The movie only seems to become a 'thriller' right at the end, as though they forgot that part of the story. His wife is not only beautiful, but she seems a lot nicer than Whirry. As a handyman, it seems unlikely he'd be able to afford to live in this neighbourhood. Has that ever been done? Whirry fixates on the handyman who put the camera in the lady's house. Set around real people who actually live within their means and have real problems. Here's a wild and crazy idea: an erotic b-movie NOT set in a soap opera style neighbourhood. Perhaps that would have been less of an issue if she had chosen more affordable accomodation. In one unintentionally amusing line of dialogue, Whirry complains she is about to run out of money, while lounging in her backyard pool. However, Al Sapienza, who played Junior Soprano's stooge Mikey Palmice, makes an appearance as a sleazy photographer. Unusually for a movie like this, there are no former a-listers slumming it, nor any actors whose names I recognized in the opening credits, save Whirry's. Normally their behaviours and motivations are totally out of the range of average people it's pure, sophisticated fantasy. After that, he basically ravishes his wife sexually, which struck me as a rare example of someone in a softcore movie doing something that actually makes sense. One of the handymen hides a small camera in a smoke detector, which was luckily placed exactly where it would need to be for him to spy on the lingerie-lady having sex. They apparently all need handymen, and have no qualms about stripping off in front of them, or receiving them in lingerie.

How amazing.) In Whirry's new classy neighbourhood, everyone looks like they stepped out of an episode of 'The Young and the Restless'. (Wow, a woman has sex in front of a camera. She has apparently lost the cop husband from the previous movie, and is relocating, perhaps to escape the notoriety the plot of the first movie earned her - however unrealistically. Again, the movie employs the device of having Whirry speak to some off-camera therapist to introduce different scenes. The direction was actually pretty amateurish. It was enjoyably silly, though it didn't provide much clue as to why Gregory Dark - here credited as Hippolyte - has been called the 'Scorsese of b-movies'. The husband tried to use this to ensnare a corrupt politician (Vincent) in a scandal for a nightclub owner (Carradine). It was the story of a neglected housewife - aren't they always - who found a way to turn on her husband by filming herself having sex. The first 'Animal Instincts' was an entertainingly silly softcore thriller with b-movie goddess Shannon Whirry, who reprises her role in this sequel, and the usual slew of has-been actors slumming it in straight-to-video land: David Carradine and Jan-Michael Vincent in this instance.

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