In Detroit, Axel Foley leads a raid on a chop shop. When they go in, the people inside start shooting at them. Foley's boss, Inspector Todd, joins them. Someone shoots Todd and before dying Todd tells Foley to get him. Foley tries to catch him but some Feds stop him. They don't tell him why they're letting him get away. Based on things the shooters left behind, leads Foley to believe that the shooters have ties to an amusement park in Beverly Hills. So Foely goes there and asks his old friend, Billy Rosewood who's been promoted to a "prestigious position" for help. He meets Billy's new partner, Jon Flint. He asks if they know anyone at the amusement park and Flint tells him he knows the head of security, Ellis DeWald. Foley goes to the park and after a little misadventure, he meets DeWald and recognizes him as the man who killed Todd. But everybody including Flint tells Foley DeWald is a good guy. But Axel knows he's the one. He would be approached a park employee who tries to help him. Axel Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who shot his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles. This thing has NOTHING in common with the original idea. It was more like a cheap-arse cash grab attempt but then falling $10 million short of break even. The problem is that they got it all wrong: Close to no humorous moments, no slapstick, no multiple layers of plot or parallelism, a half hour wasted on a pointless rescue-scene shot with CGI (even Eddie Murphy acted bored doing this), stupid time-wasters such as the "gramma oki doki pushed me" scene, wheeling out the "Serge" figure for five minutes of gay-talk. No suspense, a complete lack of care or passion. Bad writing and sad directing and last but not least fake-landscape-scenery that looked entirely shot in a studio, at a low budget. The music adaptation of Faltermeyer's theme score is inept. <br/><br/>In the E/R movie review books this thing would have to be a fat turkey - at best. I was seriously, seriously (did I say SERIOUSLY) let down by this piece of §hit. BO-RING. Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Hector Elizondo, Timothy Carhart, Theresa Randle, Alan Young, Gil Hill, Bronson Pinchot and John Saxon star in this 1994 action-comedy sequel. This installment begins in Detroit, Michigan where cop, Axel Foley (Murphy) is on a stakeout. Soon, his boss, Inspector Douglas Todd (Hill) is killed in the crossfire by crooked businessman, Ellis De Wald (Carhart). Axel is determined to avenge Todd and tracks De Wald to Beverly Hills, California where he runs an amusement park, Wonderworld. He also reunites with cop friend, Billy Rosewood (Reinhold) and meets his co-worker, Jon Flynt (Elizondo). Axel gets himself in some snags when he tries to confront De Wald and learns of his counterfeiting scheme. Randle (Spawn) plays Janice, a woman who works for De Wald and gets close with Axel, Young (Mister Ed) plays Wonderworld owner, Uncle Dave Thornton, Saxon (A Nightmare on Elm Street) plays De Wald's associate Orrin Sanderson and Pinchot (Perfect Strangers) appears briefly reprising his role as Serge. There's also cameos by directors, Joe Dante and George Lucas. This sequel isn't bad, but not as good as the first 2 films. I missed John Ashton as John Taggart and it seemed like Elizondo's character, Flynt was kind of a substitute. I'm glad Reinhold came back and sort of like the way they play Harold Faltermeyer's classic theme. I still recommend this for Murphy fans. The comedy is mostly restricted to one-liners, some of which aren't funny. And the action is uninspired, barely tapping the vast potential of an amusement park chase film.
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