The sequel to the nudity and sex filled film that sounds more like a nature film is just as good as the first film. Shannon Whirry returns as the very fit housewife, Joanna Cole. This time instead of the husband filming the wife there is no husband (I don't know why) and the next door neighbour is watching Whirry being sexual. She knows that he is watching and that he has even set up a secret camera (I don't know if he knew she knew) and so she invites many people round to have sex, men and women (just like the first film). Unfortunately, the guy's wife knows what he is doing and gets very angry. Again, I only like this for all the sex and nudity from the heavenly breasted Whirry. Good!
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jboothmillard15 June 2005
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Groverdox20 January 2019The 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.
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 husband tried to use this to ensnare a corrupt politician (Vincent) in a scandal for a nightclub owner (Carradine). 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 direction was actually pretty amateurish.
Again, the movie employs the device of having Whirry speak to some off-camera therapist to introduce different scenes. 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. (Wow, a woman has sex in front of a camera. How amazing.)
In Whirry's new classy neighbourhood, everyone looks like they stepped out of an episode of "The Young and the Restless". They apparently all need handymen, and have no qualms about stripping off in front of them, or receiving them in lingerie.
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. 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. Normally their behaviours and motivations are totally out of the range of average people; it's pure, sophisticated fantasy.
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. However, Al Sapienza, who played Junior Soprano's stooge Mikey Palmice, makes an appearance as a sleazy photographer.
In one unintentionally amusing line of dialogue, Whirry complains she is about to run out of money, while lounging in her backyard pool. Perhaps that would have been less of an issue if she had chosen more affordable accomodation. Here's a wild and crazy idea: an erotic b-movie NOT set in a soap opera style neighbourhood. Set around real people who actually live within their means and have real problems. Has that ever been done?
Whirry fixates on the handyman who put the camera in the lady's house. As a handyman, it seems unlikely he'd be able to afford to live in this neighbourhood. His wife is not only beautiful, but she seems a lot nicer than Whirry.
The movie only seems to become a "thriller" right at the end, as though they forgot that part of the story. One of the characters, who should have been established as a bad guy earlier, does bad guy stuff.
"Animal Instincts II" is about average for a b-grade softcore thriller (is there any other type?). I doubt I'll remember anything about it. -
allmoviesfan15 April 2023If you're watching this for any other reason than the gorgeous Shannon Whirry - who, as an earlier review posits, probably spent more time naked than clothed throughout the course of the film's 1hr 35min run time - then...well, you're probably lying to yourself.
Ms Whirry is the undoubted star of the show, and she shows off her body on numerous occasions (with men and women), all for the benefit of her next-door neighbour, a security expert, who plants cameras in her house for his viewing pleasure.
A slightly better film than the original, though the plot here - like in many of these 90's softcore movies on the lower end of the rating scale - seems to just be thrown in to separate the sex scenes.
Yes, I'm looking forward to watching Animal Instincts III. -
lez_friend9 January 2002Star Shannon has the most natural-looking rack out of all soft-porn leading ladies, making movies like this watchable over and over. But Elizabeth Sandifer stole the show for me in this medium paced erotic drama, appearing real and exciting in her sexuality, and is worth watching a great deal more. Alas, the wooden-faced Woody Brown dulls the screen again.
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BandSAboutMovies22 January 2022Joanne Fleming (Shannon Whirry) likes to be watched.
Her neighbor Steve (Woody Brown) likes to watch and has put cameras in every room of her apartment.
But when she falls for Eric (Al Sapienza) instead of him, well, things may not go so well.
You have to love a movie that's made for people who want to watch that looks at the bad side of voyeurism. Kind of like when Gregory Dark made adult films, he made things that were as violently non-sexy as possible, like men in white hoods having sex with a black woman and fish slapping people as a continually returning metaphor. He's the man that ended New Waves Hookers 2 with a bomb inside Madison Stone's ass killing her and the hero. He's not going to make something normal just because he's making something mainstream. Also, consider that making steamy, foggy and neon-lit softcore films as mainstream in this example.
Dark is in the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame, while cinematographer Wally Pfister and editor Bob Murawski, who worked on this movie, would respectively win Oscars for Inception and The Hurt Locker. -
phuckracistgop12 February 2024I don't know planet these writers and directors reside on, but reality does not exist there to say the least. Because if they expect any of this goulash of mumble jumble is to resonate as even remotely believable, they thought wrong.
Even the homeowner/Landlord would have reported the B&E when Shannon Whirry character spoke about her disgust with the hidden camera. And how did Shannon Whirry's character end up with a known sleazebag in Eric. Hell she stated that when she first met him while looking for employment.
I guess in the film industry, these writers will never evolve past the woman is dumber than a brick mentality when it comes to reporting something like assault/breaking and entering/invasion of privacy and general creeps roaming about.
Last but not least, how could she advise the wife to give a homicidal maniac a second chance??? -
kosmasp13 February 2023No pun intended - I might have not meant Kingdom after all. And while the first one seemed satisfying enough (yes I am reusing jokes/puns from my previous review - I can live with that - and all that has some connection to the movie and its ... well plot), they seem to have thought: why not make another one? I have to admit, it does seem that Shannon plays a different character in this one, so no need to have seen the first one (unless you want to watch a better version of whatever it is we are getting here).
I am not entirely sure ... doesn't matter though. Doesn't matter if you follow the story ot not either ... especially because even if you didn't everything will be clear in the end ... which is almost a shame .. the movie misses an opportunity to make it interesting in adding a layer or two ... the physical attributes of Shannon are the main selling point(s) ... so if you are here for that, I wonder why you still are reading reviews ... go ahead, knock yourself out ... it's probably what it is called ... or was called at one point in time ... yes pun intended, finally ... give in to your instincts. -
insomniac_rod22 December 2006I don't know how many times I've watched this movie. Thirty? Probably fifty? I don't know. This is one of the sexiest, hottest soft core erotic thrillers.
The plot is also a major turn on. Shannon Whirry gets turned on when a specific guy watches her having hot kinky sex.
She knows he wants her but he is married but she does not gives a damn about it. She invites many male friends and gives them what they want. Rough sex and bits of light S&M.
The sex scenes are spectacular and steamy. You can't get better if you ask me.
Please, do a favor and get into the wonderful world of Shannon Whirry. It's a shame she's that underrated because she had the skills and the looks to become a huge star.
This is probably Whirry's hottest movie. She's a B-Queen and in this movie she demonstrates why. -
TheBigHarsh30 March 2014Ooh boy, hot wonderful movie, great acting for B movie standards, amazing soundtrack so fits the sex scenes. Shannon Whirry she is goddess, so beautiful, gorgeous and busty, I mean her tits it's unbelievable how much they are perfect. Good done job from director Gregory Dark because this work is better than the previous one. I recommend this soft core flick absolutely.
The story is more interesting than the first one, but it's nothing to bother about because who cares for a well-made plot when he watching movies like these! especially if they have full-loaded busty women as Shannon with her killer body and face!. -
RainOnMe28 November 2000This follow-up to the original Animal Instincts delivers on the main objective -- lots of breasts and simu-sex. Shannon Whirry spends (almost) more time with her clothes off than on. However, after a while you may start tiring of the many views of Whirry's enhanced breasts and start wishing for more of the neighbor's wife and the neighbor's lusty customer. Still, worth the watching.