THE STORY: In the remake of "The Fly", starring Jeff Goldblum, Dr. Seth Brundle was
transformed into a fly monster.  Before he underwent his final metamorphosis, he impregnated his girlfriend, Veronica.  This movie begins with Veronica giving birth to that child.  It's an ugly birth, what with her whole womb coming out with the baby still inside. Veronica dies of fright
just before a normal looking infant emerges from the sac.

A few months later (I guess), Martin appears to be about four years old.  Young Martin is introduced to Bartok, who runs a BIG CORPORATION. Bartok wants Martin to think of him as his dad. A couple more years later, Martin looks like a young teenager.  Like any teenager, he's bound and determined to push his limits. To do this, he puts on a really goofy looking helmet and crawls around in the vent system. On one of his excursions he meets a dog and they become friends.   Martin goes to visit his dog one night but the dog has been moved to Bay 17. Martin goes there and sees the dog loaded into his father's telepod machines. The teleportation goes somewhat awry, what with the dog being turned into Fozzy Bear and all.  (Oh yes, you read that correctly.)

Yet more years later, Martin has matured into (gasp!) Eric Stoltz! The horror!  Bartok sets Martin to work on improving the telepods so they'll stop deforming every damn thing put into them.  One night, Martin needs a plant to test out an improvement he's made, so he borrows one off the desk of Beth, a filing clerk. Martin kills her cactus but she falls in love with him anyway.

There's a party which Martin attends but isn't really into. He wanders into a specimin chamber where he finds they've been keeping his poor dog alive. Furious, Martin kills the dog out of mercy.

Finally (and I mean finally) Martin begins to transform into something. Bartok is revealed to be evil and Martin has to escape from the laboratory. He and Beth track down an old friend of Veronica's.  I didn't catch his name, so I'll call him Crazy Old Drunk. Crazy Old Drunk tells Martin there's no hope and makes a few good one liners besides. Martin's transformation scares Beth so she does what any B-movie girlfriend would do . . . she calls Bartok to ask for help. (In other words, the dumbest thing possible.)

The movie kind of picks up here, with Martin cracking out of his shell and killing people in various gory ways.  However, he still likes dogs. Martin runs himself and Bartok through the telepods simultaneously, which makes Martin normal and turns Bartok into a man wearing a latex monster suit. Bartok is placed in the specimin chamber where they were keeping the dog.  The End.

This movie was long and boring. Obviously, the only reason one would watch this movie would be to see Martin turn into a monster fly and kill people.  That only lasts about ten minutes and he doesn't do too much even then. The director also oversaw the creation of the monster f/x, so you'd think he would have devoted more time to showcasing them.

BEST LINES:  "I had no pity for the man. He bugged me." - Crazy Drunk Guy, regarding the late Seth Brundle. (Get it? Fly? Bugged me? Oh, never mind.)

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?:

1.) Why is Veronica giving birth in Bartok's lab facilities? In the first movie, she was planning to get an abortion, so why is she even having the baby in the first place? Did Bartok have her kidnapped?

2.) Martin emerges from Veronica still inside the womb.  Wouldn't that do some major damge to Veronica?  I know women have their uteri removed all the time, but they don't just have it torn out.  I know that she did die, but it was made to look like she died of fright, not physical trauma.

3.) After the dog was turned into Fozzy Bear, why did they keep it alive?  It would have been more valuable to them dead.  That way they could open it up, biopsy its organs, catalog internal damage, and maybe just figure out what went wrong with the teleportation process. Alive it's just a deformed dog.

4.) Further on the subject of the dog, it was deformed, yes, but it jumped about six feet and bit a guy's hand off!  It couldn't have been all that messed up. It took about five people to hold it down!  Years later, after it had been in the pit and fed nothing but white slop, it was still strong enough to lunge at Martin and try to attack.  If it had been taken care of, instead of dumped into that pit, it might have lived a relatively normal life, just a lot more ugly than your average dog.

5.) When Martin begins the change, he confronts Bartok and begs for his "medicine."   Bartok informs him that the "medicine" was just water. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought it would kill someone to inject water directly into a vein.

6.) After Martin's transformation, why does he kill so many people so brutally? He melts all the flesh off one guy's head and then steps on him. And the guy was just some poor shmuck earning a paycheck as a security guard! Martin was certainly powerful enough to disable him without even seriously injuring him. You can't argue that it's his "fly" half taking over because he spares the life of an attack dog.

SEX AND/OR NUDITY:  None really, you see Beth naked through a steamed up window, and she and Martin have sex, but you don't see much.

A FEW MORE POINTS OF INTEREST: When Martin is busting out of his cocoon, his nurse is in the room.  She watches and gets killed when Martin hatches. If I were in a room when some giant-ass cocoon starting hatching, I'd flee fast enough to tear a hole in the space time continuum.

Bartok asks the security office to track the transformed Martin on the camera system. They say they can't because they don't know what he looks like. Just how many fly-monsters are there in the place that they couldn't pick out Martin?

Martin doesn't look anything like a fly.  Uh-uh.  No way.

Scorby, Bartok's security chief, goes to fight Martin one-on-one.  In a similar situation, I'd have called out, "Hey Martin!  I'm just going to back into the corner over here and let you have at Bartok.  Do whatever you want with him.  I won't make a move against you unless you come for me."  No security job is worth my life.  (Although Scorby looked like he'd need a hefty paycheck to buy all the twinkies and beer he must eat.)

Okay, they put Bartok in the specimin pit because? Was it revenge for all the lousy Christmas bonuses he gave out?

THE FINAL JUDGEMENT: For committing the crimes of being long, boring, and plain stupid, I would normally sentence this movie to carry a tombstone on its back for the remainder of its days.  However, it had just enough gore, and the Crazy Drunk Guy had some good lines.  Therefore, I grant a reprieve of one solitary devil.

Notes from the Inferno: As Emptyshell wondered, so did I about Veronica giving birth to Martin. In the first movie she was terrified that the baby would be a mutant. ( I seem to remember a giant maggot coming out of her, not her uterus, but I haven't seen this movie in years.) As for Bartok...who wouldn't want to stick their boss in a pit?