Poison Ivy II: Lily
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Movie Reviews of Poison Ivy II: Lily
Movie Review: Forget the hype -- a respectable drama
Summary: 4 Stars
I've no idea why PI2 is packaged as a sequel to the Gilbert/Barrymore "Poison Ivy". Lily (the Milano character) is no teen murderess, nor is she a premeditated homewrecker. The story is sexy, but not gratuitously so. Both Alyssa Milano and several others turn in competent performances. Cheryl Ladd was particularly notable in her role as the invalid wife. Milano, of course, is stunning. She's sexy enough, thank you -- but mostly she's just oh-wow, girl-next-door pretty.Movie Review: Poison Ivy II: Lily
Summary: 4 Stars
I liked this movie. It's not the same as the other ones, but that is what I liked about it. I think changing the format was a good idea. Otherwise you have the same movie with different actors. You might as well just watch the same one over and over. Lily is trying to find herself. Lily is trying on a different personality. If you become someone else it is easier to do bolder things. Although, personally I think they could have found someone else to play her art teacher...Movie Review: I like this best of the Ivy Trilogy!
Summary: 4 Stars
This never really did well but I think it's the best of the Ivy Trilogy! The movie puts you right into Lily's life of wanting to be "more," only to find out that you need to be true to yourself. It is sexy, seductive, and simply a life lesson to be learned. Girls should watch this before they head off to college. I wish it would have been out when I did. Two thumbs up from me!!Movie Review: Who's The Boss girl visits art school on way to Charmed
Summary: 3 Stars
R rated and Unrated versions of the 1995 movie (nudity and language). Thriller ("dark/adult"). (barely 3 stars, closer to 2 1/2 stars)
The DVD reviewed contains just the movie and some cast & crew information. There are four different versions of the movie: two widescreen (R and unrated) and two full screen (R and unrated). Testing will allow you to find the best version of the film (both formats cut off the edges, the top, or the bottom). This review is of the unrated widescreen version.
Credits: The movie stars Alyssa Milano (Lily; TV: "Who's the Boss", "Charmed"), Xander Berkeley (Professor Donald Falk; TV: "24"), and Jonathon Schaech (Gredin - a roommate; TV "Partners"). The director is Anne Goursaud ("Embrace of the Vampire"). The movie is written by Chloe King.
Plot: The movie is the about a young inexperienced woman, Lily, who moves to Los Angles to attend an art school. While there she finds a box left behind by Ivy. Among other things, the box contains a diary and some self-portraits of Ivy (Drew Barrymore, apparently the box has been sitting around undisturbed for three years) the subject of the previous movie. The movie boils down to this: "pure" young woman's life is changed by "rule-breaking"/taboo-breaking helped along by an explicit diary, an art teacher and a male art student.
Review: I appear to be watching this series backwards as the only other movie I have seen in the series is the third (the 2nd and 3rd movies are direct to video sequels). The third movie in the series, which I watched first and stars Jamie Pressly, is a better movie than the second movie in the series.
The movie opens on Donald Falk's art classroom with Falk and a woman having some fun (immediate nudity). Falk stops in the middle and breaks up with the woman (I believe he got what he wanted, though). And now we meet the just arriving Lily looking like she is wearing many layers of clothing in the style of a hobo, and wearing army boots. Despite the hobo appearance, she appears to have similarities between her and the just rejected woman (a pattern - looking for a younger version of his wife?). Lily arrives thirty minutes late to an art class two weeks after school started carrying all her luggage. The professor isn't particularly put out, and directs the attention of the class to the posed pale red-haired nude woman. After class, Lily heads off to her coed group house where she meets Gredin: I don't know why, but when I first see Gredin, he looks like he is a little fake, looking like he is trying to look like a rough Val Kilmer-type person - we later learn that he is a "rebel" and not constrained by "traditional" art traditions. Later, after a bad experience in art class due to comments by Gredin, Lily reads Ivy's diary and butchers the self-portraits, while this occurs "Ivy" (who I strongly doubt is Drew Barrymore) dances around nude representing the pictures (black & white filming would have worked better here, considering the pictures themselves are black & white). Apparently, one reading of the diary and one deep glance through the photos causes Lily to start down the slippery slope (the change to the "bad" girl side is just too quick, and the slope leads to nudity for Lily).
The movie is quite unrealistic. Lily arrives two weeks late to her classes at her new art school, and the teacher doesn't seem to mind that much (perfect opportunity for the lecherous teacher to "privately tutor" the woman, but he doesn't suggest it, instead he hires her as a baby-sitter; and as a model). Having the class immediately start drawing a posed nude woman after apparently two weeks of background, is not particularly realistic. Also, Lily seems to have just one teacher and one class (part of the struggle of college is having to take so many classes at once). Based on an early phone conversation between Lily and her parents, this is not a graduate art school, so why are the art students drawing nude portraits so soon?
David Falk and Milano seem to have some acting ability, most of the time, while the rest of the actors seem to have some trouble acting, that or they are very good actors - acting as if they are disturbed artists (none of the characters are likable). Personally, I like the music. The clothing is reflective of the time, I suppose, but quite horrible (early: army boots, drab clothing; later: clothing you might see on an episode of "Charmed"). The plot and dialogue hinder the movie (though Berkley and Milano seem to put some energy into trying to make it work). Overall, I would give the movie 2.63 stars (due for the irritating nature of the plot and dialogue "your beauty scares me"). Contains nudity, attempted rape, death . . . described by one word: "unrealistic"
Movie Review: Milano holds her own...
Summary: 3 Stars
"Poison Ivy 2" to me, was a slight disappointment. Sure, i felt that the film was supposed to be suspenseful (like the other 2), it was supposed to be sexy (like the other 2), and it was supposed to have a good deal of deviance (like the other 2). After seeing how Drew Barrymore and Jamie Pressly conducted themselves in their respective films, and, correct me if im wrong people, but Milano just seemed to be out of place in this film. Also, in my humble opinion I think she would have been beat up by either of the other 2 Ivy's.
Her love scenes were fair and nothing to go silly over, even though there was some good helpings of nudity, it could have been much better. I believe that the only time there was supposed suspense was when she was hanging around the art teacher, who lusted her. Half way through, after hooking the guy on her cute little self, she shys away. Had that been the Ivy we all know, he would have ended up dead as a doornail. But to her credit, Milano did a good job of a girl trying to be someone else that generally wasnt her. She tried Ivy's shoes on and realized that they didnt fit. By that time, her deviance caught up with her in a semi-Fatal Attraction.
Could have been a lot better, and was, in Poison Ivy 3. Check that one out, but this is one film for Milano fans only.
-CW