Matrixiole
Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
Livestonth
I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
Frances Chung
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
hall895
Here we have a sequel which has pretty much nothing to do with the first film in the series. Which is probably a good thing as that first film was quite terrible. Unfortunately this one is really no better. Alyssa Milano plays Lily, a shy girl from Michigan who goes to college in Los Angeles. There she comes out of her shell. And out of her clothes. Milano, at the point in her career where she felt the need to show how grown-up she was, dutifully doffs her top a few times. Honestly that's the only reason this movie exists, as a vehicle to put Milano on naked display. And again being honest that's probably the only reason anyone would ever watch this movie. You want a topless Alyssa Milano you got it. You want a decent movie you are well and truly out of luck.Whereas Ivy, the central figure in the first film, was an unapologetic seductress and homewrecker Lily is a good girl at heart. A bit clueless but good nonetheless. Anyhow her pervy art professor tries to take advantage of her. And one of her fellow students treats her badly and publicly humiliates her so she of course immediately sleeps with him. Eventually she tries to tap into her darker, more seductive side but that effort fails rather miserably. Some other weirdos float around on the periphery of the story and eventually it all comes to an end in what may be the worst final fifteen minutes of any movie ever. The movie had very little going for it throughout and in that ending it completely falls apart. It's an ending which piles one laughable absurdity upon another. The movie's supposed to be a thriller but it ends up as an unintentional comedy. Sadly it's not even a good unintentional comedy. The story stinks, the dialogue is pitiful, the acting is generally terrible and the obtrusive music is just painful. This is a movie with nothing to recommend it. If you're just here for Alyssa Milano's breasts enjoy them. You won't enjoy anything else.
moonspinner55
1992's "Poison Ivy" played like an art-house sleaze-piece with an eye on the cult-movie market (and, at this, it succeeded, despite a herky-jerky narrative). But since the heroine perished in that film's final moments, a sequel would seem unlikely. Not so, as Alyssa Milano's Lily finds out. After discovering and reading a diary written by the doomed Ivy (played in '92 by Drew Barrymore), Milano revamps herself, takes on a seamier personality, and causes sexual havoc. Quite a stretch trying to connect the two films, but at least the first movie had an interesting direction and some B-movie style. This dud has neither, nor is Milano the next Drew Barrymore. Followed in 1997 by "Poison Ivy: The New Seduction". NO STARS from ****
movieman_kev
Having very little to do with the original Drew Barrymore starring vehicle, this sequel that ups the titillation and seaminess factor, has Alyssa Milano as Lily, an art major who recently went off to college in California. Like many 'innocent', 'wholesome' girls that go off to college in that state, it isn't long before she becomes a man hungry raving slut. Her transformation starts when she finds the diary of the deceased man hungry slut who lived in her dorm room before her. She lusts for this one guy in particular while her elderly art instructor lusts after her. The first film in the series was mediocre at best, so to say that this one gave me some trepidation over whether I should even watch it is a pretty accurate statement. But when I saw that it reunited Milano with Director Anne Goursaud, whom she last teamed up with for a little B-movie soft-core gem "Embrace of the Vampire', I decided to give the film a try. Well sadly lightning rarely ever strikes twice and the poor acting, lack of involving story, and most importantly not as much nude Alyssa as compared to the earlier Embrace, all turned me off and I found myself bored to tears long before the movies predictable final reel.Eye Candy: Tara Ellison, Victoria Hass & Kate Rodger get topless; Alyssa Milano shows off T&A My Grade: D- Where I saw it: @ Max
Jackson Booth-Millard
The first film had Drew Barrymore as a very toxic girl and not much sex, the sequel is almost the complete opposite, but a completely rubbish film. I can't remember any toxic girls, but I can remember the main girl called Lily and a little more sex and nudity than the first film, but not overly exposing it like most other soft core porn films. There is no good story like the original, and no little, and I mean little, bit of nudity saves it. I usually only see films like this only for the sex and nudity content. Lily may be an attractive blonde girl, I think she had not bad tits, and she has sex with a few people, she didn't do it with any women, which might have made it more worth it. Drew Barrymore was a lot more toxic, Lily is just complete trash and utter waste of time. Poor!