An astronaut gets infected with alien DNA during the first mission on Mars and runs amok on earth. Preston and Laura team up with a peaceful, genetically re-engineered Sil to track the monst... Read allAn astronaut gets infected with alien DNA during the first mission on Mars and runs amok on earth. Preston and Laura team up with a peaceful, genetically re-engineered Sil to track the monster down.An astronaut gets infected with alien DNA during the first mission on Mars and runs amok on earth. Preston and Laura team up with a peaceful, genetically re-engineered Sil to track the monster down.
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This movie definitely wasn't as good as the first one.
I thought the original was actually quite entertaining and had quite a good story.
This didn't have an as good story and some parts seemed silly.
I didn't like the fact that it was the male astronaut doing all the killing instead of Sil.
And that is was in Washington D.C instead of L.A.
But the action scenes still entertained me and the monsters were pretty cool.
I don't know how they got Michael Madsen and the now famous Marg Helenberger to do this sequel ( and I don't know they got Madsen to do the first one either) but there acting was good.
Overall I think was a reasonably entertaining movie but don't out of your way to see it.
I thought the original was actually quite entertaining and had quite a good story.
This didn't have an as good story and some parts seemed silly.
I didn't like the fact that it was the male astronaut doing all the killing instead of Sil.
And that is was in Washington D.C instead of L.A.
But the action scenes still entertained me and the monsters were pretty cool.
I don't know how they got Michael Madsen and the now famous Marg Helenberger to do this sequel ( and I don't know they got Madsen to do the first one either) but there acting was good.
Overall I think was a reasonably entertaining movie but don't out of your way to see it.
A lot of people must have needed to make house payments, their names listed at the beginning of this film as a testament. Put another way, one could do a Jeff Foxworthyesque comedy bit called "Your career might be in trouble if..." and the answer is "You worked on Species II." I have never felt so embarrassed for a group of actors as I had watching these thespians run through painfully stupid dialogue. The script is so inept you have to wonder if it wasn't written by a committee - of middle schoolers. Except for the sex and violence. Or, more succinctly the sexual violence. The filmmakers have some definite problems with women. Unlike the first film, which this outing makes to look like "2001" by comparison, here we only see women being ripped bloodily apart, usually during sex. There are bad movies that are fun to watch and laugh at. This turd is not one of them.
If you liked the first species film you will like this, it's not as good but it's more or less the same just a bit cheaper. The sci-fi story is cool and I like the series and will watch the third one to see if it's any good.
This movie sucks! The original was much better and even it wasn't that good. The only thing this has going for it is the scenes with sex and nudity. Gore fans might like this movie but if your looking for an amazing science fiction/horror experience than watch the ALIEN films.
I can't believe this made the big screen. This movie should have gone straight to tape, it is simply atrocious. Everything about this movie is bad; the acting (what little there is), the story (what little there is) and the special effects. The only thing it accomplishes is being a total gross-out. If you like steamy sex scenes to then see the woman get mutilated during childbirth, this movie is for you! Even if you only watched this movie to see Natasha H. get naked, you'll probably even be disappointed there! And the end where the aliens have sex is simply the stupidist I've seen. The special effects look like a cheap rip-off from Aliens and the way the male Species suffocates Eve with what looks like a phallic tentacle is beyond dumb.
I cannot recommend this movie to anyone.
I cannot recommend this movie to anyone.
Did you know
- TriviaMichael Madsen and Natasha Henstridge have disowned the film, claiming to hate it. In regards to H.R. Giger, he actually requested to have a reduction of credit in his involvement, not having been impressed with the film either.
- Goofs(at around 2 mins) The crew holds real-time video and radio conversations with Earth while in orbit around Mars. This would be impossible without technological advances. Despite travelling at the speed of light, radio waves would need anywhere from several minutes to almost an hour depending on where they are in their orbits with respect to each other to travel from Mars to Earth and vice versa.
- Quotes
Dr. Laura Baker: The alien DNA infected us, it's about time we infected them.
- Alternate versionsDVD release includes some deleted scenes. Three of them are just longer, alternate takes of scenes in the film: Patrick's sex encounter with the debutante and her sister; a longer dance scene in the strip club; a longer version of Patrick's attempt to slid his 'tongue' into Dr. Laura Baker's mouth. The fourth scene shows Patrick going into the apartment of a girl he picked up at a club: when he discovers that the girl is actually a transsexual, he kills her.
- ConnectionsEdited into Species II: Additional Unseen Footage (1998)
- SoundtracksEasy Chase
Written by Waylon Jennings
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- Also known as
- Especies II
- Filming locations
- University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA(The lab scenes were filmed at the UMCP Chemical Engineering Bio-Process Facility)
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Box office
- Budget
- $25,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $19,221,939
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,274,008
- Apr 12, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $19,221,939
- Runtime
- 1h 33m(93 min)
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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