
It is Los Angeles, 1991. Jack Deth has become accustomed to life with his new wife, Lena, in the six years since they singed Whistler. Hap Ashby, a former pitcher for the California Angels, had gotten his life out of the gutter and made quite a fortune investing, which he uses to finance his collection of fire trucks, among other things. But life is about to become a little more difficult for Jack and the gang. Whistler's brother, E.D. Wardo, has gome back in time and has sta... (Full plot summary below)
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It is Los Angeles, 1991. Jack Deth has become accustomed to life with his new wife, Lena, in the six years since they singed Whistler. Hap Ashby, a former pitcher for the California Angels, had gotten his life out of the gutter and made quite a fortune investing, which he uses to finance his collection of fire trucks, among other things. But life is about to become a little more difficult for Jack and the gang. Whistler's brother, E.D. Wardo, has gome back in time and has started a trancer farm under the organization known as GreenWorld. GreenWorld strives to 'clean up the world', but in reality they are kidnapping homeless people and mental patients to become 'tranced'. And they're after Hap, the ancestor of a future Council Member. Jack's quite ready to singe a few trancers, but he isn't expecting his dead wife to show up. Through the power of technology, Alice has been saved from death and sent back to 1991 to help Jack and stop Wardo. The tension mounts as Lena becomes more distraught by the thought of Jack leaving her for another woman, Hap slips back into his alcoholic habits to deal with the stress, and Jack realizes that when Alice returns to the future, she'll die the next day. But somehow, Jack'll find a way to fix everything. He always does.
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| User ReviewWayne Fi enjoy these movies probably sounding like a geek but oh well there are worse movies |
| User ReviewJames CLife has been quiet for six years and then the Trancers return led by a new evil genius, hellbent on changing the future. And only one man can stop them - Jack Deth. Set (and made) six years after the events of the first 'Trancers' movie, this sequel is not as good, but still very entertaining. The storyline feels a lot slower, as it takes time re-introducing characters and setting up the plot. But when things get going, the movie returns to the low-budget vibe that made the original so much fun. Tim Thomerson steps back into the role of Jack Deth as if he has never been away, and it is nice to see so many returning cast members. Cult actors Jeffrey Combs and Richard Lynch are welcome additions and play their parts in their signature over the top manner. |
| User ReviewDylan CThis is probably the best series that Full Moon decided to do. Tim Thomerson is always good. Funny to see Helen Hunt started off her career doing this series. Megan Ward is awesome. |
| User ReviewDavid LIn my opinion, Trancers II is the best of all the Trancers sequels produced by Full Moon Entertainment. The original is a cult classic. Its sequels could be considered mini-classics, although they're nowhere as good. I like that with part 2, Full Moon decided to bring back most of the cast from the original, including Lena, Ashby, Old McNulty, McNulty, Commander Ruthie and even the main villain (Wardo) was assosiated with Whistler from Trancers I. The best thing about Trancers II is Jack's two hot wives. The chemistry between the characters is interesting, as the future cop is caught up in the chaos following his late wife's unexpected return. Quite campy dialogue and a wafer thin plot hamper it down quite a bit, but Full Moon have never been able to rebound any more with fine sequels or great movies in general. So yeah, enjoy Trancers II for what it is - an underrated sci-fi classic. |
| User ReviewAnthony VSolid, low-budget sequel is bound to please fans of the original film, clearly the makers care about the material, their ambitions are so high though that they can't quite pull this off, Megan Ward is a great addition to the cast. |
| User ReviewCorey BStranded in the 20th century, time-traveler Jack Deth (Thomerson) has made a new life for himself and married a lovely, strongwiled woman named Lena (Hunt)... which will some day make Jack his own great- great- great-grandfather. His new peaceful life is thrown into chaos when another time traveler returns to the past, hunting a villain from the future who is using an environmental action group as a front for creating deadly, zombie-like supersoldiers known as Trancers. This time traveler happens to be Jack's wife from the future (Ward), who had been dead for several years when he was sent into the past. The main thrust of "Trancers II" is a fairly run-of-the-mill low-budget action film with a few sci-fi trappings that sees Jack Deth fighting and ultimately defeating a hoard of zombie-fied bad guys led by Dr. Wardo, another time traveler from Jack's original time period. It's not a bad story, but it's a somewhat predictable retread of the story from the first movie. The film, however, is very interesting if you like time travel adventures, because of the tangled histories of two characters--they are present at the same point 300 years in their past, but one is seven years ahead of the other in their personal timelines and he knows the other characters future. He knows that she is actually already dead and that when she goes home, she will be murdered by trancer cultists. This wrinkle adds much to the film and makes the akward situation Jack is in of having to deal with two different wives--one of whom he can't tell that he remarried because he's actually a widower--a very interesting one. Jack's marital problems are played mostly for laughs in the film, but the details that brought it about are both fascinating and tragic. The film is further helped by decent acting all around,even if the dialogue they actors are delivering could have used some more work. Poor Megan Ward in particular delivers from pretty awful lines. The final battle also lacks a bit of punch, and Jack seems a little too eager to gun people down. If killing the wrong person changes the future, shouldn't he be more careful about who he kills? It's one thing for him to kill Trancers--they're already dead--but what about the security guards he shoots? Dr. Wardo's assistants? The body Dr. Wardo's spirit was inhabiting? He kills all these peoples, and, based on the rules of time travel the film set up, he probablyl did all sorts of damage to the time line. Despite some sloppy scripting, the film is still interesting and worthwhile. Its social satire has even held up well over time and perhaps even gained more of an edge. The main villain is very Al Gore lie, and his whole organization is very reminicent of the face the modern ecological movement presents to the world. (It may be a little cult-like. If you've ever been annoyed by the hyperbolic idiocy that issues forth from the mouth of "leading environmentalists" or hypocrites like Al Gore, then Green World and its agents should amuse you. Trancers II (aka "Future Cop II") Starring: Tim Thomerson, Megan Ward, Helen Hunt, Biff Manard, Sonny Carl Davis, Richard Lynch, Martine Beswick, and jeffrey Combs Director: Charles Band |
| User ReviewBryan GThere was a six year gap between the original Trancers and this sequel, The Return of Jack Deth, and you'd think that was more than enough time for Charles Band to work out the kinks from the first film. While a few of the problems I had with the first Trancers have been fixed in this sequel, a couple newer ones pop up that prevent this film from out-doing its predecessor. Still, the movie is just as entertaining and ends up being another decent science fiction film from Full Moon. The movie takes place in 1991, and Jack (Tim Thomerson) and Lena (Helen Hunt) are now Mr. and Mrs. Deth. The whole ordeal with Whistler and his murderous plans are a thing of the past, and the two have set out to live their lives. Unfortunately, Whistler has a brother who has tranced (time travel via sending your brain waves back in time to inhabit the body of an ancestor) himself into the head of a mental facility director and is creating a drug that he plans on using to create an army of trancers to try and finish Whistler's work. It was great to see the cast of the original film return for this follow up. Both Thomerson and Hunt deliver better performances in this film, and their characters are developed a little better. I liked the introduction of Alice (Megan Ward), Jack's first wife who died in the future, and the way that complicated Jack and Lena's relationship. It isn't much, but it at least allows for some character development this time around, unlike the original film. I enjoyed the performance by Alyson Croft, who plays an ancestor of McNulty (Art LaFleur), a top member of the police force of the future. When McNulty trances himself in the past, he has to inhabit the body of this 15 year old girl. And it was funny to see his mannerisms come out of this young woman, and I felt Croft was consistently hilarious with some of McNulty's quirks. The film also features cult horror icons Richard Lynch, as Whistler's brother Dr. E.D. Wardo, and Jeffrey Combs as his assistant Dr. Pyle. I like both of these actors, especially when they make appearances in Full Moon movies. While neither of their performances here are my favorites of their work with Full Moon, I still enjoyed their presence in the film. The action in Trancers 2: The Return of Jack Deth is still as anti-climatic as the original film was. However, this time around there is a little more violence in the film. Jack is more apt to using his gun this time around, and there are a lot of people getting shot to death in the film. And the film seems to have fun with all of the gun fighting, and it ends up being a rather squib-tastic experience. Although, I have to wonder why Jack has no regrets shooting these trancers, since technically they are innocent people unwillingly inhabited with the minds of violent decedents. Oh well, it's a stupid movie... why bring logic into it? Trancers 2: The Return of Jack Deth is another decent watch, and has given me hope that this Trancers box-set might very well end up being one that I like the majority of the films in it. Even if the other films can't expand on the concept, if they can maintain this level of enjoyable absurdity, hopefully the rest of the series should be the same level of fun to watch. |
| User ReviewJason DMore Trancers appear for Jack Deth to deal with six years after the original. Solid sequel. Similar story to the original but adds Jack Deth's future wife being sent to the past to complicate personal matters for him. |
| User ReviewMark NThe camp becomes self aware. Almost as good as Trolls 2 |
| User ReviewKevin DI liked this one almost as much as the first one. |