Truly Dreadful Film

Strong and Moving!

Let's be realistic.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Needless to say this movie is a masterpiece! Some of the best writing, cinematography and directing I've ever seen. It is unbelievable that Jamie Pressly didn't get nominated for best actress for her amazing performance.... I'm totally blowing smoke up your butt, but holy crap Jamie Pressly is so f__kin hot in this movie! Is there any other reason someone would watch this movie? Like seriously! There are people who actually had expectations other then seeing Jamie Pressly's epic-ally perfect naked body?...what the hell is wrong with you? You obviously had the other Poison Ivy movies to reference...did you think they were going to now all of a sudden pull a good Poison Ivy Sequel out of their arse? The only thing disappointing about this movie is that it wasn't made 5-10+ years sooner pre-internet during my teen years (assuming we had a DeLorean to take Pressly back in time). This movie would have been worn out during all of the Jamie Pressly scenes and this tape would have been issued to all guys reaching puberty. I guess it had a few good years running before the internet started to "cum" on strong! Even though beautiful women are a dime a dozen on the internet these days this movie is surprisingly still relevant.

Okay, so back in the early 90s, Drew Barrymore was in an erotic thriller called Poison Ivy. She, and some nameless body double for the nude scenes, played a troubled young woman who deviously inserts herself into a family and wrecks havoc in their lives. A few years later they did Poison Ivy II, which is one of those Fraudulent Sequels where an original script is altered just enough to be barely connected to the first film. Poison Ivy II starred Alyssa Milano and, I believe, no body double for the nude scenes. Just a year after that they came out with Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, which is one of those Fraudulent Sequels where they simply remake the first film and slap different names on all the characters. This one starred Jaime Pressly as the sister of Barrymore's character and she also deviously inserts herself into a family and wrecks havoc in their lives. Not only did Pressly have no body double for the nude scenes but her nubile form is the best thing this flick has going for it. So, this franchise went from movie child star to TV child star to young actress nobody had ever heard of, a great example of Hollywood devolution.Let's be clear about something. By the time they got down to this movie, no one had any illusions about what they were making except, perhaps, the young Miss Pressly. This is a trashy melodrama without even a spark of true creativity or dramatic ambition. Having said that...it's not terrible. Yes, a couple of Benedictine monks who've taken vows of silence could have written snappier dialog. Yes, none of the characters have any existence beyond what the plot requires, with one actually existing only as a disembodied voice on the phone. Yes, it's directed with all the flair of an episode of Matt Houston. And yes, it has an ending that basically screams "We've run out of money! What's the cheapest possible way we can kill of the villain?"For all that, the young Miss Pressley looks damn good without any clothes on and even shows the makings of a fine actress, though one that still needed further training. When the story call on her to act crazy, Pressley clearly had no idea what she was doing. There's also enough activity going on to keep the film from grinding to a halt and it only minimally insults the viewer's intelligence. Michael Des Barres gives the yeoman's performance you'd expect and Megan Edwards is awfully appealing, though even more awfully is never nude.As crap movies go, Poison Ivy: The New Seduction isn't that bad. I wouldn't suggest anyone spend money to rent it but if you can find it playing unedited on TV, there are worse ways to waste 95 minutes.

Poison Ivy: The New Seduction is set in Los Angeles & starts as a powerful banker named named Ivan Greer (Michael Des Barres) arrives home at his palatial mansion, looking for his wife Catherine (Marete Van Kamp) he finds his young & beautiful housekeeper Rebecca (Athena Massey) having passionate sex with the pool guy. Having an affair with Rebecca himself Ivan is not pleased to find out that she is the local bike & every bloke in the neighbourhood has had a ride, Catherine finds out about the affair & throws Rebecca & her young daughters Violet & Ivy out. Jump forward eleven years & Catherine is dead, Ivan is a single man living with his daughter Joy (Megan Edwards) when a grown up Violet (Jaime Pressly) comes calling looking for her childhood best friend Joy. Admitting she has nowhere else to go Violet is invited to stay at the Greer residence by Joy who is happy to see her again after over a decade but Violet has sinister motives for her sudden reappearance & has revenge on her mind...Directed by Kurt Voss this is the third entry in the Poison Ivy series of films that began with the dull & uneventful erotic thriller Poison Ivy (1992) where a young Drew Barrymore played the manipulative Ivy who is implied to be the sister of Violet although never really mentioned in any significant sense, that was followed by the truly terrible Poison Ivy II (1996) which was more of a moralistic bore than a steamy thriller with the central female character portrayed more as the victim than the evil aggressor & then we come to this, Poison Ivy: The New Seduction which the makers didn't even bother to number & is in fact easily the best of the series to this point by far. Having recently watched the first two I am surprised at how closely this follows the original Poison Ivy plot with some vampish young woman preying upon a rich family, manipulating the weak daughter & seducing the rich father while playing on the death of the mother right down to sleeping in her bed & wearing her clothes. In fact this could be mistaken for a remake rather than sequel that rectifies many of the negatives from the original Poison Ivy like giving it's female villain a motive, like giving the script a little bit of humour & pace, like giving Violet some deliciously deviant, sexy & downright evil sequences unlike the tepid & bland original. From some amusing moments like Violet convincing Joy's best friend they just all had a threesome together which makes her run a mile to Joy walking in on her father Ivan & Violet in the middle of a bondage session with her father handcuffed to the bed & Violet dressed in a hot leather dominatrix outfit. There's some pace about this one as the script keeps moving, the character's are decent with Violet in particular much more of a presence than Ivy was in the original. On the negative side the rushed beginning feels like an afterthought, it's hard to believe that Joy would invite Violet to stay in her house & just suddenly pick up being best friends after eleven years & it's never really made clear why Violet wants to ruin Joy's life so much despite her main gripe being with her father Ivan who she has revenge on anyway although it's not entirely clear what happens to him as he is merely seen sat in a car supposedly having been suffocated by exhaust fumes which is hard to believe & never confirmed one way or the other.Quite well filmed the one aspect of Poison Ivy: The new Seduction that stands out as another huge improvement over the original Poison Ivy is the casting of the lovely Jaime Pressly, man she is really sexy & just plain hot looking in this as opposed to Drew Barrymore who didn't fit the part of manipulative teen temptress that well at all. Her Jaime Pressly radiates sexiness, whatever she wears in any scene she is hot, from the leather dominatrix outfit she wears to the elegant red evening dress to her tight jeans & t-shirt girl next door look whatever she's in Pressly looks fantastic & is gorgeous. An added bonus is that there's lots more nudity than the previous two entries, again Pressly is just hot whether she's wearing something or not, her body is just great & is a real asset to the film as she has several nude scenes to show it off. I wouldn't say Poison Ivy: The New Seduction or Jaime Pressly are particularly erotic in a sensual way but they are hot in a sexy slutty top shelf magazine sort of way that is great to look at & admire if you know what I mean.Although the acting is alright it's the super sexy & hot Jaime Pressly who steals every scene she's in, sh seems to be having great fun playing the lying manipulative best friend home wrecker out for revenge & Pressly just look plain gorgeous in every scene she's in. Acting pro Susan Tyrrell has a small role role as a suspicious housekeeper & has some amusing moments facing off with Pressly as they trade insults & derogatory looks.Poison Ivy: The New Seduction is a massive improvement on the previous two forgettable & bland entries even if it follows the original in plot quite closely, it adds a little motivation & a dark humorous edge as well as the lovely Jaime Pressly who is super hot as Violet. I am not sure there are many more floral female names like Ivy, Lily & Violet with the next & so far final entry Poison Ivy: The Secret Society (2008) using the name Daisy, are there anymore?

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.