 167-173 and a Web link.

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