Part II of Antonio Adamo's "Roma" trilogy (Roman numerals definitely preferred here!) has a couple of new actresses added to the cast and upping the eroticism. Caesar dallies with Cleopatra (played by exotic Coreena aka Cory Baby, latter name sounding like some pleasantry bandied about back in the Polo Lounge) but heads back to Rome when his niece Atia (beautifully played by Lidia St. Martin -the show's best actress) warns him of plots against him and his regime.
For such a lavish undertaking, in which nary a hair is out of place or makeup not perfect for the large cast of costumed characters, I found it unforgivably sloppy to leave Coreena/Cory out of the credits completely. I searched in vain for "who played Cleopatra?", clearly a major role in any version of this legendary story.
The bald Italian character actor Cristian Devil (his career still going strong today in such films as "Donna Matilde"), is the prime mover in this part of the saga, causing an incredible amount of trouble (even stabbing a principal figure to death) when not humping such beauties as Angel Dark and Boroka Bolls. The double-dealing and treachery reaches its peak in a cliffhanger ending (to set up Part III).
I enjoyed the combination of old-fashioned pageantry and posing in costume with the necessary XXX content, made worthwhile by the casting of so many Euro lovelies. Some of the scenes are stiffly played, and a certain amount of repetition must be tolerated, especially Clarke Kent's walking around narrator repeating almost by rote in each of the three films the same spiel about the importance of the Brothel in Roman social life, as prelude to what plays like the same old orgy over and over. The main difference between Part II's orgies and what's gone before is the integration of interracial sex provided by stalwart Franco Roccaforte, also omitted from the credits.
