Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson

After Seth Brundle was "debugged", his son, Martin Brundle, born of the human fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosom...( read more  read more... )es to come out of their dormant state.

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R, 105 min.

Directed by: Chris Walas

Release Date: February 10, 1989

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DVD Release Date: October 4, 2005

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  • September 28, 2009
    Not as good as the first but it?s a decent story and it almost matches the first films sweeter moments as well as having a good dose of gore. As sequels go, this is pretty good!
  • July 18, 2009
    Not as good as the excellent first but still fun and gorey. Stolz is good as the eerie and odd son of Brundle and the action n gore is topps. The story is silly and its alittle the same really but its just 80's fun and much better than most modern day efforts. The fly at the end ...( read more)doesn't come close to the first though.
  • May 3, 2009
    The offspring of deceased scientist Seth Brundle is growing up at an accelerated rate, and after reaching the human age of five but looking much older, starts the inevitable metamorphosis into an upright walking fly creature that seeks revenge on the two-faced, rotten scientists ...( read more)who pretended to be his friends.

    The child, named Martin by the scientists, is played at different ages by Matthew Moore, Harley Cross, and Eric Stoltz. At five Martin also finds his first love interest, a lovely night shift computer file clerk played by Daphne Zuniga.

    I thought it was a fairly intense and entertaining creature feature even if debuting director Chris Walas, creator/designer of the special effects, is not in the same league as David Cronenberg. I think it could have been worse. Performances are reasonably good, even if the villains are one-note and unimaginative.

    Probably what I got more out of it than anything else was a certain visceral pleasure in seeing a bunch of jerks and otherwise expendable characters get their just desserts.

    Not as good as the first movie but not that bad either.
  • September 16, 2008
    I like it just as much as the first one but the original is just clearly the better movie
  • July 24, 2008
    Hey...it was a "double feature"!
    More silly, gross-out fun.
    Basically they just changed the charaters and the location and improved (slightly) on the special effects.
    Other then that, it was practically the same film as "The Fly".
  • November 18, 2009
    While it's not in the same league as the first, it's an extremely entertaining movie. Eric Stoltz was great and made the film seem a little bit more polished. The effects looked great and the story was fairly well done and was pretty logical. While I didn't like the recast of Gee...( read more)na Davis, it was a small price to pay for the overall product. It's a very different kind of film, so I don't think you can properly compare it to Cronenberg's original. This deals more with the sci-fi aspect of the metamorphosis, rather than the tragedy. I think it's a very worthy sequel and well worth your time.
  • October 28, 2009
    okay , not as good as the Jeff goldbloom version
  • October 21, 2009
    A poor sequel made after the awesome first movie.
  • July 2, 2009
    not as good as the first one was butcherd by the b.b.f.c. when released at cinema
  • June 27, 2009
    The first movie all over again with a different setting and characters. Did they do that on purpose or was it totally accidental? Anyway, the effects were good but that was about it.

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