Review – The Fly 2

This is much more of a standard horror movie than its predecessor. The kid Geena Davis’s character was pregnant with at the end of the first one is born and immediately “adopted” by an egomaniacal corporate executive who ensconces him in a lab. Eventually daddy’s turning-into-a-fly curse begins to overtake him, sending him scrambling to find a cure. Because this movie predates the fancy computer graphics they would doubtless have used had they been available, it ends up depending heavily on latex puppets that don’t always hold up, especially in close-ups. Otherwise, however, it’s standard movie monster fare with just enough anti-animal-testing rhetoric stirred in to make it worthwhile. Mildly amusing