Django 2: il grande ritorno (1987)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Nello Rossati

Writers:

Sergio Corbucci (character Django)
Franco Reggiani (writer)

Release Date:

22 October 1987 (West Germany)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

Former gunfighter Django has become a monk and abandoned his violent former ways. His daughter is kidnapped...

Plot Keywords:

Monastery | Coffin | Hanging | Mass Hanging | Butterfly

Cast

Franco Nero	...	Django
Donald Pleasence	...	Gunn
Christopher Connelly	...	'El Diablo' Orlowsky
Licinia Lentini		(as Licia Lee Lyon)
William Berger	...	Old Timer
Roberto Posse		(as Robert Posse)
Alessandro Di Chio
Rodrigo Obregón
Micky
Bill Moore
Consuelo Reina	...	Dona Gabriela

Also Known As:

Django Strikes Again (USA) (dubbed version)
Django 2
Django 2: Django Strikes Again (Malaysia: English title) (video CD title)
Ritorno di Django (Italy)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Norway:18 | UK:18 | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Colombia

Company:

National Cinematografica

Movie Connections:

Follows Django (1966)

Entertaining, but not the best sequel. Watch it for Franco Nero!

The only official (but certainly not the best) and up to now the latest sequel to Sergio Corbucci's 1966 masterpiece Django, "Django 2: Il Grande Ritorno" aka. Django Strikes Again, is definitely not worthy of the original, but it is still an entertaining Action/Spaghetti Western genre mix.

Django, who calls himself "Brother Ignatius" now, has turned his back to violence and become a monk, living in a Mexican monastery, when a fatally ill former mistress tells him that he has a daughter and asks him to take care of the child after she's gone. The lady dies a short time later, and the daughter, along with other villagers, has been kidnapped by a ruthless gang of former Hungarian soldiers under the leadership of villainous Orlowski, a man who brutally enslaves Mexican civilians to drudge in a silver mine and forces women and little girls into prostitution, and is therefore referred to as "El Diablo" by the poor population. In order to rescue his daughter, "Brother Ignatius" has to return to his violent former ways and become "Django" again.

The story is not very imaginative, and the locations are a little bit too tropical for a Western, even though the movie is set entirely in Mexico, but Franco Nero's performance makes up for the movie's weaknesses. Made in 1987, 21 years after the original, "Django Strikes Again" is a mixture of a Spaghetti Western and a typical eighties action movie. It is certainly fun to watch, but it's certainly not a masterpiece like the original. Django Strikes Again may be the only official sequel, but it's certainly not the best. I've seen "Django" sequels much better than this, but I've also seen much worse. 6 out of 10 stars because of Franco Nero, the one and only original Django, who saves the movie.