“E-‘MAY’-NUELLE”
FORMAT: BLU-RAY (REWATCH)
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
(As posted on March 2nd, 2008)
For whatever reason, Laura Gemser decided not to reprise her role as “Black Emanuelle” for the first sequel in the long running series, so we’re stuck with Sharon Lesley. She’s nowhere near as hot, sexy or entertaining as Gemser, but at least she’s actually BLACK! (Gemser was Indonesian.) She’s got a nice rack too, so that helps somewhat.
In this installment, Emanuelle has amnesia (stemming from a bombing in Beirut) and gets locked up in a looney bin. Her doctor tries to get her to remember her identity, but mostly he's too busy dealing with his nymphomaniac niece who always wants to fuck him. During the course of the movie, Emanuelle is whipped in a dungeon, has sex with her photographer, gets groped by a homeless street musician, has sex with a basketball player during halftime, has a lesbian tryst with the doctor’s niece, does some nude body painting, and gets gangbanged by a bunch of bikers.
The story is told in flashbacks Rashomon style (some people remember things differently and we see the same scene play out through their different points of view), which makes things needlessly arty. This installment is rather light in the sex and sleaze department and at times almost seems like an R rated version of General Hospital. Lesley doesn't come close to matching Gemser's magnetism, but as unrelated sequels of rip-offs that don’t feature any of the same actors go, you can do a Hell of a lot worse.
Dagmar (House by the Cemetery) Lassander co-stars as the psychiatrist’s frigid wife and gets the movie’s best line: “Up your fat fanny with you and your Freud!”
AKA: The New Black Emanuelle.