Decoys 2: Alien Seduction

This movie was.... interesting. It was overall quite novel, but it suffered from a couple of draw backs.

The first is that while the alien female cast is definitely attractive (and I am not saying the human cast isn't), but it appears as if someone had instructed them to try and act seductively while playing a part and they just end up coming across like the actors in the crappy porn movies my flatmates used to find amusing. This is generally OK, but it really gets annoying in some places.

Also, if you were hoping for a "Species" or an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", you will be a little disappointed. The storyline in most places is fairly obvious, although there are a couple of features which make it different enough to make the film not a complete waste of time.

Other than this, the special effects are certainly fair, the acting is decent (barring the notes above) and it's definitely watchable. It might not be a movie I would recommend to others as one to search out and watch, but if you have some time to kill or it's on TV there are a lot of other movies that are way worse than this.

For more than one reason the first "Decoys" movie managed to entertain sci-fi/horror audiences, much to everybody's surprise. A bunch of aliens, disguised as hot female college babes, wreak havoc on a campus. There mission is simple: seduce and mate with male students to ensure that their race will live on. It's a horror-comedy mixture aimed at teenagers mostly, but it's decent enough, fresh & spirited and was made on a comfortable budget. It's fun and that's about it. Nothing to complain about. Now, the sequel did it right too. The budget looked the same, so at least production values weren't a step backwards. But what the filmmakers understood, was giving us more of the same highlights that made the first film work: Same plot, more creature effects, a higher bodycount and last but not least, more luscious babes going topless. You can't ask much else from a flick like this than to keep a decent pace & entertain. And this sequel did.

This movie is what i call a good light heart movie that serve its purpose well. It takes elements from the college boys movies, other elements from suspense, and a little part of the horror gender(even tough it ain't gore or scary at all). The story has flaws and its far from perfect, but for what it aim for it serve its purpose well.

Much like the other reviewers i think if you watch this movie knowing exactly what it is(and liking that) you will have a good time. Even better with beers and a couple friends. Of course this movie is aimed at teens to young guys audience. This is one of those "watch a movie on Saturday night with a couple buddies, pizzas and beers" type.

The female cast is great looking, the acting is decent enough, the story funny, overall its cool.

I saw Decoys 2: Alien Seduction before the original. It is just as well that I did, because the original was such a who-cares non-event that if I had seen it first, I never would have bothered with the sequel. So it is fortunate, then, that the makers of Decoys 2 got a few things right that the makers of Decoys got wrong. I will cover those in due course. In the film industry, many a studio has been saved by the sudden unexpected crossing of multiple genres into a new blend, or even the treatment of an old genre in unexpected ways. Decoys, on the other hand, attempted to combine the conservative sex farce of the 1980s with the science-fiction horror best exemplified by 1979's Alien. When done correctly, this kind of genre blend can inherit the strengths of its ingredients and go to glory, as was the case with 1986's Aliens. The problem here is that Decoys inherited the weaknesses of its ingredient genres thanks to a combination of poor script, poor acting, and poor direction. Decoys 2 avoids some, but not all, of these problems.

The basic premise is more or less identical to that of Decoys. Young males wanting to bump uglies with the females on their tertiary campus make stupid bets with each other and do stupid things all in the pursuit of female flesh. The twist, of course, is that a small group of women from another planet land on the campus grounds. Their mission, as was explained a little better in the original, is a little more serious in its nature. Namely, they need to ensure the continuation of their species by mating with males with any biological similarity to them. The complication is that so far, with a singular exception, every male they have fornicated with has suffered a catastrophic fall in body temperature and died as a result. Whether this reflects American sexual phobia or was just meant as a gag about certain perceptions of interracial mating is really not relevant, as the implications are left entirely unexplored. In contrast to one scene in the original, this shallow approach is a minor letdown, but one of the very few.

Corey Sevier returns to reprise his role as Luke, one of the few who survived the original. When last we saw him, he was discovering who the last of the aliens he had not dispatched was the hard way. We catch up with him in the midst of an appointment with a psychiatrist, portrayed with stunning panache by Dina Meyer. To call a comparison of their acting skills a battle between a spider and a dinosaur is flattering to Sevier, and not because one would be comparing him to a dinosaur. Replacing Matthew Hastings behind the camera, and the screenplay, are Jeffery Scott Lando and Miguel Tejada-Flores (respectively). Not that I will accuse the latter pair of being brilliant, but they do seem to understand how to keep an audience's attention for ninety minutes. As a result, Sevier seems far more convincing than was the case in Decoys. Rounding out the better performances is an extended cameo from Tobin Bell, who still proves without trying that he can be far more frightening than anything the special effects wizards can add to the negative.

Unfortunately, the basic mechanics of the plot are what needed the biggest revision, and they go begging. Everything that happens in the original Decoys happens more or less the same way in Decoys 2. Adding to the problem is that the total lack of charisma or interest in the male leads has not been addressed. That these young lads could get sex in the middle of a Bangkok university would surprise a lot of people. And I do want to qualify that by making clear I mean nothing against the city or people of Bangkok in that statement. Anyway, the other half of the problem lies in the female leads. The only sense of depth in the original came when Kim Poirier's character had a major conflict of interest after falling in love with her prey. Here, such depth would be entirely non-existent without a subplot involving Dina Meyer's character raising some serious and justified questions about the sanity of Corey Sevier's. And that is where most of the improvement apparent in this sequel derives. Meyer and Bell are able to carry such a subplot even in spite of the director. The rest of the cast cannot.

The inevitable question becomes that of who this film will appeal to or entertain. Such a question can literally keep a critic up at night, especially where turkeys like the Decoys series are concerned. A lot of the time, films can be used as a source of unintentional amusement by gathering an audience and sitting through it for the purpose of mocking it. The staggering ineptness of the director, writer, actors, or all of the above can be greater comedy than most intentional comedies. Unfortunately, Decoys 2 is not amusing enough for the most part to carry itself in this manner. Neither is it well-made enough to awe the viewer with the execution of its plot or premise as was the case with one genre-blender I previously mentioned for comparison. Instead, Decoys 2 finds itself almost entirely in no man's land. While I will watch Dina Meyer in just about anything, I would also urge her to find better vehicles for her talent, or fire her agent. Or if it was indeed her agent that recommended this role to her, do both.

I gave Decoys 2 a five out of ten. As a waste of ninety minutes, it is worth watching once. But you can easily find something better to do with your time.

i have to admit i watched this just for the hott chicks and boy was i not disappointed, seemed like every guys fantasy chick including mine was in this movie. not having seen the original i didn't know what to expect except for the hot chicks,, i was surprised to see Tobin Bell,, Jigsaw from Saw in this,, he was a college professor in this.. apparently the alien chicks are defly afraid of heat,, they like the cold, so they wanna get the guys out in the cold weather to do it,, one guy is cold so he turns on a heater and the girl gets a bad burn from it,,apparently the only way you can tell if the girl is an alien is the fact that they have no belly button,, the guys at the college are in a race to see how many alien chicks they can score.. not a bad movie,, there is actually a plot in there if you look hard enough.