Wild Things: Foursome (2010)

The first thing you might be wandering may sure be “Wait, have you really seen Wild Thing 4some?”. Yes, I have really seen “Wild Things Foursome”. And then you might wonder “But have you seen the previous 3 films of the franchise?”. Again I say yes, I have. And you might continue to ask “And weren’t you tired of seeing the same film four times over?”. Well, yes… but the girls are different in every film, and therein lies the rub! Well, actually the first “Wild Things” (1998) was a very good movie. Ok, it is now only remembered by the threesome scene between Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell and Denise Richards, but really it was a very cool and sexy thriller, with great twists and turns. Very hot and very entertaining. Hell, it even had Bill Murray, and it’s not any film which has Bill Murray! But the problem is that “Wild Things 2” (2004) and “Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough” (2005) were exactly the same movie. The plot was exactly the same, the difference was that the girls were different, the light sex (kissing and nudism) was more, the lesbian action was increased, and the twist and turns took even more twists and turns. But if you have seen the first, then there is really no surprise. Ok, you don’t know which one will get all the money in the end… but there is no thrill. Admit it, you just see it for the sex and the girls. “Wild Things: Foursome”, using a not so clever pun, takes the action a little further, and actually achieves in being the second best film of the franchise (miles away from the first even so). Ok, so we get the same old, same old rich spoiled kids in Blue Bay who don’t get along with the ones from the other side of the tracks, a rich father, an inheritance (this storyline taken from 2 and 3). But as the plot thickens (or at least it gets a little bit beyond thin, as the actors are bad, and the screenplay sucks, written by 40 year olds who dream they are young and hot and have all the girls and suppose everyone in that condition talks in a certain way), the storyline appears to be (at last) somewhat original. But then, out of the blue, the rape charge again comes, completely out of context, just to maintain the tradition of the previous 3. Horrible! Tired of it to the bone! The trio this time is composed by Ashley Parker Angel (doesn’t know how to handle a line), whose girlfriend is Marnette Patterson (bad acting!), and who is accused of raping Jillian Murray (hot!). There is not one single person who sees this and does not know that it is a hoax, and sure enough, quickly after we have a settlement, a lot of money, and the classic victory lap, in this case the threesome scene, between the people involved, to show us that they were all in it together. Wait… threesome? No, foursome, because a girl who is only remotely connected to the story and never appears again (or does she), decides to join the party and so, for the delight of the viewers, one guy and 3 girls make out in the shower for 3 or 4 minutes. What everybody had been waiting for! I can only regret, for the sake of the movie, (off course!), that it was so little. Well, of with the rest of the movie, which is basically the same as before. The young plotters plot against each other in a web of lie, sex and deceit, trying to kill each other to get the money, as a police inspector unravels the past. This unraveling, although more interesting than parts 2 and 3, is off course, poorly developed, and very predictable. Yet actor John Schneider as the detective is the only one who knows how to act and gives the investigation a cool look and an interesting facade. Facts keep coming out of the blue, once again. Confusing? Yes. More interesting to the movie? No. So this goes on until the end. In 1, the “bad girl” Neve Campbell made it to the end with all the money. In the second was the good girl. In the third once again the bad girl. Who will get the money this time? Well, one thing is for sure, not the guy! This is a movie for guys to see girls in bikinis, so the girls always win. But which one of the three? Is there another twist? Are other characters in on it? As the 3 previous movies, all is revealed at the end credits, and this time, at least, the solution is interesting. I was pleased! Ok, this is a bad movie, with bad acting and a bad screenplay. Not that bad really, if Wild Things 1, 2 and 3 didn’t exist, but no-one likes remakes disguised as sequels. This movie only exists to give us, guys, an opportunity to see beautiful girls naked, or wet in bikinis, kissing each other, while deceit and seduction flow from scene to scene with little depth. A guys movie, to see at night when you’ve got nothing else to do. If this interests you see the first one with close attention. The other 3 movies… hell, just look at the girls. And that is not a bad perspective either! Jillian Murray is pretty hot! The best of the franchise! But please, if you want to continue to make Wild Things movies… give them the hot girls, the threesomes, the twists and turns of the plot, that’s ok… just don’t use the rape thing anymore. In the first movie it worked so well, but now it is completely worn out! Oh… just one more thing… the soundtrack of this movie was pretty good! Credit to the composer.