Basically, it's a flop as US critics maul Stone sequel

The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 3, 2006 | Catherine Elsworth

[martin_fierro]

lol

[martin_fierro]

*spew*

[Denver Ditdat]

They should have recast it with a younger woman. Nobody wants to look at old tang.

I dunno - they could have just called it "Basic Instinct - the MILF Cut" and streamed it to the web.

[Emmet Fitzhume]

Well said!

Rock on!

:-)

[dfwgator]

So what happened to the Michael Douglas character from the first one?

[GSWarrior]

The guy who wrote the script (Joe Esterhauz or something) received what was at the time the largest paycheck in cinema history for his work.

What offended me about the flashing scene was the way it reduced the police interrogators into drooling juveniles.

The movie was vastly overrated, IMO.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

LOL.

I believe that the correct answer to your last question is "both."

[wolfcreek]

Ice Age II did 120 million this weekend and I suspect it's politically motivated. (the warming)

[Frank_2001]

Hollywood is truly delusional..they keep believing that luminaries such as Sharon Stone (and Uma Thurman, Cameron Diaz, J.Lo, etc), can actually ACT. Who wants to pay money to watch that washed-up old slut anyway?

[stylecouncilor]

About the only body part that Sharon Stone hasn't already shown onscreen is her spleen.
I might actually watch that!

[Tijeras_Slim]

So what happened to the Michael Douglas character from the first one?

If you were sthupping Catherine Zeta Jones, you'd stay away from Sharon Stone too.

[NZerFromHK]

British entertainment goes on two extremes. You can have some very wholesome shows and films such as The Last of the Summer Wine or Brassed Off, shows that most Americans immediate recognize when they think of British TV. Even the Bridget Jone's Diary seem rather implicit in sexual descriptions.

Last of the Summer Wine's site:

http://www.summer-wine.com

But on the other hand, the sky is the only limit when you come to shows like The Footballers' Wives, Cold Feet, or Sirens. They are so explicit that they will literally make members of Parents TV Council or Focus on the Family's Plugged In reviews suffer heart attacks. There is nothing like that from American's free-to-air TV networks.

The Footballers' Wives's official site:

http://www.footballerswives.tv/

[Slings and Arrows]

I think I've missed the extremes. When I think of British TV I think of Dr. Who, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, etc.

[NZerFromHK]

You are lucky, New Zealand has pervasive British influence and we do watch as many British shows as American ones on local TV. So we do get to know the both extremes of British TV and movie s.