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Summary: One AWESOME sequel to an EXCELLENT movie!
Review: Species II is a very good movie. It does what the previous did not - it gets people into space! Yes, a trip to MARS is the opening sequence to the movie and it blew me away! Isn't the ultimate dream of all mankind to seek out the celestial worlds of our solar system?
On the trip back from Mars is where the SPECIES story takes up steam. I will not divulge the story or plot because YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THIS MOVIE!
Once again, excellent casting as in the first movie. Here we have both male and female SPECIES with Natasha Henstridge returning as a second (you could call it a) clone of the Alien DNA. The action and the effects are awesome and the suspense and gore truely cool.
If you like any of the Hellraiser movies,
If you like any of the Alien movies,
If you like the propogation of the SPECIES,
YOU MUST GET SPECIES II!My top ten list grows...
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Summary: This species is NOT the fittest!!
Review: In the first "Species", scientists create the perfect woman using alien DNA. Called Sil (Natasha Henstridge, who would be perfect if they ever decided to film a live action version of "Aeon Flux"), the woman's alien side showed itself in a series of gory mating sessions. In the sequel, Dr. Baker (Marg Helgenberger) tries again. Still played by Henstridge, but now called Eve, the alien is much better behaved (mostly because they keep her away from men), and even has a brighter shade of blond for hair, a touch that makes her seem more benign than the Sil of the first flick. Though still a risk to life on earth, Eve isn't the problem. Instead, trouble brews when alien DNA infects one of several astronauts sent to explore Mars. Kept dormant while embedded in Martian soil, the alien genes wake up when returned to the humans' ship and takes the form of green slime. Seemingly normal, astronaut Patrick Ross returns to Earth where (the alien DNA beginning to assert itself) he rapes scores of women, impregnating them. Ross's victims quickly, and fatally bear his alien offspring who soon grow into an army of fast-maturing aliens. The scientists, together with Marine Col. Burgess (George Dzunda) and action hero Press Lenox (Michael Madsen), use Eve to track the infected astronaut down, careful to keep Eve's own alien side dormant. Together with Ross's fellow astronaut, the team tries to track Ross down and eliminate him before his brood can mature into an army of hybrid aliens ready to destroy human life on Earth. "Species 2" is a horrible failure - not even good enough for the "so bad it's good" category. The science is pretty vague (why does the alien have to rape his victims to infect them? the slime was able to do the job just spreading around.), the underlying story generic (evil aliens against brawny or brainy types with guns and computers) and the acting is so-so despite some good talent. Though the characters are supposed to be fairly varied, there's no individuality to them at all. "Species 2" would work as a parody which it hints at being early on (the Mars mission seems cartoonishly short while the spaceship itself is covered eith more corporate logos than an entrant in NASCAR; the dialogue seems almost deliberately uninspired; when trying to dragoon Lenox into hunting the new alien menace, Dzunda's character baits him with, of all things, money - as if the prospect of an alien-infested world wasn't enough for Lenox to change his priorities; Richard Belzer plays the president of the United States), but the script makes clear that it takes itself seriously. Worse, most of the movie is simply crudely violent (Eve is tortured by Dr. Baker in hopes of learning weaknesses in Eve/Sil's alien physiology), not as much sexually charged as just brutal and not very funny. The direction and camera work don't work up much tension, and a film that freely riffs on Alien and Carpenter's "The Thing" is inferior by far to either of the two despite access to more sophisticated effects. While the premise has an original idea - Eve starts out as a wimpy shell of the original Sil, but by the end not only morphs into a worhy sucessor, but the heroine of the story - the film squanders every chance it gets to work out a scare or a laugh.
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Summary: A so-so movie
Review: As a horror movie I thought it was boring but as a sci-fi movie I thought it was really amazing. If you are looking at this as a horror film then it will be a waist of time and money but if you are looking at it as a sci-fi movie then you will like it a lot.
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Summary: I DON'T CARE
Review: I don't care how bad the script is or how many people say bad things about this film I love the first one and I love this one too,sure its not as great as the first one,but hey usually sequals aren't very good,and sure the visuals aren't as good too,but its still a good film I don't care what bad things the other people say about it,but if you want to I don't care just take a look at it if you haven't,but be carefull you might actually like it.
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Summary: Proof Positive That Most Sequels are LOUSY!
Review: Although the original will not go down as one of the classics of the sci-fi genre, this sequel makes the first seem like "Citizen Kane." Cheaply made with horrible special effects, the film reads like a primer for bad film making. The incredibly awful acting from the accomplished cast makes the viewer cringe. This is one movie to avoid like the plague. Hopefully, the series will end with this one...or will it?
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Summary: Ignore the previous naysayers
Review: I don't know what people expected from "Species II". They complain it was just a ... Sci-fi throwaway and that it was unwatchable. Ignore them! The primary purpose of movies is to entertain which this movie does. It also fulfills its role as a sequel by continuing the story, in a rather, I believe, imaginative way. The visual effects were very good and the dialogue intelligent(most of the time). Michael Madsen played his character with coolness and style and Natasha Henstridge had me drooling even with her clothes on(now THAT's sexiness...) Go rent it and have fun.
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Summary: Hunt them even harder because they multiply!
Review: The sequel has little to do with the first one, except the presence of Giger as the creator of the aliens and we have a quite better view of those in this film. The scientists, with the army behind (to find a good procedure to destroy them, to face an eventual attack from them) have cloned the dead alien woman from the first film and use her, with her consent (but what does such a consent mean ?), for tests. The second twist comes from a mission on Mars and some of this alien DNA is recuperated in one of the soil samples and brought back to the shuttle. This DNA gets out and invades the members of the crew. So they have a seven minutes blank spot in their memories. One of them, the son of the President of the US, is actually impregnated by the DNA that gets into his own DNA instantly. He becomes an alien in human form. Back on earth he starts a long spree to procreate more and more kids who grow fast and then get into cocoons to transform into real aliens. Of course every single mating woman is killed in the experience. But these aliens have Extra Sensorial communication skills and the clone in the lab will escape to mate with the new male. The scene of the mating of the two aliens is eerie and strange but beautiful due to the creative skills of Giger. They all, cocoons and parents, get destroyed and the dead clone is taken back to the lab. But her impregnation is not dead and is coming out in the ambulance where one of the kid is also kept prisoner and a cat comes up into the picture. Don't wonder why a cat gets into this running ambulance. Miracles are always possible. And the clone is giving birth to ... Black out. The same ideology is there : mad science, crazy military experiments, ambitious politicians, and above all the fear of what is different, what is alien and the necessity to destroy any alien element. Aliens necessarily are predators. This vision prevents these fillms, poor remakes of the Alien series, to have any great depth. It is only the story of a hunt of evercopulating animals that have to be destroyed before they invade the world with their progeniture. Simplistic, but good enough for a kinky thrill at midnight in a theater or at night on cable TV or your VCR. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.
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Summary: Gore and sex in the wrong quantities
Review: I've never seen an alien as beautifull as Natasha Henstringe.It is really great seeing her doing anything at all. Running , cooking , having sex , killing people ... anything will do for me . But even she can't save a movie like Species II . On this sequel , three people go to mars for NASA investigations and get infected by a weird virus .The effects of that virus are different on males and females . After making love , females die as they give birth to new alien people while males ( who are the lucky ones of this mess ) live happily ever after .It's their bed-partner who apparently doesn't . The movie lacks an adult script and plot , the supporting roles ( cops , doctors ) are simply awfull and the end screams "species III" . Only that will never happen considering the number of people who went and saw this one , right?
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Summary: Maximum Perversion: Typical T&A Movie
Review: Don't waste your time on this one. I saw this one before I saw the original Species. I don't know how that would affect me, but I do know this. I forced myself all the way through it. This is nothing but a ... T&A Sci Fi movie. Really isn't worth your time if you have any class whatsoever. Please forget this one.
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Summary: GODAWFUL= WATCH IT ONCE
Review: The number one sign your watching a bad sequel = when the heroes go and get ready to fight a humongous alien who has caused them nothing but trouble, they go to a room FULL of the biggest weapons in the world and they pick out a pistol and a hatchet. it does benefit from nudity and one of the greatest lines in cinema history.(see above)
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