Review of      "SPLASH!"      by Chris

SPLASH!: rather than listing the many bathhouse movies Robert Boggs has made over the years, let's just say that this fifth AYOR release derives directly from the central episode in AQUA CLUB (2004, Pacific Sun), a jacuzzi 3way featuring Chad Driver, with Devon Donis and Tad Harrison, and shot in the same resort used for scenes 1, 2, 4 & 5 of SPLASH!, a popular aqua park in Liberec, north of Prague. That brilliant scene uses the same idea of moving from a public space where it is difficult to have more than stolen kisses (Genadij however shows us, and Chad, that you can show much more!) to a more restricted area where the hottest sex will occur, and exploits the same sense of athletic horsing around inextricably mixed with gay lust and tenderness. This year's movie is based on a group of friends, who go spend whole afternoons in one of the many aqua parks and/or spa resorts available in Prague and elsewhere in the country, and which are particularly popular during the cold and damp winter months. They play in the water, they laugh and splash and are just happy to be together. It's remarkable, however, that everything begins with Denis feeling moody and lonely, and leaving his two mates. So, new encounters do occur, as in scene 1 or 7, but mostly it's friends playing together and enjoying each other in all possible ways. The fact that scenes 5 & 6 are "oral only" is just one example of this diversity. And scene 6 in particular, rematching Denis and Matias, so good together in scene 1, is a great instance of "practice makes perfect" or "nothing like the second time around". Beside the most welcome return of Brock and Chad to the fold, this is the film that revealed Genadij Prokov in all his glory.