Release Year: 1982
Cast: John Holmes, Jesie St. James, Rhonda Jo Petty
Genres: Retro
Though promised in the 1977 Casanova end credits, like the next Bond video is announced, Casanova II arrived five years later with a thud. Its mix of aged and new footage is a mess, but makes it more interesting to see for a cinema structuralist like me.
1st edition credited to star Mr. John C. Holmes direction (using Carlos Tobalina’s crew – I assume the nice man CT was directly supervising) boasted relatively lavish creation values for porno, then in its experimental phase of aspiring to box office legitimacy in the wake of Gerard Damiano’s breakthrough hits. Part II credited to Tobalina (under his fake name Troy Benny; man takes full cinematography credit beneath his actual moniker) starts out with recycling of the places, costumes and extras from the original, then spins off on a rather ludicrous set of story lines, somewhere between reality and these difficult-to- follow scripts of TV’s "General Hospital".
Casanova supposedly a , adopted by a Count, who grew up to be Don Juan.The is a disguised as man dueler who Casanova stabbed but is nursed back to health and dude humps her, resulting in Bjorn Beck, an unlikely non-actor with a massive python who doesn’t remotely fit the role of a 21-year- aged legendary sex symbol.
Beck’s rousing adventures are pretty dumb: buddy a Count De Leon who has tapped him to surrogate- his (a recurring Tobalina film theme concerns the Count’s perennial limp penis). Tobalina frequently uses his horrible "distorting lens" effect which creates multiple haloed images during a sex scene in kaleidoscopic fashion, ruining lots of both Part I and Episode II footage.
At the 55-minute mark (we’re 60% done), Holmes returns to stop the cliff-hanger (but unsuspenseful storyline that finished Episode I), cast in binary role as Casanaova’s fine grandson John. The fact this C was alive in 1751 makes this absurd, since at least 5 generations would have to pass between them.
At any rate, we have Holmes back with his excited shrink ("Susan Silver", an actress who toiled in anonymity), reliving the too-close-to-Wadd’s-real-life for comfort of having humped his colleague, and thus afraid of incipient homosexuality. In Part I we really saw said actor (Peter Johns) taking it in the posterior but are spared such formalities in Scene II.
There’s plenty of recap and highlights footage re-shown from Part I, including a Holmes threesome with two handsome of his colleague, while the theme of the first video is jettisoned. I have to mention one greater amount I told you so, as shrink Susan Silver has a charming assistant Miss Cohen who has nothing to do but is played by the pleasant Kay Parker, legendary star who Kirdy Stevens made immortal in his taboo series, while Tobalina was wasting both her talents and directing earlier films this man botched absolutely. And the Oscar goes to…Kirdy, not Carlos.
Final reels of Part II contain absurd padding, almost any of it in Tobalina’s favored soap box vein. To recycle permanent cutting room floor and vault sex footage, of humping, big penes greater amount impressive than limp Wadd’s member, and non-stop money shots, guy has a TV panel of Bill Margold (reading dumb material), a future superstar chief – and actress from both soft & heavy X features – Ann Perry, plus cute but untalented Maria Pia, who I had just seen uncredited as this bug-eyed TV viewer at home .
The panel is broadcasting sex on the Tit Tube because, in a science fiction or at least speculative world of if mode, Tobalina has postulated this appetizing freedom (spurred by the dumb Casanova aphrodisiac cologne that is the spine of both of those films’ plots) has given rise to a utopia on Earth. Amusingly inane ending has a final image of a mushroom cloud, representing although ill-chosen by our not so brainy (and poor speller) auteur the abandonment of armies and war gadgets by both the Soviet Gathering and the YOU.S.A.
Morons supporting the current gonzo adult wave this has ruined Erotic entertainment in recent decades often audio the Fight Weep once voiced by top names like Jim Holliday and even Margold himself (self-appointed Porno industry historian and standard bearer this lad is ) this porn’s be-all and end-all is excited sex scenes, period.
Watching screw-loose fun even at a low level like Casanova II puts the lie to this attitude -the essays at telling a story, albeit one with a morbid emphasis on sex, sex and more sex, is at the heart of porno, period. Wall-to-wall sex reduces one’s product to a mere instantly generic commodity, as purveyors of that material are learning to their chagrin in that all-streaming anywhere all-the-time on-any-device world we live in.
Format: mp4
Duration: 1:31:20
Video: 1280×720, AVC (H.264), 4637kbps
Audio: 124kbps
File size: 3.1 GB
