Tremors 2: Aftershocks
Whilst watching what is sure to be a classic I couldn’t help but ask myself over and over again why Kevin Bacon and Reba had decided to sit the sequel out. But avid Tremor fans will be pleased to know that the drunk and gun-toting psycho from the first film are back and kicking worm ass.
At first this movie seemed to be a cleverly disguised way to subliminally persuade viewers to try and eradicate the Mexican prescience in Mexico but as I soon learned its really a way to destroy the will of prisoners in America. You see as most people know , American prisoners are allowed to watch cable, and also as many people know Tremors, the original, has been shown on nearly every cable channel known to man. Unfortunately for the United States Penal System Tremors was a pretty good movie, so in order to rectify the situation the powers that be have come up with this sequel.
The well-rounded cast of has-beens and no-name wannabes is sad even for a terror flick. In most bad horror movies the director/writer (which is usually the same person) has the decency to find someone hot to sleep with in order to put into their film, but not this guy. The semi-sultry never-sexy Helen Shiver fails on all counts of looking good. To my horror toward the end we learn that was a Playboy Playmate and I soon realized that I had seen this unappealing woman naked at the beginning of the movie. <Bathroom Brake>.
The plot itself is simple enough: Graboids (the affectionate name given to the little worms by that Chinese guy in the first movie) are running rampant through the soil of the ever-important to the American economic structure, Mexico. So in an attempt to find a hero, a snot-nosed little brat named Grady searched the desert of Nevada looking for a washed-up loser in a trailer-luckily the state of Nevada could spare the drunk from the part one for a few weeks and the moving started to get almost interesting. The youngin and Earl went to help Mr. Ortega (a nicely stereotypical Mexican name) with the dis-infestation. Once there they killed bunches of worms before recruiting the nutcase from the first movie (Burt) who came complete with half the Mexican Army’s arsenal. They kill worms. After about an hour of ripping off Dune they decided to move on to a more well-known title and mutated the creatures into freaks that detected only heat a la Predator. They kill worm-beasts. Things explode. They live. The end.
Rating: 
(2.5 cheesi) -----Watch
it when it comes on TV.