Mischievous (1996) User Reviews

Mischievous

[allmoviesfan · 5/10 · 13 January 2023]

After prologue where we see Angela (played by the very attractive Jennifer Burton) pleasuring herself on the phone whilst appearing to coerce a man into jumping off a rooftop, we meet Jeff (Doug Jeffrey), whose life is going pretty well until he attends his high school reunion and has a run-in with Angela, his old flame from high school, who is clearly not quite right, and drags him into a world of sexual experimentation where she dares him to do things, and he seems powerless to say no. This leads to issues not only with the law but with his job at an architecture firm and fiancé. He and Angela have sex in a lot of weird places, including on a rooftop at night, whilst holding a loaded gun. That's a new one.

Mischievous is notable for featuring lots of sex scenes full stop, but many of them out of the bedroom, which makes a nice change from the usual and, of course, Jennifer Burton is very attractive, with a killer body, and spends a lot of time naked, which is exactly what anyone watching this film is after. One of the better 90's softcore movies, and one of the darkest, too.

(On IMDB, this is shown as a follow-on from Friend of the Family II. Seems completely unrelated.)

Great movie, quite possibly Jennifer Burton's best...A-

[Smooth B · 23 May 2002]

Jennifer Burton's performance in this movie was quite good, and dare I say it was better than her role in "Playtime", where she seemed to be upstaged and outshined by Monique Parent.

The story itself is quite simple: Jeff (Doug Jeffery) is an architect. He works with his longtime buddy, Gabe, at an architectural firm. Jeff's engaged and will be married quite soon to a half-way decent looking woman. Everything seems to be going alright, right?

Well, he goes to his high school reunion and runs into an old flame from school, Angela (Jennifer Burton). He doesn't exactly run into her, however....she sends him some sort of device that makes a smokescreen, causing everyone to high-tail it out of the room. In walks Angela a few moments later, wearing nothing but a red bra and matching panties, gliding effortlessly around Jeff. He saw the bait, and he took it.

For the next 80 minutes, Angela makes Jeff jump through hoops and climb walls to have sex with her. Every time it's a different "dare" for Jeff to try to complete. Sex on a rooftop, breaking into a house and having sex there....Angela even dresses up as a hooker and offers to have sex with Jeff in his car for $20! The things she makes him go through, it's quite amusing.

What Jeff doesn't know (at least not at the beginning) is that Angela isn't the envelope-pushing, live-on-the-edge sex goddess she appears to be....it's all part of her "master plan" which is revealed in the last 20-odd minutes. I won't ruin it for the 8 or 9 of you who are gonna stick around for the whole thing, but let's just say it's not very shocking.

Jennifer Burton really showed me something in this flick. She may be as flat as the aluminum siding on my house, but she knows how to move in just the right way. About halfway through the movie, she has a phone sex scene with Jeff, while Jeff is in the middle of a business meeting! Her actions in this scene reminded me of "Playtime" when she and Monique Parent made each other squeal on the couch. This phone call causes Jeff to miss his meeting, which in turn gets him fired. This pushes him off the deep end, vowing to get revenge on Angela. "Now, it's my turn," he says. Oh boy.....

The "Women" grade isn't that high, but the better-than-your-average-softcore-movie script gets high marks from me, so it boosts the overall grade a bit. The sex scenes moved the story along, as usual. Nothing remarkable in them, but Jenny does a lot of moaning.

Women: B Sex: B+ Story: A Overall: A-

Just plain bad.

[Susie-7 · 2/10 · 12 June 1999]

This movie was awful. The lead female could act about as well as my cat, and my cat is dead. I have a feeling she went to these kind of movies because she couldn't act well enough to be in even a low budget mainstream film. Not that anyone watches porn, soft-core or not, for the acting. But still, if one actually tries to pay attention to something more than the sex, this character does not come off as remotely believable. My main problem wa with the lead male's inane reactions to things. I know people who do stupid things, but having phone sex in the middle of an important presentation with his boss standing five feet away? I think not. This movie tries, although perhaps not that hard, to be a psychological thriller, and it fails miserably. Stick to the sex and leave the storylines to real movies. Also, for a porno movie, I found it completely unerotic, if that's a word. I think that woman's horrific acting wrecked it for me. Even her enjoyment of all the sex seemed unreal, and even bad pornos usually have people who look like they're enjoying what they're doing.

But this movie was better than Valley of the Dolls, which didn't have any real sex and had even worse acting and a more ridiculous storyline, so I give this movie a 2.

Only for Jennifer Burton fans!!

[insomniac_rod · 7/10 · 28 July 2006]

First of all, this movie has nothing to do with the "Friend of the Family" movies although it is labeled as "Friend of the Family III" in some regions. Sadly, there isn't Shauna O'Brien or Lisa Boyle in this movie.

Anyways, the movie is perfect on it's on way. Jennifer Burton may not be as hot as Shauna but she's very sexy and of course, beautiful. She has many sex scenes that I can't even remember exactly. The highlights are a sex scene in a rooftop (a la Private Lessons II), a sex scene and one in the kitchen. The rest of them are pretty average but steamy. Burton really knows how to act sexy and look foxy.

She's one of the hottest women I've seen in soft core. Her performance makes this movie watchable.

Excellent

[Briggsy · 10/10 · 8 May 1999]

This movie was great. Great sex, very erotic. The lead woman was very sexy, great strip scene. Good thriller action too. Worth renting. I own it.

Mike Sedan's best film.

[BlackJack_B · 9/10 · 11 February 2002]

Jennifer Burton proves you don't need blonde hair or man-made body parts to look gorgeous or alluring. She dominates this film as Angela, a woman who comes to her 10th year high school reunion to see if her best friend from HS, Jeff Wise (Doug Jeffrey), is eager to play more of the games of "dare" they did back then. Jeff, who has a good but boring lifestyle (good job, nice car, engaged to a man-made babe but bored) is more than eager. From the first dare of swimming nude in the school's pool to the more progressive dares that end up wreaking havoc on his life, it's an exciting game of cat and mouse eventually changing when Jeff turns the tables on Angela after he's been dominated and has lost all the things he really didn't like.

The acting here is pretty good, with Doug's character being someone you couldn't hate and Jennifer's being the bad girl all men wish they knew. The secondary characters aren't so good, especially Jeff's buddy who looks like Penn from Penn and Teller and another buddy, a black police detective who shouts out his lines in anger as well as several man-made blondes who do nothing except hurt the film. Also, the lady who played Lacy wasn't in the film that much; I liked her for some reason. Burton delivers a great performance, whether challenging Jeff to do something, making torrid love or doing a spectacular striptease to hold Jeff's attention after he's lost his job and fiancée so she can abuse him some more. And yes, the great music that is a hallmark of Mike Sedan's films are here, including "Fireman's Blues" which was in Lap Dancing.

All in all, another winner in the MFV soft-core erotica arena. I hope to see more of Burton in the future.