SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

mollidew This miniseries is an adaptation and although it doesn't follow the second book completely it is not a major motion picture so the writers have to go the direction that fits best with the first book in this form. Essentially the second segment is about finding out who Lili's (Elizabeth)father is and getting Judy back when she is kidnapped after she goes to see a rebel leader. I didn't get the feeling that no one cared about Judy at all. They didn't want to openly state she had been kidnapped for fear it would jeopardize her life and none of the women had enough money to pay the ransom.Lili, Pagan and Maxine go to each of the men they suspect to have raped Judy to extort money from them for the ransom. The rebel leader falls in love with Judy. Ultimately she gets released and after Lili reads all three versions of a chapter within a book Judy had written about Lucinda Lace, that was never published, it is revealed who the father actually is. In the end, Lili does not say who her real father is and says it is one of the men who had died. It would have been devastating for the actual father considering his position in life.I liked this adaptation of the second book as well as the adaptation of the first book. It fit well as far as continuity to the first miniseries. I preferred the new actress in the part of Judy as well. She seemed to fit the character much better. Too bad they didn't use her the first time. This was a very good miniseries and I recommend it to anyone who likes romance stories with twists.

tsarskoyeselo Well,i agree with everything above, and asgardsrei summed up quite perfectly my own opinion. HOWEVER, if King Abdulah is in fact Lili's father, well, didn't she committed INCEST when she had an affair with him in Lace I??? I just couldn't believe in Lace II that nobody cared-mentioned-paid attention to this very fact!(:-). Still, i give this a 5 just because i TOTALLY ADORE Lace I and just was so desperate to see this glamurous party -partially- reunited...And there are some scenes worth watching anyway, like the opening one, also when Maxim comes back home and find her husband with the secretary, pretty much in the line of Lace I...There's so much trash these days on DVD that one wonders WHY on earth this jewell is not!

jkt1219 The original Lace was silly and cheesy, which is what made it so fabulous. The sequel, Lace II, is just boring.As in Lace, where Lili finds out who her mother is, in Lace II, she finds out who her real father is. Judy is on assignment in Asia, there to interview the head of a revolutionary force. When she gets there she is told that she will be held for $1 million in ransom. Lili is unable to get the money together, even from Pagan and Maxine. Lili decides that the only other person that she can get the money from is her father (we learn in a flashback that her father could not have been Neil the banker from Lace I). She finds a three stories that were written by her mother. In all three, Judy is raped by a different man (two of the stories take place on the evening of the Valentine's dance from Lace I, and the other takes place during a school break). The people in the stories all have aliases, but Judy kept the same initials as the real person. Lili, along with Maxine and Pagan, each take one story and try to determine who her father is. Of course, as in the original, you don't really find out who it is until the very end.I liked the premise of Lace II, I just disliked the execution. Several actors from the original (including Bess Armstrong who played Judy), do not show up for the sequel. Phoebe Cates thankfully drops the atrocious accent from the first film, but the actress playing Pagan still stumbles her way through a bad English accent. Some other things that really bugged me: 1. Pagan and Maxine are very reluctant to help Lili at all, not just with the search for her real father, but with the entire situation all together. They act very unconcerned with they find out Judy has been kidnapped and only agree to help after Lili bitches them out. 2. In the original, Judy has a long time boyfriend. In the sequel he appears very briefly, and when he does, he acts as if he and Judy are just friends. 3. When Lili decides to get the ransom money from her father, how does she know he has money? And even if he did, this was the early 80's. How many people, even wealthy ones, can drum up $1 million in just a couple of days? All in all, I was disappointed. But if I were to watch it again, I would only watch the three flashbacks that play out Judy's three stories of how she was raped, and the ending that tells you which man is her father.

MrsScott We can FINALLY understand why Lily has such a dark complexion while her mother is so fair. This movie was, in many ways, better than Lace #I. One can understand why Lily turned out the way that she did. It was nice to see the girls all work together instead of against each other. The ending was very masterfully done. Bravo!