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"The Fly II", although an OK film, does not at all live up to it's predicessor. It has a plotline that barely passes. This is an unnessicary sequel if I have ever seen one. Most of the beginning is dull, although it does have it's moments. Few. As it winds down to the end, it becomes very, very gory. The first Fly remake was gross when Stathis' hand melted off, but this is disgusting. Mostly whan the guy's head blows apart, and whan the guy's head is spat on, resulting in one of the most gory sequences ever shot. Beware. It becomes dependent on the gore. The first film maintained suspense. Even with the gore, "The Fly II" is an OK film in my opinion. Although it lookes like director Chris Walas did all he could with it, I give it 2 stars.

The combination of both films is genus, since I usually go out and buy a film and end up wanting to buy the sequel. I like to complete my colection of a series. The DVD is superior to the VHS in picture as well as sound. Buy it today. This combination on DVD gives a new meaning to the phrase "Be afraid. Be very afraid."

The Fly (1986) and The Fly II (1989) on one DVD disc.
This DVD is a double feature. The Fly (1986) is on one side of the disc and its sequel The Fly II (1989) is on the other side. Both films are in Widescreen. The Fly (1986) is a remake of the classic The Fly (1958), which two sequels were made, RETURN OF THE FLY (1959) and CURSE OF THE FLY (1965). Twenty-eight years later after the classic THE FLY (1958), this 1986 version stars Jeff Goldblum and his lady interest, Geena Davis. These two in real-life were a couple at the time. They have since been long divorced. This version is very different from the classic, more gore, heavy on the special effects. The teleporting is still there with just two machines with lots of smoke. It's a cool movie. Teenagers will like this, but I still think the 1958 classic is the best. The Fly II (1989) is a sequel, but is more like the son of The Fly. The son is played by Eric Stoltz (Mask [1985], Naked In New York [1994]). The movie begins with the baby being born. (Geena Davis is not in this one) Her worst nightmare, a mutant thing is delivered, however inside this mutant coccoon is a live baby. Stathis (played by John Getz as in the first film continues his role) watches on. They raise the boy in a clinical lab who by the way is a genius. Normal in every way, except he has a disease. The same one his father had. He ages more rapidly than the norm. He will be a teenager soon. As a boy, he sneaks in to Zone 4. He sees the lab people are continuing the same teleporting exercises his father did (as he will understand later). Now he is five years old, but his body and mind are of the age of eighteen. After viewing videos of his father (Jeff Goldblum returns in cameo appearances) he decides to continue his father's legacy and performs his own teleportation experiments. Beth, played by Daphne Zuniga (Stone Pillow [1985 TVM]), is his new friend. K.D. Lang tune, "Lock, Stock and Teardrops" can be heard here. This double feature DVD does not contain any special features.

Well worth buying just for the first one...
Cronenberg's masterful remake of "The Fly" is, simply put, one of the very best sci-fi movies in recent memory. Much like his "The Dead Zone," it mixes a character's terrifying journey with a powerful love story, and manages to do so successfully. Poor Seth Brundle's transformation is disturbing, suspenseful, and gory indeed, but Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis bring such conviction and sadness to their roles, your heart is pulled along for the ride. The metaphor of watching someone you love succumb to a disease which changes them utterly, is just as shocking as the mutations Brundle's body undergoes. Enough said. This is a great and powerful, albeit sad, movie experience.
"The Fly 2" is far less successful. It's always good to see Eric Stoltz, who is a strong actor with lots of appeal, and although his career has proven that he's not exactly leading man material, he comes close to pulling it off here. But the movie takes the formula from the first movie and screws it up: the gore is heaped on while the love story takes a back seat to it. Daphne Zuniga and Stoltz just don't generate the kind of chemistry and compassion that Goldblum and Davis did. Instead, the movie is basically an F/X vehicle. Once the two pretty young people hit the sack, it's pretty much downhill into head-smashing, face-peeling splatter movie territory. Too bad.
But Cronenberg's movie will live on forever; this two-movie disc is well worth the price for anyone interested in a frightening, suspense-filled human drama which doubles as a pretty darn cool horror show, even if its sequel is vastly inferior.