Femalien 2: The Search for Kara (2000) Full Moon Video | Buy at Amazon | Review by Sinferno
Another Surrender Cinema feature about aliens that love humankind, and I mean that in the basest yet beautiful sense. For those of you just tuning in, FEMALIEN was the story of Kara, hottie alien babe from worlds afar who came down to earth to study our breeding patterns and then to personally participate in them. Well apparently, Kara hasn't checked in with the home-world in quite some time so they have sent two fellow space travelers Xeda and Trion to track her down and bring her back home by any means necessary. And I know what you are probably thinking by now, and it probably involves the two women on the cover of this thing brandishing cattle prods, paralysis nets and all sorts of badass Boba Fett brand of bounty hunting to bring this Kara to justice, let me stop you here. The woman on the left IS Kara and the woman on the right doesn't even appear in this film except for a brief flashback in the credit sequence from Femalien (so don't go counting your sex kittens before they are snatched). In reality the characters of Xeda and Trion are actually a couple; a man and a woman who look like a couple blonde models from California who speak with the same level of insight about the nuances of our modern world as a couple of babes in the lost woods who are also a long way from home. But there are other players in the game of this tale of interstellar intrigue. No sooner did the older, hotter versions of the kids from Disney's WITCH MOUNTAIN touch down than a lone UFO enthusiast Lester and his reluctant girlfriend Terry start to seek the travelers as well, after some preliminary sex which always seems like the ultimate star-map of the surreal spacey plot-line of Femalien 2. In addition, there is a creepy governmental Man-In-Black figure who wants a piece of the alien action himself, even though it appears he is the whole puzzle, (if not the most coveted piece indeed).
It is sad, humiliating and patronizing to talk about the plot of this film. Character development; dialogue has been replaced by disrobing, and all associations end in sex scenes that obscure the underlying plot of alien intrigue as much as they expose the succulent perfect flesh of naked bodies in all stages of unrated action. Is this bad? Not if this is what you want. Oddly enough, it still has a slightly better plot than the original Femalien, but the sex scenes are not quite as hot (Duh, say movie fans everywhere about any two possible films ever compared to one another). Eventually, Xeda and Trion learn to love one another as only a man and a women can do, the two UFO nuts reconcile as well and even the FBI guy stops by to help complete the quest for Kara in perhaps the only way that he ever could. For consenting adults who would like to see a bloodless, budget-less version of Species, this film will seem out of this world. For all other you Extraterrestrial buffs who insist that their on-screen aliens exhibit some form of superior intellect and some sort of creature prosthesis effect other than severe breast augmentation this might not be the one that makes you believe in intelligent life from space. However, it has been my personal experience that most women love Surrender Cinema and if the special lady in your life likes soft-core, Femalien 2 might just give you a "Close Encounter" that even Spielberg couldn't muster.
Sinferno Says...
Yucko/Neato Factor: This is a typical Surrender Cinema production. Bizarre, hyper-sexual and plot/clothing optional.
Production Values: The visual effects were the wrong kind of special as in "short bus". Kara herself is only seen through the credit sequence, several flashbacks of femalien and a brief appearance at the end where she bids everyone good work on the completion of their quest like some sort of estrogen infused Mr Rourke from Fantasy Island. To put the perfect looking character of Kara (Venesa Talor) of Femalien in Femalien 2 and not "utilize" her properly in a single new scene of her own is a sin against the universe.
Realism: While not as scientifically correct as the new "V" TV show, it does expose similar, more fleshy examples of human looking alien visitors with ulterior motives. But the V's of which drive this film, aren't "visitors," they aren't even characters! Yet they are the true stars of Femalien 2, if not the subject of every fleeting close up.
Value for Price: For $10.00 it wouldn't exactly give me cause to curse the heavens.
Plot: As any black hole it was empty but not without its attraction.
Another Surrender Cinema feature about aliens that love humankind, and I mean that in the basest yet beautiful sense. For those of you just tuning in, FEMALIEN was the story of Kara, hottie alien babe from worlds afar who came down to earth to study our breeding patterns and then to personally participate in them. Well apparently, Kara hasn't checked in with the home-world in quite some time so they have sent two fellow space travelers Xeda and Trion to track her down and bring her back home by any means necessary. And I know what you are probably thinking by now, and it probably involves the two women on the cover of this thing brandishing cattle prods, paralysis nets and all sorts of badass Boba Fett brand of bounty hunting to bring this Kara to justice, let me stop you here. The woman on the left IS Kara and the woman on the right doesn't even appear in this film except for a brief flashback in the credit sequence from Femalien (so don't go counting your sex kittens before they are snatched). In reality the characters of Xeda and Trion are actually a couple; a man and a woman who look like a couple blonde models from California who speak with the same level of insight about the nuances of our modern world as a couple of babes in the lost woods who are also a long way from home. But there are other players in the game of this tale of interstellar intrigue. No sooner did the older, hotter versions of the kids from Disney's WITCH MOUNTAIN touch down than a lone UFO enthusiast Lester and his reluctant girlfriend Terry start to seek the travelers as well, after some preliminary sex which always seems like the ultimate star-map of the surreal spacey plot-line of Femalien 2. In addition, there is a creepy governmental Man-In-Black figure who wants a piece of the alien action himself, even though it appears he is the whole puzzle, (if not the most coveted piece indeed).
