The Flash II: Revenge of the Trickster

In Central City, Barry Allen (John Wesley Shipp) is prepared to watch a TV movie with Christina 'Tina' McGee (Amanda Pays). However, Detective Megan Lockhart (Joyce Hyser) calls him telling that she is in danger in another town. The Flash runs and rescues her from the insane criminal James Jesse (Mark Hamill). Then he has a love affair with Megan. Meanwhile James Jesse is transported to Central City in the police car, but he succeeds to escape and kills the officers. Then he becomes The Trickster and is obsessed for Megan, but The Flash protects her. The Flash decides to challenge The Trickster and he finally arrests the criminal. However, during the trial he is helped by The Prank, who has a crush on him, and he escapes from the justice, promising revenge against The Flash, Megan and Central City. What will The Flash do?

"The Flash II: Revenge of the Trickster" is a cartoonist television show, with a typical story from the comic books from decades ago. The plot is silly, but Mark Hamill steals the show performing one of the funniest villain ever. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): The Flash II: A Vingança do Mágico" ("The Flash II: Revenge of the Magician")

this movie was brilliant! Mark Hamill played the role of the trickster very very well. CONGRATS TO HIM! he is a wonderful actor. This movie was very funny, but it also had me in suspense. It is a great movie, but i don't think it would be as great as it seems without Hamill.

I rented this movie the other day, and must say I have not seen a worse movie in quite some time. The main reason I picked up the movie was to see Mark Hamill in something other than Star Wars. Now I know why Hollywood wasn't really knocking down his door. The acting by all parties involved in this was awful. The two main females were especially atrocious.

The movie itself feels like it has ended 4 or 5 times before the actual end of the movie. Each time I'm hoping that the torture is over, but no, it still goes on. The Trickster escapes from the courthouse or from jail, or from wherever once again, and goes to fight the Flash once again.

The use of The Flash's powers was pretty sparse as well. He runs around fast a little bit, juggles to himself while beating on the Trickster a bit, but doesn't really do anything cool. The Flash is more than just running fast.

Special effects for this movie were actually one of the decent parts, considering it's made for TV budget, it didn't look too bad. The Flash's costume was also rather well put together.

Overall though, this was a very disappointing movie, both as a fan of Mark Hamill, and as a comic book fan. I'd recommend staying far away from it.

Once again the first season of The Flash produces a second film. This one went far enough to get mark Hamill to play the Trickster, who was frozen I believe in the 50s to be thawed out in the 90s. He, the Trickster, plays the role of the criminal genius born far before his time, so he freezes himself to awaken in 2000, but the timer malfunctions and releases him in the 90s. It was very campy but a good super hero story worthy of comic book legend. If only Sci-fi channel would rerun this series and its films to remind people and entertain younger generations.

From the beginning with Danny Elfman's theme this made for video movie displays an ability to entertain beyond it's low budget TV expectations. Mark Hamill's performance as The Trickster is wonderfully over the top and seems inspired by the 1960's Batman series as does the art direction and cinematography. The Flash II clearly outshines the original pilot episode and shows how great this short lived series could be. Not so happy as a clown but happy none the less.