It lives up to its name at least. When I first opened the box of the Ultra Stretchy Mouth, it looked tiny. I thought to myself that there was no way that I would fit (and I’m not trying to brag; I think I’m a tick below average in that department). I tossed it around in my palms – it had a pleasant squishiness to it, not sticky or tacky, like some other jelly toys I’ve seen, although there was a fair amount of dusty residue coating it that wasn’t initially apparent. A good rinse will get rid of that, and I guess one should keep it wrapped in plastic to keep the dust from accumulating. Squeezing it caused it to make a quite pleasant smacking noise, almost as if it were beckoning.

Well, I’m not one to resist a beckoning pair of lips for long, so I took it home and got ready to try it out. The Ultra Stretchy Mouth very considerately comes with a little packet of silicone lube (very thin and runny – be careful when tearing it open!) which I poured inside. It turns out that I needn’t have worried all that much about its size, as the jelly material easily accommodated the head of my shaft. As I worked it up and down, the taut-yet-flexible material provided a very pleasing suction that wasn’t too far off from the real thing. Hooray for jelly!

The one downside is that the Ultra Stretchy Mouth is not very deep – you can easily pop out the hole on the opposite end, and that’s a bit annoying. Deep-throating is one thing that this baby cannot do, apparently. The presence of said hole, though, does make for a relatively easy cleanup as far as these things go – it won’t turn inside-out but you can run water through the length of the toy and then squeeze the last drops out the end. All in all, the Ultra Stretchy Mouth is a pretty reasonable toy for the price.

This might be being a bit unfair, but I found that after a few months of storage this toy has lost a little bit of the texture that made it fun. It feels a little bit less bouncy and playful, particularly on the inside. I've been pretty diligent about running soapy water through it, but the texture has changed just a bit anyway. I don't think it's mold, but it's possible. I stored it when still damp (I wrapped it in plastic to prevent dust accumulation) and it affected the jelly material or something, or it just didn't get rinsed properly...

It's not unusable by any means, but it's lost a certain je ne sais quoi... In its defense the toy is pretty cheap, and nobody really expects these things to last forever.