The Weird and Wonderful 'Showgirls' Sequel You Didn't Know Existed

You know… *sigh* maybe we were a little hard on Paul Verhoeven. Sure, his script was atrocious, his actors hammier than a deli, but he knows how to make a movie… in the most basic sense. He assembles talented people who can light a shot, pick up functioning audio, and dress a set to look real and enticing. He knows how to mount a camera on a tripod and focus it, how to dampen background noise, how to exact continuity, and basic logic. It’s not much, but he knows how to do it.

Showgirls, of course, is an unshakeable legend of bad movies. There had been much anticipation for this big, glitzy, high-budget movie that was apparently so sexy that it got landed with the dreaded NC-17 rating, which was tantamount to guaranteed box office doom. And in classic Streisand effect fashion, the extra layer of restriction attached to the movie garnered a lot of attention.

Honestly, it’s fanfic in cinematic form, it’s just that the fan was actually in the source material. And because of this, you can’t help but love it. The movie plays like a joke shared among friends, in a way that manages to avoid coming off as obnoxious or nostalgia-baiting. It’s as if a cast reunion at a fan convention produced a number of improvised skits for a live audience.

Riffel clearly takes a lot of inspiration from Elizabeth Berkley’s performance in Showgirls to the point that Penny is basically Nomi 2.0. She sports the same abrasive attitude, over the top physicality and quotes Nomi quite regularly. It turns out Berkley wasn’t such a bad actor after all. At least Nomi felt like a person spontaneously responding to situations, whereas Riffel has that stiltedness of an amateur actor obviously reciting lines.

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