My basic instinct is not to see this film

I know that Basic Instinct 2 was stuck in neutral in Hollywood for a long time before finally getting made, but has it really been around since the last time "Sharon Stone gets naked" was enough to sell a movie? In the 14 years since the first film was released, Stone has gone from "hottest woman in Hollywood" to "still pretty attractive" to "barely even shows up in anything these days" to "getting older and kind of crazy." Considering how little marketability she seems to have left, it's amazing how desperate the producers were to get her, but I guess you need something to sell the film if you're going to have no other connection to the original; look what severing 99.9% of all ties to the original film did for the sequel to The Blair Witch Project.

Perhaps more troubling is the fact that the plot of Basic Instinct 2 seems remarkably similar to the plot of the first Basic Instinct, except this time it's set in London, the male lead is played by a total nobody, he's a psychiatrist instead of a detective, and Stone is almost 50 years old and has to be shot through three filters and a layer of wax paper smeared with Vaseline. Also, the script is written not by trash-master Joe Eszterhas but rather, based on the trailer, by the James Bond franchise's old innuendo generator, which I think the Basic Instinct producers bought at a yard sale after the Broccolis retired it.

Basic Instinct 2 trailer (Yahoo! Movies)