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Lured to Costa Rica
Rating: 3 Stars
Produced and directed by Chi Chi LaRue. Videography by Hue Wilde. Edited by Scott Coblio. Music by Rock Hard. Starring Kyle Kennedy, Luis Alberto, Paolo Martinez, Richard Rocco, Axell Caballero, Marcelo Corella, Alex Burbon, and Sebastian Madrid.
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In words that could have been scripted by the Instituto Costaricense de Turismo, satisfied traveler Kyle Kennedy describes the delights of Costa Rica, a Central American paradise where tourists are bewitched by "the contrast of the vibrant teal sea with the most tranquil and hypnotic surf of frothy white." Before Kennedy's Technicolor voiceovers can give you a headache, however, Luis Alberto and Paolo Martinez come bounding naked out of the vibrant teal sea, throw themselves down on the black volcanic sand, and get the first of four sex scenes off to an auspicious start.

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Porn wizard Chi Chi LaRue's distinctive gift for energetic lechery is much in evidence here, though he seems to be channeling Kristen Bjorn in a sequence involving three workers at a coffee plantation that's "just like it was described in a Hemingway novel." (The Young Man and the Beans?) Most of the sex has no visual connection to Costa Rica, but the interior footage is beautifully shot by Hue Wilde, with attention to the warm flesh tones of the predominantly Costa Rican cast.

Newcomer Luis Alberto, whose cock has the heft of an Amsterdam sidewalk bollard, is outstanding in at least two senses. So is Kennedy, though his scene with Sebastian Madrid is marginally better than his encounter with Alex Burbon, who's presented as the souvenir he's bringing home. Madrid, who has a schoolboy demeanor and a sweet, Drew Barrymore face, emerges as a junior-division world-class sexpig. Kennedy responds to him with such infectious enthusiasm that he can be forgiven for feeling compelled to make comments like, "That's a hot pinga!"