īecause of the demands for a sequel, Thornton’s safecracker Willie reluctantly teams up with his back-stabbing ex-partner (Cox) and his own estranged, misanthropic mother (Bates) to rip off a Chicago charity during the holiday season. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Christina Hendricks, Jenny Zigrino, Ryan Hansen, Jeff Skowron. Barely released theatrically for good reason.ĭirected by Mark Waters. The gator action is so cheap and feeble, the human drama ends up being more interesting! (By “more interesting”, I mean, “still not interesting at all”.) Even Railsback’s hammy-but-underwritten villainy fails to breathe any life into this dreary, lumbering bore. Better than Piranha II: The Spawning, to be sure, but still just a bargain-basement knock-off without a fraction of the clever humor or cheap-thrill fun of the first. Īnother alligator on the loose, another hunt to stop the thing from chewing up half the South Side of Chicago…or wherever the action’s supposed to be taking place since the movie is intentionally vague. Starring Joseph Bologna, Dee Wallace, Holly Gagnier, Woody Brown, Richard Lynch, Brock Peters, Steve Railsback, Bill Daily, Trevor Eyster. Also known as The New Adventures of Hercules, Hercules II, or The Adventures of Hercules II.ĭirected by Jon Hess. A substantial portion of the film is either repurposed/deleted footage from the original or material initially shot for an unrelated gladiator movie. It’s cheap, it’s silly, it rarely makes any sense in short, it’s exactly what you’d expect from a Golan-Globus production shot in Rome by the 70s/80s Italian “schlockbuster” crews ( Clash of the Titans being the source of the rip-off). In this foreseeably shoddy sequel, Ferrigno once again dons the skimpy codpiece skirt as Hercules-or should it be Perseus since he battles Medusa, or maybe Flash Gordon since he does battle in space, or perhaps Marco the Animorph since he turns into a giant gorilla at one point? With the sorta-assistance of a couple of stilted sisters (Viviani, Carlucci), Herc is tasked with seeking out the seven Thunderbolts of Zeus (mostly by defeating random monsters) and overcoming his resurrected enemy (Berger) from the previous adventure. Starring Lou Ferrigno, Sonia Viviani, Milly Carlucci, Carla Ferrigno, William Berger, Claudio Cassinelli, Maria Rosario Omaggio, Margie Newton, Ferdinando Poggi, Eva Robins, Venantino Venantini. Seek them out in the Reviews section if you’d like.ĭirected by Luigi Cozzi. Note: all the originals have already been reviewed on Cinecaps Digest. Scroll down for the painful memories to come rolling back in like a fog of methane and b.o. Some of the originals were good and these sequels stained their reputations some of them followed original movies that were already number two’s, if you get what I mean, and just carried on the trend.Īnyway, four of these stinkers still smell today (they came out within the last couple years), others have hopefully decomposed from our memories. If you’re unfamiliar, the “rancid second helpings” batch theme explains itself: these are all crummy part two’s without a (to date) third chapter. A sorry sequel to a sorry sequel of a batch of sorry sequels.
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