A worthwhile sequel, it's a shame they couldn't have got Geena Davis to return but they missed the obvious, having her character live happy ever after offscreen whilst having the random skank Seth picked up in a barroom in the first movie bear his monstrous child. This could have been great but it tried too hard on the gore angle rather than the heart, the real core of the first movie was actually the love triangle between the lead characters. But the real heart -tugger is the subplot with the Golden Retriever, if you're not reduced to tears the you have no soul. To the degree that when the villain is reduced to their horrible fate at the end you actually feel sorry for them and wish they someone would just put a round in them to end their suffering. So it's not a bad film per se and a great deal many compared to many sequels (Alien 3, I'm talking to you) but it could have been better, so many unexplored opportunities that were so frankly unbelievably obvious. I will never stop loving the concept that the oh-so-obvious-villain of part one actually turns out to be the hero. Definitely stop here.
Review of The Fly II
