You may remember a while back we checked out Operation Desert Stormy, which was a fantastic Bond meets porn spy film written and directed by Stormy Daniels herself. Since Desert Stormy was such a success, it was inevitable I suppose that episode 2 - Operation Tropical Stormy was released soon after. There is always a danger with sequels. If the first instalment is really good, chances are the sequel won't live up to the original and will result in disappointment. I think there is an actual term for this. People refer to it as the Police Academy effect. Anyway, regardless of the risk of disappointment for us, you, our reader, need to know, so we bunged it on and settled in to watch.
When last we met our brave (and accidental) heroes, George (Stephen St Croix) and Rachel (Stormy Daniels) had just managed to save the world from the evil Hussein, assisted by two dapper British secret agents Jacks and Watson. This instalment takes place two months later. George, for reasons of national security (and presumably for reasons of Mr St Croix being unavailable) has to be surgically transformed into Evan Stone. Our favourite British agents are doing what British agents do - screwing pretty women while waiting to be knighted (come on... you know that's what Bond does after the end credits of every film). Anyway, after George's surgery and an accident during Watson's knighthood that revealed far more of the Queen (a cameo by Nina Hartley) than anyone wants to see, our heroes are thrust unwillingly into the action again.
This time its everyone's favourite loony Kim Jong Il trying to poision the USA with doctored BBQ sauce. After a slight accident involving the president's yacht and a rocket launcher, George and Rachel are stranded on a tropical island. After a few adventures with cannibals and wild animals (no they don't fuck the animals, yes they do fuck the cannibals) they join up with Jacks and Watson to save the world from evil once again. And fuck lots of stuff.
I don't know whether it was just our low expectations, this being a sequel, but this one seemed to be more about the sex than the story. I know its a porn but in Desert Stormy the sex fitted with the story. If you are making a big budget feature that's the way it has to be. If you are making a sausage-fest then not so much. In this one it looked like they crammed in a few extra scenes and bent the story to kind of make it fit. There were probably two or three scenes that really didn't need to be there, story wise. It was also over 3 hours. When all your scenes are 20 odd minutes long, if you want lots of different scenes, you end up with a long movie. The classics got away with it because their scenes are only 5-10 minutes long (pre-Viagra, remember?). This is the sort of movie you rent, watch straight away, take it straight back and still get fined for being late. Fortunately the scenes weren't the 30-45 minute marathons you see in some other films or we would still be watching it.
This wasn't a bad film by any means. The sex was still hot, the story was still good and there is a nice twist at the end which I won't give away. Tommy Gunn does well again as Kim's chief henchman. He seems to be your "go to" guy when you want an evil dude in your film. Evan and Stormy acquit themselves well as the clueless couple. Ms Daniels has done another good job with this one. Just not quite as good a job as she did with the first. This one also ended on a cliffhanger with the words "to be continued" on screen, so clearly Ms Daniels knows a good thing when she sees one and Operation Something (Snow?) Stormy will no doubt be in production even as we speak. What worries me is that what we will get is a string of Operation Something Stormy films, each slightly less good than the last, until the whole thing has been milked as much as possible.
One thing I was pleased to see was natural boobs on a good two thirds of the women. I have been seeing more and more natural boobs appearing over the last few years and I really hope that's a trend that continues. I think its the Alt Porn influence coming through into the mainstream which is a good thing. Mind you, I can happily do without the other alt influences that are coming through with the natural boobs - massive tattoos and heaps of piercings. I'm really not a fan of either.
So that's Tropical Stormy. Not quite as good as Desert Stormy but still worth a look.
You can buy Operation Tropical Stormy here through Uncut DVDs in Australia.
