Garganta Profunda II: 12 Anos Depois

It boggled my mind to learn that the adult cult classic Deep Throat spawned five sequels. Right off the bat, the original film was unheard of and it's beyond clear that they just couldn't leave the idea alone. Deep Throat: Part II is, in short, miserable; a pointless exercise that even a devoted fan of the original could hate, as it trudges by in eighty-eight minutes, giving newfound respect to softcore films shown late on Cinemax that actually show something. I speak not as a person wanting to be pampered with intimate closeups of breasts and other body parts, but when a pornographic film feels so scared to show a simple breast on screen is where the line needs to be drawn.

Deep Throat was, in short, a fun movie. It was funny when it needed to be, corny practically all the way through its runtime, and somewhat arousing, even as its scenarios and lines of dialog were blatantly asinine. Deep Throat: Part II is about as soulless as modern pornography and, frankly, feels more like making a regular film than a pornographic one. This is fine by me, any day, if the film (a) didn't borrow the name, actors, and strange humor from its predecessor and (b) didn't have such a lackluster, unfathomably uninteresting storyline.

The film stars Linda Lovelace, once more, who, during Deep Throat, boldly exercised the rights of sexual freedom and women's choice. She plays herself again, working as a nurse for the sex doctor named Jayson (Harry Reems, who returns in a far less amusing role), with the goal to get all of her clients to have some sort of pleasure during sex that either never existed or was simply never recognized. Her latest man is a geek named Dilbert Lamb (Levi Richards), who is working intricately with the government to run a powerful computer that stores unprecedented amounts of confidential and personal data. In order to obtain the data, Linda must become romantically involved with Dilbert, leading to chaos and uncertainty with organizations like the CIA and the FBI that are heavily guarding the computer.

It would appear that the plot got the best of Sarno (also the writer), as he seems to show more of an interest in finding out where a story like this could go rather than providing some levels of arousal, humor, or consistency in the story. I continue to run into the quandary of trying to grade Deep Throat: Part II as a piece of erotic filmmaking because not only is there nothing erotic about it but it doesn't even seem to want to be known as softcore film, despite its label, title, and actors.

Even if I try to grade this as simply a B-movie with mild erotic undertones, I run into a complete lack of interest with its material and writing. The only thing more depressing than watching a bad movie is seeing clearly cheery actors succumb to the bad material on screen. After watching Lovelace and Reems bring incomprehensible hilarity and fun to the original Deep Throat, seeing them half-baked (which may not be just in terms of their performances) and lackadaisically going about their similar characters again with a Z-grade script is entirely disheartening.

This is an uncompromisingly boring, horrifically inert softcore movie that makes you question and rethink calling it a "softcore movie." A softcore movie, by definition, contains scenes of sex that are shot with a sense of conservatism, being that they do not show all of the human body at work in bed. For as sex-obsessed as its predecessor was, Deep Throat: Part II shows no signs of compassion or interest in its subjects or the sex they could potentially be having. Even a scene of three characters getting dressed is burdened by an unnecessary speed-up in editing. If only the entire film could be burdened by that style of editing.

Starring: Linda Lovelace, Harry Reems, and Levi Richards. Directed by: Joseph W. Sarno.

As a fan of the Golden Age of Adult film, I found "Deep Throat II" to be thoroughly enjoyable. How great it is to see familiar faces like Jamie Gillis, Linda Lovelace, and especially Harry Reems, together in a non-pornographic parody of one of the most successful Adult films of all time. "Deep Throat Part II" possesses a kind of surreal quality, in the way that it looks like a porn film, but it never goes there. While it's easy to see why people expecting and wanting to see a hardcore feature, would despise this thing, those looking for a straight up slapstick comedy filled with insider jokes and hysterically over the top performances from the Icons of Adult film, I don't understand how true fans of the 1970's hardcore movies wouldn't love this. Basically a spoof on the Russian spy genre, with Linda Lovelace being under investigation; they all want to know how Linda can make any man confess to anything. Reems plays a desperately horny psychiatrist, playing against type, a man who CAN'T get laid. His performance is hysterically corny and cute. It's also nice to see Linda in a film where she doesn't get physically debased, knowing how she secretly hated performing in adult films. This one is funny and sexy, without being explicit, and it is one of the true time capsules of an incredible decade that will never be topped. Also worthy of mention is it's truly excellent soundtrack, which adds to the delight of this oddball movie.

Do you like sci-fi? Do you like 'camp'? Or 'sexploitation'?

"Deep Throat 2" is a campy, sci-fi, sexploitation film about a machine that is programmed to understand human decision-making based off of the data it has consumed... and there's a bunch of nudity. This is similar to "War of the Worlds 2" not the nudity, but in the book "War of the Worlds 2" from the turn of the century, in a cash-grabbing sequel, we accidentally get "new" sci-fi concepts like the rocket ship and the ray gun. "Deep Throat 2", while presented as an adult film, is actually a science fiction thriller with computer science concepts like Large Language Models (LLMs) And 'loops', and that makes it worth a watch.

Deep Throat Part II (1974)

BOMB (out of 4)

Nurse Lovelace (Linda of course) and Dr. Jayson (Harry Reems) get involved in a government conspiracy as they try to bring down a man known as Dilbert Lamb. It turns out Lamb is harboring a secret government computer so Lovelace must use her magic to try and help.

DEEP THROAT broke into the mainstream and became a huge success even though it was a hardcore porn film. There's no question that it was a major game changer so obviously a sequel would be a no-brainer. Joseph W. Sarno's DEEP THROAT PART II is pure exploitation at its very worse. The film is basically a R-rated attempt to try and cash in on the success of the first film.

There were rumors for years that it was shot as a hardcore picture but these sequences were stolen by the Mafia. There are rumors that it was meant to be shot softcore because Lovelace refused the sex. There are all sorts of rumors out there about the film but as it stands this is basically just a screwball comedy with nothing going for it. When I say nothing I really do mean nothing because there's really not much sex, there's no laughs and the entire thing is just very annoying.

Even if they didn't advertise this as a sequel to the hardcore legend the film still wouldn't work. The entire story is just downright dumb and doesn't make for any entertainment. Even worse is that the comedy is so bad that you just find yourself sinking into your seat. Even worse is the fact that Reems, Lovelace and even Jamie Gillis are just wasted. Poor Lovelace has a beautiful smile but that wasn't what people were coming to see.

DEEP THROAT PART II probably made some quick cash at the box office but it's a really horrible movie that doesn't have anything going for it.

I'll admit to having never seen of Lovelace's most well-known movies (although I did see the Hollywood biopic of the 2010s), but when I saw LINDA LOVELACE, SECRET AGENT pop up on Prime as a wacky sci-fi comedy I thought I'd give it a go. I wish I hadn't. This has all the production values and humour of a cheap porn movie but without the actual pornography, although there's still plenty of nudity dotted throughout the production. Lovelace herself isn't much of an actress but seems decent compared to some of the other performers on screen here. Worst of all is the non-existent plot and attempts at humour, which truly are bottom of the barrel.