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The Fly II (1989)

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Country: US
Technical: col 105m
Director: Chris Walas
Cast: Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson

Synopsis:

Seth Brundle's offspring is a child with an accelerated growth syndrome who at 5 is intelligent enough to fall in love with a lab assistant. Unfortunately he also turns into a fly, and finds he has been carefully nurtured only so that the teleportation device can be turned to evil ends.

Review:

Following in its predecessor's footsteps in being slightly more 'serious' than most modern horrors, whereas Cronenberg used The Fly to provide a showcase for one of his objectivisations of human physiology (the deterioration a metaphor for AIDS), this sequel merely becomes a crude rehash both of the first film's special effects, and more interestingly Tod Browning's Freaks: the nasty doctor becomes the subject of one of his own experiments. Otherwise, in spite of the revolting and improbable coda, it is notable as actually having an upbeat ending.

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Country: US
Technical: col 105m
Director: Chris Walas
Cast: Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson

Synopsis:

Seth Brundle's offspring is a child with an accelerated growth syndrome who at 5 is intelligent enough to fall in love with a lab assistant. Unfortunately he also turns into a fly, and finds he has been carefully nurtured only so that the teleportation device can be turned to evil ends.

Review:

Following in its predecessor's footsteps in being slightly more 'serious' than most modern horrors, whereas Cronenberg used The Fly to provide a showcase for one of his objectivisations of human physiology (the deterioration a metaphor for AIDS), this sequel merely becomes a crude rehash both of the first film's special effects, and more interestingly Tod Browning's Freaks: the nasty doctor becomes the subject of one of his own experiments. Otherwise, in spite of the revolting and improbable coda, it is notable as actually having an upbeat ending.


Country: US
Technical: col 105m
Director: Chris Walas
Cast: Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson

Synopsis:

Seth Brundle's offspring is a child with an accelerated growth syndrome who at 5 is intelligent enough to fall in love with a lab assistant. Unfortunately he also turns into a fly, and finds he has been carefully nurtured only so that the teleportation device can be turned to evil ends.

Review:

Following in its predecessor's footsteps in being slightly more 'serious' than most modern horrors, whereas Cronenberg used The Fly to provide a showcase for one of his objectivisations of human physiology (the deterioration a metaphor for AIDS), this sequel merely becomes a crude rehash both of the first film's special effects, and more interestingly Tod Browning's Freaks: the nasty doctor becomes the subject of one of his own experiments. Otherwise, in spite of the revolting and improbable coda, it is notable as actually having an upbeat ending.

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