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Cruel Intentions 2 [VHS]

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Now, I liked the first CRUEL INTENTIONS starring Sarah Michelle Gellar (it was entertaining in a sick, twisted kind of way, and the production values were great), but I didn't even know they made a sequel until I saw this on cable! Well, after watching it, now I know why I've heard nothing about it. This was apparently supposed to be a television series called "Manchester Prep", but it's clear why it was rejected -- the subject matter is just too risque. There's more gratuitous nudity and sexual innuendo in Cruel Intentions 2 than in the original film.

This movie stunk worse than a New York subway car in August without any air conditioning. You thought the lesbian kiss scene in the first movie was a little over the top? Man, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Cruel Intentions 2 is really nothing but a soft-porn B-movie. The first movie was a "modern retelling" of the "classic" story Dangerous Liaisons. Cruel Intentions 2 is a "prequel" that leaves almost no taboo unexplored. Since this is a "family" site, I will not go into any graphic detail here. Suffice it to say that virgin eyes should not behold what transpires in this movie (Scenes like an innocent freshman girl getting aroused while learning to ride a horse, twins in a shower, Valmont's stepmother giving him a massage...you get the idea).

Anyway, consider this a public service announcement: beware if you turn on your tv and are flipping through the cable channels and you come across a little movie called CRUEL INTENTIONS 2. Or if you see this on your videostore shelf. Or if you were thinking of buying this film. The production values and the acting and the story are nowhere near as good as the original. You might find some of the nudity and erotic content enjoyable if you're looking for that sort of thing... ...You have been warned.

After watching it, a buddy and I vowed we'd buy this movie when it came out on DVD. Why you might ask, why would we spend the money for a movie that everyone on this site and others have labeled as a waste? Two words: Oh horsie. The idea of a girl getting herself off by rubbing herself with a horsie is tasteless and crude. I'm taseless and crude. If you're taseless and crude and love to laugh at horrible acting, with some sex in the middle, but don't want to get caught purchasing "mature" video's, this is what you want. Well, not exactly, but it's pretty close.

I was a big fan of Cruel Intentions so when I heard of the T.V. series that was supposed to air last December I was excited, but then quicky dissapointed to learn that it had been cancelled. Well it recently aired on cable the other night and it was really not as bad as most people would think for a kind of straight to video movie. It is a prequel so you get to see how Kathryn and Sebastian really met and what ends up leading them to their little games they play with innocent guys and girls. Unfortunately none of the actors from the Cruel Intentions movie are in this sequel/prequel but it really was not that bad!! I can see how they would not air the series on T.V. cause it definately is not suited to be on regular T.V. but I found it to be funny and entertaining. It kept me interested the whole time. Watch it and see!

Now, I liked the first CRUEL INTENTIONS starring Sarah Michelle Gellar (it was entertaining in a sick, twisted kind of way, and the production values were great), but I didn't even know they made a sequel until I saw this on cable! Well, after watching it, now I know why I've heard nothing about it. This was apparently supposed to be a television series called "Manchester Prep", but it's clear why it was rejected -- the subject matter is just too risque. There's more gratuitous nudity and sexual innuendo in Cruel Intentions 2 than in the original film.

This movie stunk worse than a New York subway car in August without any air conditioning. You thought the lesbian kiss scene in the first movie was a little over the top? Man, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Cruel Intentions 2 is really nothing but a soft-porn B-movie. The first movie was a "modern retelling" of the "classic" story Dangerous Liaisons. Cruel Intentions 2 is a "prequel" that leaves almost no taboo unexplored. Since this is a "family" site, I will not go into any graphic detail here. Suffice it to say that virgin eyes should not behold what transpires in this movie (Scenes like an innocent freshman girl getting aroused while learning to ride a horse, twins in a shower, Valmont's stepmother giving him a massage...you get the idea).

Anyway, consider this a public service announcement: beware if you turn on your tv and are flipping through the cable channels and you come across a little movie called CRUEL INTENTIONS 2. Or if you see this on your videostore shelf. Or if you were thinking of buying this film. The production values and the acting and the story are nowhere near as good as the original. You might find some of the nudity and erotic content enjoyable if you're looking for that sort of thing, but be careful. The actors look EXTREMELY young. You have been warned.

How can a movie with lesbian kissing, booby, no male nudity, and sub-par acting be bad? The blatant disregard for morals and values was great. How you can not appreciate the directer's ability to handle so many taboo subjects in one movie is beyond us. Now while your watching the begining, you might just think it is a cheezy, low budget version of the first one; it is the ending however shows how genius the movie was. At the very end, keep an eye out for the driver who fondles the freshmen girl. THIS IS A MODERN DAY CLASSIC IF THERE EVER WAS.

For being a scrapped TV show turned into a movie, it wasnt that bad, I know Ive seen worse!! My only problem with it was the lame jokes (plenty abound)and recycled plot lines and jokes ("this sure dosent taste like a iced tea", "Its from long island") Coming from the same team except for the actors, Who incedently arent that bad, its just the material they have to work with, I expected a little better. Some of it was interesting but overall not a very good prequel. And they show like 20 scenes in the preview that arent even in the movie, including those scenes might have made the movie more interesting and a little longer that 87 min.

First there was the classic Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Then the American version Dangerous Liasons. Then the story was moved to a younger generation and we had Cruel Intentions. Each of these three have reasons to be recommended. Not the latest one, however.

Cruel Intentions 2: Manchester Prep seems like a cheapened form of Cruel Intentions. The first was classy, bold, and stylish. The second was crass, obnoxious and just bad.

Sebastian seems a little more sympathetic in this version (we actually get to see the parents). He is just a very smart kid with a promiscuous father. He is not the cultured snob of Cruel Intentions. His step-sister Kathryn is now a spoiled brat who seems somewhat of a klutz at trying to be cultured. This is definitely a step down from Gellar's Privileged B-tch of the first movie.

The film is full of the swearing and nudity that were nicely absent from the first. One can feel that nudity and swearing were the main reason for this film being made. The idea that it was to kick off a Manchester Prep series would be disappointing as the movies ideas would not translate to the more restricted television format (although the original CI might have made it).

The movie's ending makes little sense (like much of the movie) and any sympathy we might have had for Sebastian is tossed out the window.

The central mistake of this movie lies in attempting to imitate the original Cruel Intentions production: attempting being the key word. Indeed, everything that made Cruel Intentions an enjoyable viewing experience is lacking in this poorly made and somewhat pointless prequel.

First, there is no real plot: the `story' merely drifts from one scene to the next with no sense of purpose or direction.

Second, the characters are unconvincing and shallow: the first Cruel Intentions set high standards in terms of acting and succeeded in producing extreme, but broadly convincing, personas in the form of Sebastian and Katherine; this prequel in no way reflects those standards.

Third, the art of the original Cruel Intentions was to mix a heady combination of sexual innuendo, power lust and downright nastiness into a more complex and intricate storyline: in other words, although the movie was somewhat racy, there was a point to every scene and action. Cruel Intentions 2 could not be further from this: graphic scenes and smutty jokes are there to serve as just that - graphic scenes and smutty jokes. The result is a rather immature, and quite unfunny, production that comes across as insipid and, at most times, rather boring.

In conclusion, even as a stand alone movie Cruel Intentions 2 would be weak; however, when compared to the original it isn't worth even the most cursory of glances.

What was the point in this movie? And what's the point in bringing out a third one?! (Yes there's a third one coming out this summer!) We don't need to know how Sebastian became what he was in the first one. (Confused yet?) The first one explains perfectly well, and this was basically just to cash in. It was actually a TV series to begin with, but Fox cancelled it after seeing Cherie being a naughty girl on a horse. There was really no point in releasing it on DVD, making stupid people like me thinking were getting something good out of it. And it even uses some of the same lines as the first one! "Massage the tongue" sound familiar to anyone?! The whole kissing scene between Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair in the first one. A couple of the lines are repeated from the first, and for no apparent reason, two girls are shown in the shower topless. Just to "entice" Sebastian. Just an excuse for guys to see it obviously.

Don't buy this. Stay safe watching the first one, with none of the Z-list stars in this one. And whatever you do, don't buy the third one!!!

Okay, it was an alright movie but compared to the first one it really was just not good. i mean they use so much stuff from the first one that its like wait i thought this was suppose to be a little different. i really dont recommand this movie unless your curious.