Amazon.com video review:
This sequel to 1984's rip-snorting romantic-adventure, Romancing the
Stone, is a moderately entertaining tale that pales by
comparison to its predecessor. Romance novelist Kathleen Turner and
retired soldier-of-fortune Michael Douglas return as a now-complacent
couple. Bored with life on a yacht, they find excitement thrust upon
them when she accepts a speaking engagement in the Middle East. Once
there, she is abducted and finds herself involved with the "jewel"
everyone is chasing. Douglas teams up once more with Danny DeVito to
rescue his love. Less charming and more predictable than the original,
this suffers for one simple reason: the characters have nowhere to
go. In the original story we watched Turner blossom from timid
storyteller to lusty adventuress. In this flick she is too much like
all the other action adventure babes we've seen before. --Rochelle
O'Gorman
