Synopsis
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 chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
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Cast
- Eric StoltzMartin Brundle
- Daphne ZunigaBeth Logan
- Lee RichardsonAnton Bartok
- John GetzStathis Borans
- Frank C. TurnerShepard
- Ann Marie LeeDr. Jainway
- Garry ChalkScorby
- Saffron HendersonRonnie
- Harley Cross10 year old Martin
- Matthew Moore4 year old Martin
Recommendations
- 60
Empire
Whilst this fly is not as tightly scripted or keenly directed as its parent, it does have pace, breathless tension and the sort of gross-out effects that rules out kebabs for some time after the credits have rolled. - 60
IGN
Unlike The Fly, You probably won't remember much of this after seeing it, and when a movie boasts as being no better but equal to the original, you can be pretty sure it isn't. - 50
Time Out
Martin zips from boyhood to manhood in a ridiculously short period, and in no time at all is getting it together with Beth Logan (Zuniga), who doesn't know about his dad being a creepy-crawly. But when Martin's skin starts falling off, she begins to suspect that it's more than just a case for Clearasil, and resolves to help her loved one sort out his confused chromosomes - too late to avoid the onslaught of latex and squishy special effects for which we've all been waiting, and which is indeed the movie's only interesting commodity. Other than that, it's standard directionless fare. - 50
The New York Times
The Fly II is competent but hardly clever. The only respect in which it matches Mr. Cronenberg's Fly is in its sheer repulsiveness, since this film degenerates into a series of slime-ridden, glop-oozing special effects in its final half hour. - 50
Variety
The Fly II is an expectedly gory and gooey but mostly plodding sequel to the 1986 hit that was a remake of the 1958 sci-fier that itself spawned two sequels. - 40
The A.V. Club
The Fly movies could be a metaphor for sequels: Always go for the real article, not the freakishly mutated copy one telepod over. - 38
Miami Herald
If heavy gore is your kind of entertainment, you'll get a buzz out of The Fly II. But be warned -- don't take a squeamish date. [13 Feb 1989, p.C7] - 37
Washington Post
Walas' animatronic Robo-Fly is as clumsy as both Stoltz's Martin and the film's script, which resorts all too often to clever computer graphics and video-flashbacks.
