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Poison Ivy II: Lily (1996)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 8/08

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8/08: Poison Ivy II: Lily is a big improvement over the original.

The acting is better, thanks to Johnathon Schaech and Xander Berkely. Alyssa Milano gives a credible performance by playing it low-key, but she didn't have to be nude. The true problem lies with the direction. At first, I was thinking, "Okay, it's a soft porno flick minus a story." Then, it became "Okay now, it's about the emulation of Ivy." Now, it's "Okay, it's about a disastrous love triangle with an Asian female who emerges from The Phantom of the Opera."

Changing it up for one more time, the story was switched to "a professor falling madly in love with his student and going beyond the boundaries of forbidden love." After a while, it turns out there's no plot after all. The funny thing is that, amid the chaos, the film had a lot of potential to begin with. Only if Anne Goursaud could focus on the love triangle drama, it might have worked out.

All in all, Poison Ivy II: Lily would've been better if it had a proper direction.