Cafe Flesh 2

Considering the original Cafe Flesh is one of the most respected adult films by sources outside of the industry,Antonio Passolini has chosen a movie with a lot of admirers,in which to mark his return to directing. 15 years has elapsed and an epidemic has been wiping out the majority of the sex positives,those remaining humans who can still have sex. The club has passed hands to 'Violet Chinchilla' (played by Jeanna Fine) who has a male sex positive ready for work.Meanwhile Raylene has been trekking across the nuclear wastelands to cash in on her assets,and a sewage worker has stumbled upon a cryogenically stored female virgin (Stacy Valentine)called by Buffy. With the ingredients mixed and the return of the neon Cafe Flesh sign,its business as (un)usual.Rebecca Lord is the first performer,speaking in her native french tongue(and what a cunning linguist she proves to be),while 2 mime artists(Tony Tedeschi and John Decker)smear sticky white ...grease paint over her. Stacy dreams of losing her cherry to T.T.Boy,as he teaches her about what shes been missing out on and Raylene looks resplendent in a kimono/matador dress, while bullfighting with Billy Glide before she baits him to impale her. However it does not take long for the positives to realize that there is more money in performing at their own club and mutiny is at hand.

Unfortunately Passolini has failed in bringing back the magic from the original.The production is excellent,but the script fails in its potential,especially at the end which feels incomplete,with loose ends surrounding most of the cast.The first script was apparently 90 pages long,cut down to a mere 64,removing key elements such as Stacy being attacked by mutants at the end.It only makes me wonder if the end was written,just never filmed ? Another loss is the feel of the club environment,maybe there is not enough 'cutaways' to the audience,its uninspired narration before each performance or perhaps the acts themselves ar just not unorthodox enough. The worst crime though is the XXX scenes which are quite dull.Static camerawork and long takes only result in a major part of the film being lifeless. Cafe Flesh 2 is nothing short of disappointing,even cameos bu Kitten Natividad(star of Russ Meyer's films)and Veronica Hart seem wasted. All of this only proves Michael Ninn's true worth as the revolutionary adult film maker he is hailed as being. The DVD has a bio on the top stars and the transfer is of the same high quality that I have come to expect from VCA.

I thought the theme of sex being forbidden in the future would suck, but with attractive characters, I'm sure this film is not going to disappoint. The pacing is rather poor, however. I haven't seen the first one so I don't really have a comparison.

Pretentious writer-director Antonio Passolini/Anthony Lovett loads this sequel to a famous (and influential) Adult movie with endless popular culture references, but otherwise his self-consciously "hip" script adds little to the sci-fi dystopia premise of the original.

Veronica Hart is a "saver", arriving late in the film with her nonpareil acting chops, playing the aged owner of the Cafe Flesh, which is no more thanks to the post-Nuclear War world losing its libido, even to the extent of the voyeurism that made the club popular.

Jeanna Fine is out to resurrect Cafe Flesh, and is fortunate enough to buy a frozen lady (superstar Stacy Valentine) from our humble narrator (well-played by scruffy Simon Delo), who found her in his job working in the city's sewers. She's a well-preserved virgin, intact and able to have sex on stage for Fine's floorshow.

Very strange costumes and sets, plus an array of pastel wigs, complement the campy approach here, and Raylene, Rebecca Lord and Sally Layd all put on hot sex shows at the club, including flashbacks of the glory days of Cafe Flesh of old. Even the famous porno makeup artist May Balleen is impressive as a topless go-go dancer during the end credits.

But the story, including the plight of sexually Positive Raylene and her forlorn Negative lover Alec Metro, is weak and poorly resolved in a rushed ending.

No pun intended - also not really a summary line I reckon. But the label that had this movie out on a DVD Magazine. I was surprised to say the least because it did look like a movie for ... well an adult movie. So a magazine, even one that is only sold to adults would have such a movie? A horror magazine nonetheless (DVD World, quite the interesting read back in the day). Anyway so I finally after 2 decades decided to give this a watch. And it is quite soft ... again no pun intended.

You do not see the stuff you'd see if you had gotten the real disc - or I reckon streamed it would be more appropriate nowadays, uncut that is. All that being said: there is still a lot of nudity - and you have to dig the hairdos and all that Science Fiction stuff the movie entails - or maybe you call it differently. Since the hard stuff is left out, the movie is shorter ... but it's not about size .. is it?