When Joan Wilder is abducted while on a trip along the Nile, her boyfriend, Jack Colton, and pal Ralph rush to rescue her and retrieve a fabled jewel.
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Cast
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| Michael Douglas | ... | Jack | |
| Kathleen Turner | ... | Joan | |
| Danny DeVito | ... | Ralph | |
| Spyros Fokas | ... | Omar (as Spiros Focás) | |
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Avner Eisenberg | ... | Jewel |
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Paul David Magid | ... | Tarak |
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Howard Jay Patterson | ... | Barak |
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Randall Edwin Nelson | ... | Karak |
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Samuel Ross Williams | ... | Arak |
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Timothy Daniel Furst | ... | Sarak |
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Hamid Fillali | ... | Rachid |
| Holland Taylor | ... | Gloria | |
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Guy Cuevas | ... | Le Vasseur |
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Peter DePalma | ... | Missionary (as Peter De Palma) |
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Mark Daly Richards | ... | Pirate |
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This is the sequel to "Romancing the Stone" where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go to some middle eastern country as a guest of the sheik, but there she is abducted and finds her- self involved with the "jewel". Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. They all go from one adventure to another... What is the story of this "jewel"? Written by Sami Al-Taher <staher2000@yahoo.com>
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Country:
USARelease Date:
11 December 1985 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Budget:
$25,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$6,645,455, 15 December 1985Gross USA:
$75,973,200Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$96,773,200Company Credits
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Performed by Mark Shreeve
Written by Mark Shreeve, Pete Q. Harris and Richard Jon Smith
Produced by Mark Shreeve and Pete Q. Harris
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Kathleen Turner resisted making the sequel because of her money squabble over the original, and because she didn't like the script, over which she had negotiated approval. She only signed after Fox filed a $25 million lawsuit against her. See more »Goofs
At the beginning of the movie, the amount of zinc oxide on Joan's nose changes with each camera angle. See more »Soundtracks
Legion (Here I Come)Performed by Mark Shreeve
Written by Mark Shreeve, Pete Q. Harris and Richard Jon Smith
Produced by Mark Shreeve and Pete Q. Harris
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A previous reviewer has taken this film to pieces, and while many of his criticisms are well-made, I can't go along with the overall rating.
If you're looking for plausibility, then this is certainly one of the worst movies of all time, but it wasn't actually intended as a documentary, unless I miss my guess completely.
This is a silly action adventure, mostly set in North Africa. There are good guys and bad guys, and they have personalities rather than well-rounded characters. There's some slapstick humour. Danny de Vito is cutely irritating, Michael Douglas is brave and rugged. We even have a scene in a tribal village compete with tribal dancing.
In other words, it's an updated version of the Stewart Granger/Rod Taylor African adventure type movies.
What makes this film worth watching, though, are the chase-type scenes, the specific likes of which I'd not seen before. Suffice to say that they're unusual.
If you can accept a plot with more holes than a tuna net and just let it flow by, this is a fairly jolly way to spend a couple of hours.