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Review
by Kozo: |
This sequel to HK’s seminal screwball screw-fest Sex
and Zen is actually better than the original, though
not as classically campy. Category III staple Tsui Kam-Kong
is a rich man who idolizes Lawrence Ng’s character in
the original Sex and Zen, and works hard to do
as many women as he possibly can. When marrying off
his mentally challenged son, he finds his son’s new wife (Category
III starlet of the moment Shu Qi) pretty hot, so he
takes her for his own, not knowing that she is the evil
Mirage Woman, who knows “sucking” magic that’s pretty
nasty. Loletta Lee is Tsui’s daughter, who dresses
like a man and wears Chastity Armor (for three quarters
of the film, anyway). She and the righteous Iron Man
(Ben Ng) try to stop Mirage Woman before it’s too late,
which means that she’ll have free reign to “suck” anyone
she wishes.
This film actually possesses
a plot (!) that resembles a live-action Urotskidoji movie. Like those epic Japanimation porn classics, intercourse
is a transaction that can kill, maim, destroy, and most
importantly, establish power over another individual.
It’s also a means to get nubile young things naked and
have them slink all over the place, a tactic Sex
and Zen 2 isn't shy about employing. Both Shu Qi
and Loletta Lee take it off to the delight of horny
males everywhere, which equals money in the bank from
anyone who gets a gander at either Shu Qi or Loletta
Lee. It’s all pretty sleazy, but amazingly enough, also
less gratuitously raunchy than the first. Sex is actually
used as a plot device in this film (wow!), meaning it
does more than titillate. Sex actually advances and
furthers the film’s plot—such as it is, anyway.
Ultimately, Sex and Zen 2 lacks the original’s
over-the-top campiness, but it has an entertaining over-the-top
sleaziness all its own. Ah the wonders of Wong Jing.
(Kozo 1996) |
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