The Fly 2

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: No
Watched With: Jordan

Holy crap look at that writing team: Mick Garris, Ken and Jim Wheat and Frank Darabont! Great work guys. Great work.

Well it has a few nods to the first film, but the tone is entirely different. The first part of the film is the best, watching the spawn of Brundlefly grow up into a super intelligent Eric Stoltz. I don't know why he's super intelligent he just is. Then there's a bit of coming of age drama and first love but instead of human puberty we get some other fly-type stuff. And then the last half is just a B monster movie.

The film is like fly-lite. It's a much lighter tone, there are a few comedic moments shoe-horned in, unlike the first film where the comedy just came from the characters and, well, Jeff Goldblum. They also set up a happy ending. This isn't a tragic love story, it has a happy ending. all the bad guys get killed by the Eric Stoltz fly and then he swaps some human genes with the evil corporate scientist and turns him into a horrible mutant while he magically turns back into Eric Stoltz.

I guess it's a slightly above average monster movie. There's fun stuff in there too, but obviously no where near as great as the Cronenberg film.