Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace [1996]

This movie really made us all ask a question of sequels: is it better to make a sequel assessible to people who did not see the first movie, or is it better for a sequel to presuppose that anyone watching it is already familiar with the original? This movie definitely did the latter and as we were all unfamiliar with Lawnmower Man, this movie was an utter mystery for most of it. Adam would not give specifics on how he found this movie although whether he forgot or was protecting his sources, we don't know. Either way, this movie is a ripoff of basically every sci-fi movie that came before it and the Man himself sometimes seems like he's doing a bad Jim Carrey impression on top of that.

The plot, as far as we could piece together, is about a guy called Jobe who invented a computer chip that controls an entire virtual reality world. Some Republicans who only care about money are using him to do their dirty work but he has been corrupted and wants to destroy the world to live in the virtual world. This is a very stupid plan. There's a doctor with horrible white dude dreads who is trying to stop him with some other scientist he has romantic tension with and some kids, one of whom is a friend of Jobe and remembers him as his family's lawnmower man. We never learn if this means something other than, you know, a landscaper. The world gets saved but also Jobe goes back to normal. This is the best I can do with this plot as none of us understood it.

The movie was really mediocre. Most of our joy came from the liberal use of the verb "to jack". Often it was "jacking in" or "jacking out" but at least once it was "jacking off" and we were pleased.

Spoon Rating: 2