Real life couple Edwin and Summer Brown (a/k/a director "Edwin Durell" and producer "Sandra Winters") continued their string of excellent couples efforts with this superb sequel to their 1984 instant classic. The creative game playing persists between husband and wife Ben and Terri Conti, with John Leslie reprising his award-winning role and Lois Ayres proving an unexpected treat filling in for ravishing Rachel Ashley. Ayres would rapidly grow into the decade's follow-up queen, taking the lead in Greg Dark's imaginative DEVIL IN MISS JONES update. Looking nothing like her predecessor, she nevertheless turns in a warmly sensitive performance as the wife whose best-selling book entitled, natch, Every Woman Has a Fantasy eclipses her husband's achievements as an actor which causes marital friction. Understanding of her mate's fear of inadequacy, Terri humors him through a series of increasingly outlandish yet mutually beneficial fantasy scenarios. The opening scene really allows Leslie to strut his stuff as a swishy masseur taking liberties at the health spa. Their other major set-up focuses mostly on Terri, as she's picked up by a face unseen Limo driver (no prizes for guessing !) who establishes an astonishingly elaborate kinky universe within the car's limited confines. Though clearly consensual throughout, this intricate scene does involve a certain amount of restraint, meaning it has been drastically shortened for VCA's current DVD release, robbing a mesmerizing encounter of much of its gradually escalating erotic effect.
Plot has Terri invited to Bob and Carol's cable TV show to plug her book. Played with good humor by stalwart Paul Thomas and back door princess Keli Richards (whose line-reading inability makes her a hilarious scene-stealer), these two share a wide-open marriage clearly intended to accommodate any passing Ted and Alice. Before the finale predictably finds both couples spinning the bottle and switching partners, Terri's asked to comment on Bob's favorite chapter, involving best friends Bonnie and Lisa luring the latter's unsuspecting spouse Mike into a threesome. Another then real life couple, perhaps selected because of this, appears here. Sultry brunette Kari Foxx teases the hell out of boyfriend Troy Tanier, ironically cast as husband to blond bombshell Nina Hartley. Unable to make up their minds at the lingerie store, they simply brought home everything they liked and it's up to Troy to choose as they parade in their skimpy outfits before him. Talk about making it hard on the poor guy ! With each segment a frugal four in total mounting in erotic intensity until it's almost too much to bear, the Browns once again establish themselves at the top of the fornication film food chain. Obviously not inclined to break up a winning team, they brought in their regular contributors on the production end. This means Teru Hayashi behind the camera, creating soft 'n' hazy visual poetry, Terrance O'Reily editing intertwining narrative threads to keep the attention span from flagging and recycling most of D'Artagnan's admittedly awesome soundtrack from the original. If, in the end, this feels a tad more slapdash than its predecessor, that's only because that happened to be one of the most lavish last gasps of adult's Golden Age then drawing to a close, with this near-equal sequel representing something of an eloquent epilogue to that bygone era.
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