The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry is a saying that has been adapted into modern English from a line in the poem 'To a Mouse' by renowned Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) in which he wrote, "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley." If it isn't obvious by the carefully researched literary reference, Project Muscle is a project lacking muscle to say the least.

Poetic allusions aside, what I hoped would be a massive collection of massively muscular dudes turned out to be not so large or pack quite the heat for which I was hoping. There are 65 non-exclusive galleries taken from numerous other sites, old magazine layouts and various other unoriginal sources.

To add perhaps insult to injury one might expect that at least ProjectMuscle would be consistently good quality or offer high-res pictures but it doesn't do either. It has only a few large-framed sets mixed into tons of regular resolution or smaller-framed shots and some that seem even only to be video captures not still images even. Most notably there are some scenes from Boys Gone Bad that don't even star jocks or muscle dudes.

As far as I can tell, there is only one video divided into two streaming mediocre clips. That's it for content beyond links to live chats through the Flirt4Free service, which you could visit directly on your own anyway, although the redirected homepage does fall on some specially selected musclemen from within the standard site. Project Muscle costs significantly less than most sites charge for membership, however, it still isn't bargain enough to sign up to given the lack of videos and lower quality non-exclusive stuff it boasts.