This portmanteau Italian sex comedy, released under the English title "Sex with a Smile 2" may or may not have been intended as a sequel to the similar but more famous "Sex with Smile", but in any event it is certainly a worthy follow-up. It consists four genuinely funny stories. In the first an "upmost private dick" tries to convince a client that his seemingly loyal and religious wife is in fact cheating on him, but perhaps the detective should pay more attention himself to his own sexy, hot-to-trot missus (Maria Baxa). The second story involves a guy who dresses as a girl to play as a "ringer" for a girls' soccer team. It all goes horribly awry though, first, in the shower room, then during a penalty kick. The third story involves an inept gang of thieves trying to sneak into a villa by hiding in a big antique "trojan wardrobe". But their plans get entangled with the plans of the owner of the villa who is trying to escape his domineering wife(Barbara Bouchet)and rendezvous with his French mistress (Nadia Cassini). The last story has a married woman (Ursula Andress) trying to rendezvous with HER lover, but her plans get mixed up with a funeral wake that is going on on the floor below her apartment.
This movie like the original "Sex with a Smile" was directed by Sergio Martino, who along with Pasquale Campanile Festa, was undoubtedly the best at this type of Italian sex comedy (and he was successful in several other genres as well). The movie is missing the comedy chops and gorgeous oft-nude body of Martino's usual collaborator, Edwige Fenech. Ursula Andress (despite being about forty here) actually fills in pretty well as the gorgeous nude body, but she doesn't have Fenech's gift for comedy. The sexiest performances though are by Barbara Bouchet and Nadia Cassini appearing together as a wife and mistress. Although Bouchet has only brief (at least for her) nude scenes and Cassini only occasionally flashes her most famous ASSet, these two are still far sexier than all the anonymous full-frontal bimbos that decorate this movie put together. Special mention should also go, however, to the uncredited Maria Baxa who also played Lili Karati's stepmother in "Candido Erotica" and was equally sexy in the otherwise awful "Very Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind".
The male actors are pretty decent. They're all Italian this time, but many of them will probably look familiar to anyone who has seen a lot of these Italian sex comedies. There is no one on the level of Marty Feldman or any big non-comedy names like Tomas Milian (both of whom were in the first "Sex with a Smile"). Still, if you like these kind of films in general, you'll definitely want to see this.
