Trancers II (1991)
7/10
Good Fantasy Fun. A Decent Sequel & Nice Seeing Tim Thomerson & Helen Hunt Again.
7 May 2024
I really enjoyed Trancers (1984) & after that one i watched this sequel & it was a fun flick.

Trancers 2 is very low-budget like the first film but with a very early 90's cheesy charm & a cast of awesome B movie stars.

Both, Trancers & Trancers 2 are fantasy sci-fi B movie fun & both earned a solid 7/10 in my opinion.

I'm not bothered about all the other sequels as they look very bad in quality.

Anyway Trancers 2 is set six years after the original & hard-boiled future cop Jack Deth has been living in 80's turned 90's Los Angeles with his now wife Lena, played once again by a fun Helen Hunt. So nice having Helen Hunt back & a treat as she didn't have to at all as by the early 90's she was a fairly big star. This time old enemy Whistler is back, well his brother is. Yes Whistler had a bad brother know one knew about & he wants to continue his brothers evil plan to take over the world with his Trancers.

Things get complicated even more so for Jack when his wife (Megan Ward) returns to Los Angeles from a different time period before she was killed by Whistler. So we get some fun with Jack mixed up trying to please each wife whilst keeping everything cool. There's almost a fun cheesy situation comedy feel to the flick at times. The budget seems very low so we get more comic bits for our heroes. Like the first film Trancers 2 could've done with more action but for the low budgets of the films they are decent entertainment for what they are. I really enjoyed Trancers 1&2 but I'm not bothered about the rest of the sequels because the quality dropped massively.

Tim Thomerson is great once again as Jack Deth & his chemistry is still great with Helen Hunt.

This time the main base of evil is an insane asylum where the head of the place is Whistler's evil brother played by Villain expert Richard Lynch as Dr. Wardo. There's a bunch of B movie familiar faces scattered throughout the film, there's Jeffrey Combs, Megan Ward, Barbara Crampton & more, all game for some fun in this crazy cheesy fantasy action comedy.

Trancers 2 is simply a fun Video era B-movie piece entertainment with a nice Nostalgic feel to it with it's early 90's time period.

Charles Band made another good Trancers movie.

Trancers 2 really reminded me of the better times of the video stores & the gems you would discover there.
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