O filho quase humano de Seth Brundle(A Mosca) procura uma cura para seus genes mutantes enquanto é monitorado por uma corporação nefasta que deseja continuar os experimentos de seu pai.O filho quase humano de Seth Brundle(A Mosca) procura uma cura para seus genes mutantes enquanto é monitorado por uma corporação nefasta que deseja continuar os experimentos de seu pai.O filho quase humano de Seth Brundle(A Mosca) procura uma cura para seus genes mutantes enquanto é monitorado por uma corporação nefasta que deseja continuar os experimentos de seu pai.
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- Prêmios
- 3 indicações no total
- Dr. Shepard
- (as Frank Turner)
- Scorby
- (as Gary Chalk)
- Dr. Trimble
- (as William Taylor)
Avaliações em destaque
But with Cronenberg, Davis and Goldblum all gone, that's to be expected, isn't it? And as far as cheap cash grabs go, The Fly II is watchable.
Strip away all the things I mentioned in the first paragraph and what are we left with? Well, the director of this film did the remarkable special effects on Cronenberg's film, and naturally those are in equally fine form here. And though the central love story here is wooden as hell, there's a subplot involving a mutant dog I thought was surprisingly touching.
I went into this simply hoping for a fun, sort of trashy 80's b-movie, and those were appropriate expectations to have. The acting is dumb and dialogue is obvious in a sort of charming way.
Unfortunately, what holds the movie back from excelling on it's own meager terms is that it repeats too many plot points from the first film, when it should be distancing itself from it a bit more.
If you are in the right mood for it, though, it's a perfectly acceptable, not-boring, joyfully disgusting way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Much of the visceral symbols and themes from David Cronenberg's film are lost at the expense of gore and special effects, but parts of this obviously inferior film are nonetheless engaging. The character's motivation is clear, the atmosphere is pretty defined, and the film's last act is pretty exciting. Featuring some good gore effects and a ruthless act of revenge against an evil character ultimately make this film more satisfying than its reputation would suggest. 5/10
Rated R for violence, gore/gruesome images, and a sex scene
Eric Stoltz is given the unenviable task of picking up where Jeff Goldblum left off, as the equally hapless son of the Seth Brundle character. Geena Davis wisely took a time-out, so a lookalike actress takes her place as Veronica "Ronnie" Quaife, who conveniently gets to die in the first few minutes, in a childbirth sequence that may make anything in the "Alien" series pale by comparison.
As ooky and icky as Cronenberg's bodily mutation-horror point of view was in the previous outing, Walas takes those cues to the 'nth' degree here, so those who are animal lovers or possessing delicate stomachs are hereby given fair warning: this is NOT a pretty picture.
Cinephiles who have wasted oceans of print criticizing THE FLY II should take note: the notices were equally severe all those years ago for RETURN OF THE FLY, when Fox tried to cash in then on the predecessor that had such a great pedigree. That cast included Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Medina and Al (David) Hedison.
With the new-fangled model starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, didn't anyone get even a hint of "deja vu all over again?" C'est la vie. The only person sticking around (pun intended) from the "new original" is John Getz as the unfortunate bastard Stathis Borans, and to his credit, he played it with deadpan perfection, not to mention that his character is given the sequel's best dialogue. In other words, it's pretty obvious from the way he played things that Getz "gets" it.
Even if Stoltz and the non-descript Daphne Zuniga had been up to the task of overcoming the FX bombast on display (which they obviously weren't), the producers, writers and director weren't out to surpass the last episode in quality, as much as in the queaze quotient. Only Lee Richardson as Anton Bartok, the wicked, narrow-minded industrialist bent on exploiting the late Dr. Brundle's experiments to the max, does his job admirably well. You love to hate him on first sight, and the fact that he delivers the goods makes the gruesome fate his character suffers that much more satisfying.
So, in closing, let's sum up the main points here: for classic terror and the not-so classic follow up, go back to the Fifties original and its progeny. For modern-day mayhem and mounds of moldering makeup effects, go to the creepy Cronenberg version, then do not pass go, skip lunch and try this ordeal of offal on for size. You will be grossed-out, guaranteed, and popcorn is definitely optional, skipping the extra butter, of course.
The movie does start really well and has an interesting plot, but the acting is not sufficient enough to capture the complexities of the character and sell them to the audience.
The horror is really just a gore-fest that fails to be scary despite the desperate efforts of the sound engineers and the music score.
It's not awful, but it is inferior to the original 5/10
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- CuriosidadesThe first videotape of Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) (where he theorizes that the teleporter improved him) is actually part of a deleted scene from A Mosca (1986). The scene was slightly edited for this film, and Veronica's (Geena Davis) voice was dubbed over by Saffron Henderson (who plays Veronica at the beginning of A Mosca 2 (1989)).
- Erros de gravaçãoMartin accidentally views a videotape of Seth Brundle, in which Seth explains his accidental fusion with the fly. However, although the footage comes from A Mosca (1986), that particular discussion between Seth and Veronica Quaife was never actually videotaped, unlike the interview with Seth that Martin watches earlier in the film.
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[meeting with Stathis Borans, now a bitter, crippled recluse]
Martin Brundle: I saw you on the videotape. You were...
Stathis Borans: Don't sit there!
Martin Brundle: You were there the night my father died; he was working on a cure.
Stathis Borans: That's why you dragged yourself all the way out here? To find out about a cure?
Martin Brundle: You're my only hope.
Stathis Borans: Ah. Oh, kid, the last thing *I* am, is *anybody's* hope. You really don't want to hear about this.
Martin Brundle: I *have* to know.
Stathis Borans: Brundle stole my girl, your mother. Got her pregnant. Caused her death. Dissolved my hand and my foot with fly vomit! I had no love for the man. He "bugged" me! As for the "cure" he was working on: he dragged your mother kicking and screaming into that telepod, that they might be fused together in one beautiful body. So your mother blew his brains out with a shotgun. *There's* your *cure*. Go *away*.
Beth Logan: You bastard! Where's your compassion?
Stathis Borans: [chuckles] I had to give it up; it cost me an arm and a leg!
Martin Brundle: It cost you more than that.
- Cenas durante ou pós-créditosThe sound of flies buzzing is heard in the 20th Century Fox intro at the very beginning of the film.
- Versões alternativasA scene of Martin being heckled by children and vomiting corrosive enzymes on the windshield their car in response (during a stop for fast food on the way to Stathis Borans' home). The kids are little league players. They're terrified as the vomit creates a huge hole in the car. The little league coach angrily throws the food for the kids down in anger. This scene was filmed but deleted.
- ConexõesFeatured in The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood's Scariest Insect (2000)
- Trilhas sonorasLock, Stock and Teardrops
Written by Roger Miller
Performed by k.d. lang (as k. d. lang)
Courtesy of SIRE RECORDS
By Arrangement with WARNER SPECIAL PRODUCTS
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- Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 20.021.322
- Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 6.751.371
- 12 de fev. de 1989
- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 38.903.179