This is my 100th review, and I had to pick this movie for it? Well, they can't all be winners. As a disclaimer, I must say that this review has spoilers in it.
"Married People, Single Sex II", which will be referred from now as "MPSS 2" for easy typing, is a softcore flick that tries real hard--extremely hard--to be a Lifetime Movie Of the Week. Honestly, it tries, but it fails mightily.
Here we have three married couples, all with their typical married problems. Carol (Kathy Shower) and John (Craig Stepp) have two kids and seem to have lost the urge to have sex anymore...well, Carol has. John is seeing a call girl on a regular basis in order to get his needs satisfied, if you know what I mean. Valerie (B-movie goddess Monique Parent) and David (softcore regular Doug Jeffery) don't have sex either....in fact, Valerie desperately wants to put out for David, but he's busy banging Karen (Rainer Grant), whose husband, Sam (Sam Schueler), is oblivious to it all.
As the movie progresses, we find out that women and men see sex differently (a no-brainer there) and want different things out of it (you guessed it, another no-brainer) as we follow the three men and three women individually talking about their relationships in black-and-white segments dispersed throughout the film. The women huddle together and talk about the sex they're not getting, the men talk about the sex they're not getting while chomping on hot dogs. David is the most aggressive of the bunch; when he's not having sex with Karen, he's hitting on other women, and Valerie has no idea it's going on.
Meanwhile, Karen seems to be involved with David because she's fed up with the soft, romantic "lovemaking" of Sam. In the most dramatic scene of the film, Karen accuses Sam of being a wimp. He emphatically replies, "I am not a wimp!" and proceeds to take her to the bed, smack her around and talk dirty to her. It was funny and disturbing at the same time. Another fairly dramatic scene involves John coming clean to Carol about his affair with a call girl. Instead of being sorry about it, he brags about how great she was in bed. "It was the best I ever had!", he yells as Carol cries her eyes out.
MPSS 2 was an overly dramatic film, dramatic to the point where it stops being dramatic and starts being funny. The actors try so hard to come off as being dramatic, that they end up parodizing dramatic movies in order to get the point across. Of course the ending leaves you scratching your head, but these movies aren't about thinking, they're about sex, and there was very little of it in this one. Monique was topless a couple of times, there was a Tane McClure and a Julie Strain sighting, but Tane didn't get naked and Julie was on the screen for less than a minute. The call girl (I believe it was Tamara Landry) was okay, but nothing spectacular. I wouldn't call this movie tapeworthy; I've watched it countless times only to see Monique Parent do some drama.
Women: C- (No winners in this group. Monique was a cute little thing is this film, but the other women were simply okay looking. Kathy Shower really started to show her age at this point. She looked good in her earlier films, but she started going downhill at around this time)
Sex: D- (Brief sex scenes that don't show nearly enough to even be moderately effective.)
Story: F (Now this is a creative F. Like I said before, I don't mind a softcore film--or any film for that matter--to be dramatic in nature, but this film went overboard with the drama. Lots of crying and dramatic moments, plenty of yelling and screaming....kind of like how 'Loaded Weapon 1' made fun of the Lethal Weapon movies, this film seemed to poke fun at those overly dramatic movies Lifetime runs on the weekends. However unintended that might have been, it still came off that way to me.)
Overall: D (Not a good film at all. At times, this movie was a pain just to get through. Not one of Monique's best films, but at least I got to see her do some dramatic scenes here.)
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