Tremors 2
A few years after the horror at Perfection, and our hero Earl (Ward) is pondering days past. The graboids are old news and the media has found other stories. When a Mexican Oil executive turns up offering cash to rid their oil field of the nasty subterranean killers, Earl accepts the offer, and along with new partner Grady (Gartin) and gun fanatic Burt (Gross), head to...
A few years after the horror at Perfection, and our hero Earl (Ward) is pondering days past. The graboids are old news and the media has found other stories. When a Mexican Oil executive turns up offering cash to rid their oil field of the nasty subterranean killers, Earl accepts the offer, and along with new partner Grady (Gartin) and gun fanatic Burt (Gross), head to Mexico for some worm busting. Things go swimmingly, using their experience of their first encounter, until the worms turn...
The first film is one of my favourite movies. The cast put in great performances, and the partnership of Fred Ward and Kevin Bacon, along with some great special effects, a script that avoids the formulaic and some cracking dialogue, make Tremors a classic. So I was interested to see how the sequel would survive without Bacon. I was surprised that it fairs well, newcomer Gartin works well with Ward and they make a good partnership, but Burt Gummer steals the show as the gun nutter. The film is generally entertaining, with some laugh out loud moments, but it suffers from having two very different halves. Part 1 sees the team wiping out the worms at an alarming rate, with a few entertaining sub-plots and comedy moments. Part 2 sees the worms evolve in to new beasts, throwing them back in to chaos. The trouble is, the new worms just aren't scary. The makers have tried to give them that velociraptor feel, small but deadly, but they look like eggs on legs and are about as scary, and the cgi monsters look artificial. So the second half is about running and screaming, and the good guys finding a way to wipe them out. Although I enjoyed the film, the second half was too formulaic and lacked the sparkle of the original.
The DVD picture is clear throughout, and the prologic soundtrack is adequate, though lacking the range of a 5.1 score. Trailers for the first 2 movies provide the extras. Overall an entertaining movie, but nothing we haven't seen before. 3 out of 5.
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