I'm not a big fan of films with a strong erotic material, but I decided to watch this film to see if it followed the storyline of the film that preceded it, and which was starring Drew Berrymore. The producers may even have wanted to establish a connection, but the fact is that they have nothing in common except nudity and eroticism.
The story is quite simple: Lilly is a young university student who has just joined a Californian art college, a long way from her home and family. She is a normal young woman, like so many others, beautiful but not the kind of woman who would make a man lose his head... until he finds, lost in his university republic bedroom, a box with the assets of a previous occupant: Ivy. And her words will be as poisonous as she was, given that they manage to corrupt Lilly and lead her on a dangerous path, where seduction is only the first of many forbidden pleasures.
I think any college student knows the old story of the student who gets sexually involved with her teacher. It's not just a cliché (I know several examples where it really happened and I don't even need to leave my university campus), it's a story that we've seen many times in many other films, and probably with better stories and more appealing characters. Besides, let's face it, Lilly doesn't even have a tenth of Ivy's evil spirit and perversity. She seems just lost in the midst of a kind of identity and self-assertion crisis. She never looks like a woman worthy of our fear, a dangerous seducer who can ruin our life. In fact, Lilly even seems more suggestible and influential than the character Sylvie, which we saw in the first film. I think the script was very poorly designed and, therefore, stands out for the lack of realism.
The cast is led by Alyssa Milano... and unlike Drew Barrymore, she is a very weak actress, who didn't know how to give her character the charisma and presence that it required. Well, actually, I think the problem will be more in the script and in the way the character was conceived than in the way the actress acted. The rest of the cast is not even worth mentioning. Most are at the basic level.
Technically it is a rudimentary film, clearly made for TV or, at least, already considering having a more profitable route on the small screen. And this time neither the soundtrack stands out for the positive. It's a film with a very low budget and that didn't pay attention to the technical aspects, being limited to the simplest, at all levels.
The story is quite simple: Lilly is a young university student who has just joined a Californian art college, a long way from her home and family. She is a normal young woman, like so many others, beautiful but not the kind of woman who would make a man lose his head... until he finds, lost in his university republic bedroom, a box with the assets of a previous occupant: Ivy. And her words will be as poisonous as she was, given that they manage to corrupt Lilly and lead her on a dangerous path, where seduction is only the first of many forbidden pleasures.
I think any college student knows the old story of the student who gets sexually involved with her teacher. It's not just a cliché (I know several examples where it really happened and I don't even need to leave my university campus), it's a story that we've seen many times in many other films, and probably with better stories and more appealing characters. Besides, let's face it, Lilly doesn't even have a tenth of Ivy's evil spirit and perversity. She seems just lost in the midst of a kind of identity and self-assertion crisis. She never looks like a woman worthy of our fear, a dangerous seducer who can ruin our life. In fact, Lilly even seems more suggestible and influential than the character Sylvie, which we saw in the first film. I think the script was very poorly designed and, therefore, stands out for the lack of realism.
The cast is led by Alyssa Milano... and unlike Drew Barrymore, she is a very weak actress, who didn't know how to give her character the charisma and presence that it required. Well, actually, I think the problem will be more in the script and in the way the character was conceived than in the way the actress acted. The rest of the cast is not even worth mentioning. Most are at the basic level.
Technically it is a rudimentary film, clearly made for TV or, at least, already considering having a more profitable route on the small screen. And this time neither the soundtrack stands out for the positive. It's a film with a very low budget and that didn't pay attention to the technical aspects, being limited to the simplest, at all levels.