Midnight Tease II (1995)

Fantastic!

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Well, stripper movies have a formula, and this film never strays from it. Lots and lots of siliconized boobies on display on the stage, and on the pole. A few scenes in the backstage dressing room where the girls chat with one another. And a lame plot about the main character going undercover in the club to find out who murdered her sister, who was a real dancer at the club. It is not clear at first that she is the sister. I guess you would have to have seen the first "Midnight Tease" which I have not. More than halfway through, I was impressed with the level of acting going on, given the format, but towards the end even somewhat talented actresses sank under the weight of the crummy script. All of the girls were quite beautiful especially Kimberly Kelley, Julie K. Smith, Griffin Drew, and Erin Ashley. Special kudos to the lovely Kim Kopf for having beautiful, but not gigantic or altered breasts.

This movie is so god-awful! There are literally only four scenes! One scene: the unseen murderer killing strippers with a plastic bag over the head. None of the victims even seems to attempt to tear a hole in the flimsy little plastic bag. They just die. Then it's on to scene two: unattractive women with huge fake knockers dancing topless to a seemingly endless array of pop tunes which were never popular or indeed heard outside of this movie, as far a I can tell. The third scene is the "suspense" scene at the club as the new stripper (ex-penthouse pet Kimberley Kelley) who, you see, isn't actually a stripper at all, but is actually undercover investigating the smothering death of her sister, another stripper (these events presumably took place in Midnight Tease 1, which I haven't seen) snoops around for clues. The fourth scene is the scene where the Macguffin character, and artist (played by Paul Douglas) who likes to go to the strip club to find his muses for his paintings (P.S. Unintentional laughs abound when his work is shown, and is of a very low quality.) Take these four scenes and repeat them over and over again until you dash in a dramatic conclusion. Very boring, bottom of the barrel sleaze from Jim Wynorski and his buddies. Absolutely nothing to recommend.

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT* As much as I enjoyed the original, "Midnight Tease 2" proves itself to be superior with twice the breasts and twice the tease. As good as Lisa Boyle was in the first one, Julie Smith and Kimberly Kelly prove to be an unstoppable combo of stripper power. "Midnight Tease 2" even looks like it was filmed in an actual strip club. The first movie's strip club looked like a cheap set. The girls are hotter in this one as well. This is all my way of saying that "Midnight Tease 2" may well be the best stripper movie ever made. I thought that "Midnight Tease" had it in the bag but then along came Julie Smith and friends to prove me wrong.Once again, I must praise Julie Smith for being such a super hot babe. She's looking mighty fine in this one. She has about three stripping scenes and they are all hot. Kimberly Kelly is the star of the show and she makes the most of it. She has two lap dance scenes, ("I've never done a lap dance before…"), and two stage stripping scenes. She's got it going on. She's not quite hanging in Smith's league but she's up there.So once again some story about murdered strippers plays out as the girls bump and grind on stage. This time the girls are being suffocated by some madman. Who is the murderer and does anybody really care? Of course no one cares. But since you can't really have a stripper movie without some sort of "plot", you'll have to make the most of it. You'd think it would be enough just to watch a movie about a couple of days in the lives of strippers. Well, it'd be enough for me. Especially if one of the strippers is named Julie Smith.

I watched this movie at about 3 am one night, and perhaps it was just the late hour, but I was pleasantly surprised by this film. Aside from the aesthetically pleasing aspects of the movie (I'll leave that to your imagination), I actually didn't know who the killer was right up until the end. A feat most better movies can't pull off. I recommend renting this on a lonely, late night, if you have nothing better to do. This movie also contained a brilliant cameo by a flawless look-alike of an aged Dave Jourabchi.