Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Wordiezett So much average

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

DigitalRevenantX7 In 1985, Rebecca, a maid working at the Greer mansion as well as living there with her two young daughters, Ivy & Violet, is caught by Ivan Greer having sex with the pool cleaner. But Ivan's wife mistakes this for an affair between Ivan & Rebecca. The maid & her daughters are soon evicted from the mansion. A decade later, Violet returns to the Greer home, where the Greer's now adult daughter Joy is living with her widowed father & a surly housemaid. At first, the Greers welcome Violet to stay with them, but Violet is just like her late sister Ivy – a stone cold seductress who works as a dominatrix in her spare time & who wants revenge against the Greers for her mother & sister. Using her expert manipulation skills, Violet seduces both Ivan & Joy's fiancée Michael.The original Poison Ivy was a lightweight softcore thriller that found a massive cult audience on video & late-night cable television, successful enough to kick start the softcore erotic thriller trend of the 1990s. Which is somewhat surprising for this reviewer since the film was nothing more than bubblegum erotica that made a fair amount of pretence to be more than a slim tale of a young woman seducing her way & ultimately destroying the rich family she initially befriends. It was not a bad film but not particularly good either. While it may not have been anything special (passable at best), it did spawn three sequels.Poison Ivy: The New Seduction is the second of these three sequels. The first sequel was nothing to do with the story of the original, instead being a flimsy piece of drama, this one manages to tie in the story of the original with a new story for this entry (although I found it somewhat dubious that the name of Drew Barrymore's character here named Ivy as she was in the original, were it not for the fact that the name was given by her friend), having a similar plot with a young woman tearing apart a rich family mainly by seducing the father & killing anyone who interferes with her plan.The big difference between the original & the sequels is that the basic setup of the first film was never going to open the doors for the sequels to exist. But Karen Kelly writes a story that is more of a remake of the original, only with the one thing that the original Poison Ivy lacked for its seductress – motivation. In the original, Drew Barrymore's character had no reason to do what she did. Here, the reason is given, with Ivy & Violet's mother expelled from their mansion for a misunderstanding (& an uncontrollable sex drive, something the daughters inherited). The film also has a higher bodycount & Jaime Pressly's character of Violet is a much more hardened soul than her sister, easily donning dominatrix garb & even boasting to one victim that one of her clients includes a judge. This film's story is considerably better handled & more hardcore than the original, although it still pales in comparison to the flood of erotic thrillers that came out during the decade.Which brings us to the $32,000 question – how's the skin? Well, Jaime Pressly has ample moments to show off her breasts & butt but the actual love scenes are glossed over & hardly seen. The only exception is the first one between Athena Massey & the pool cleaner. While not a remarkable film in any aspect & definitely going to be seen as a classic, Poison Ivy: The New Seduction is an interesting film that has enough T&A to satisfy those who like this sort of film genre.

lastliberal Wow! Violet's mom (Athena Massey) and the pool boy don't waste any time in getting down to business, and we aren't 10 minutes into the movie when a grown up Violet (Jaime Pressly) is showing us everything she has in the bathtub. This is a good start.Soon she is servicing Joy's (Megan Edwards) fiancée Michael (Greg Vaughan), and getting daddy (Michael Des Barres) all excited swimming topless.It is so fun to see what Violet's devious mind will come up with next.I enjoyed seeing Susan Tyrrell (Buddy Boy) again.This is definitely Jaime Pressly's most skintastic performance and one you will never see again now that she has hit the big time.

Anglik Incredible. One has to see this to believe it. It's amazing a thing of such low quality has made it past the editing room. What's even more incredible is the presence of a major star and sex goddess of nowadays, Jamie Pressly ("Jack & Jill" et al.) The redeeming factor: it was her first flick ever. Fortunately someone saw in her the potential this film does no justice to.

ChristianBrenner SPOILER ALERT I don't think this movie is worst, but it isn't really good. I think the only reason to see or buy this movie is Jaime Pressly. Jaime plays a wonderful role as an frustrated girl who everybody didn't understand. The effects is, she turns into a psycho and kills the family from the lover of her mom. The camera is also one of the best (just look the positions in the pool house scene), and this is one of the films which has no goofs.