Article: `Basic Instinct 2' is trashtastic fun.(Arts and Lifestyle)(Movie review)

Byline: JAMES VERNIERE

"BASIC INSTINCT 2"

Rated R. At AMC Boston Common, AMC Fenway and suburban theaters.

Grade: B-

Sharon Stone reprises the femme fatalerole in which she delivered the "flash seen around the world," and while "Basic Instinct 2" is not the new "Mommy Dearest" many of us had hoped for, it possesses several guilty-pleasure virtues.

Chief among these is a fearless, ferociously gonzo performance by 48-year-old Stone in a role, frankly, no one wanted to see her play again except her and the film's producers.

Nympho-novelist Catherine Tramell is up to her old tricks in Old Blighty, driving at 110 mph ...

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