Pretty Cool Too (2007)

Pretty Cool Too (2007)

Release Date: 2007 (USA)
Quality: DVDRip.XviD-UNiVERSAL
Language: English
Runtime: -
Director: Rolfe Kanefsky
Company: Hope Street Entertainment, Casual Productions
Movie Info: IMDb
Cast: Eric Fagundes, Brandi Williams, Valerie Carpenter, Matt Bobb, Melissa Messinger, Robert Donavan
Genre: Comedy | Romance
Watch: Trailer
Size: 699MB

Plot: Pretty Cool Too is not so much a sequel to writer-director Kanefsky's minor straight-to-video hit, Pretty Cool, so much as it is a regurgitation of the same ideas (though the heart necklace/headband combo makes a cameo appearance). Here we have yet another graduating high school senior, Walter Buckell (Fagundes), whose gift from his parents includes a newfangled cell phone that is revealed to have a Guidance Navigational Expert (GNE, or Genie), represented in its display in the form of an attractive woman in full-motion video (Brandi Williams, co-host of "The Ultimate Poker Challenge"). As he begins to use his device, he finds that it has the unique ability to emit a series of notes that induce hypnotic signals that can cause anyone who hears them to do exactly as he commands. He immediately sets to use these powers on his bullying brother (Ferris, Pirates of Treasure Island), his hot babe girlfriend, and the various scantily-clad women next door appearing on the sexy reality show, "The Playpen".

Whereas Pretty Cool seemed much more a throwback to the days of the teen sex comedies of the 1980s, Pretty Cool 2 is more of the modern, post-American Pie variety, involving raunchier sex gags, embarrassing situations, and higher levels of gross-out humor. If the first film resembled Zapped!, this one is a bit more on the Weird Science side, with its sexy Genie granting the wishes of her adolescent master, embodying everything he thinks he wants in a woman. The execution of the gags is also reminiscent of the adult video game series, "Leisure Suit Larry", with its protagonist always out to get laid from any of the assortment of hot women in his sights, looking like he's on the verge of finally getting some, then inevitably coming up short.

Although it delivers the goods for those looking for a no-frills flick with lots of hot women in various states of undress, cheesy laughs, and not a trace of seriousness around, Pretty Cool Too falls short of its predecessor in delivering the right mix of innocent fun and good-natured slapstick. It does confirm Kanefsky's talent for quality casting of comedic actors who also have the looks to be in a sex comedy, and in drawing out solid performances out of those who have little or no previous experience in films. Just as Amy Brassette proved to be the scene stealer in the first film, that award should rightfully go to Sierra Edwards, who plays Leslie, the stepmother of the "girl next door" best friend, Agatha (Lehman). Through an early demonstration, Leslie must do everything her stepdaughter says, whether directed to her or not, and watching her continuously perform completely random things that happen to be uttered, mostly unintentionally, by Agatha, is increasingly amusing.