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Saturday 8 October 2011

The Fly II (1989)


Here’s a movie that actually seems to have grown on me through subsequent viewings. However, I still view it as a completely unnecessary sequel to an otherwise perfect film. Here we find that Brundlefly’s offspring (Eric Stoltz) has survived and suffers from an accelerated rate of growth. The first hour or so is interesting, but then gets kind of ridiculous in the last 30 minutes as the movie starts resembling Alien. Overall, I feel it undercuts the emotional resonance of the original and just seems more cruel than humane this time around.

2.5 mutated gene splices out of 5

1 comment:

Lyedecker said...

i always felt really bad for the mutant golden retriever in this film, so it's great the same fate befalls the villain.

face melting and head crush scenes were pretty cool.

kinda unnecessary sequel though...