Black Scorpion II: Aftershock (1997)

All the sequel had to do was recreate the same sense of fun that was the foundation of the first film and I’d have handed it another half-decent score, but someone turned it into a crap comedy instead of a camp costume caper. There are actual clown noises like Boing and Twang to accompany the villainous Gangster Prankster, who's a very obvious merger of Two-Face and Joker. The other villain, because the law of sequels states there must be two, is a leather-clad female professor named Ursula Undershaft, and that's as good as it gets.

0½ a tremor out of 5