No, this is not an April Fools joke, I had to take down the other version and re-edit it further because it got claimed (if this version does too, I'll just leave it up). This episode was first released in June 2014. Unlike a lot of the older episodes I've re-uploaded, I had the original source files on hand, so this episode is now presented in HD (the original Blip version was not). This episode loses about 1m 18s from it's original, mostly from the film clips, although there have also been reductions to dragging sentences, and in one instance I used an alternate take. This was coming off the end of my "shouty" phase, where I was trying to sound a bit normal, but I understand if it still sounds a little coarse. Feel free to re-post your comments.

Film Brain: WHAT THE **** IS EGYPT? Me: I'm sure the writers don't know either.

I've worked with computers and networking and I can confirm that that technobabble was complete gibberish. They could've legitimized it by throwing in some real terms like "IP address" or, this was 1996 right so, "modem."

Gamesmaster promoted the hell out of this film, even went on the set to do a piece. I swear someone even offered a walk on part as a prize in the UK.

Lawnmower Man 3 : Jobes Fremium App with optional microtransaction

The only thing I remember from this film is hearing Max Headroom shouting "Tell me what Egypt means, Doctor, before I get REALLY FUCKING *PISSED OFF!!!"*

17:30 To be fair, Matt Frewer’s pretty good in Watchmen

I'm willing to bet they only hired Matt Frewer as a casting joke for being Max Headroom. Hence allowing him to do his "Max Headroom" routine.

16:30 Col. Sanders: "They're called Instant Movies sir, they're available BEFORE the movie is finished"! Dark Helmet: "PREPARE TO FAST FORWARD"!

You know it's bad when the review is more entertaining than the movie itself

Losing to BioDome? Now that's just sad.

20:34 "Soon my Box will be on countless televisions around the world, feeding me credit card numbers, bank codes, SSSSSSSSEXUAL fantasies and little white lies"! -Riddler

The only way you could have a second movie of The Lawnmower Man with Jobe in it could had been: 1- Jobe is "uploaded" into another person that has amnesia: this results on this person slowly having the same powers and brain power of Jobe but he could had to struggle with Jobe itself to not have the entire control of his/her person because he could ended up like some sort of split personality disorder where the second personality has superpowers. 2- Jobe is still inside the internet but trying to find the way to control and re-shape cyberspace and the analog world to his own image: it still makes the ending of the first movie relevant and expands upon the concept of a being that started as a simple mortal and became godlike by adquiring the powers to change reality at its own will, this makes for a more wacky and crazy premise yes but the first had some glimmers of this with the whole Virtual Bees and that Golden Jobe gigant head so why not amp up the crazy factor even more? 3- Jobe does obtain world domination and changes everything to his own version of "reality" but he is still trapped into a Virtual Reality simulation and none of the things that happend in the first movie are real at all: could be that you see in the sequel Jobe conquering the world and you have this dystopian future like in this movie, where people formed some kind of resistance to fight against the corrupt cyber-god and in the end when this resistance thinks that has the upper hand Jobe wipes them out but in reality he didnt even conquered the world but was one hell of an advanced VR simulation created by the doctor of the first movie to contain Jobe from reaching more and more computers and mainframes, leading him into a false sense of achivement, since he is a virutal construct and not a human anymore this program can manipulate his memory so he doesnt even know when the simulation begins and when it ends also it can even re-arrange it into a point where Jobe didnt knew it was a simulation and then restart it all over again without even knowing about previous loops. THERE HOLLYWOOD!!! 3 fucking premises that are quite sucky and stupid yeah but AT LEAST you can have some sort of link with the first one and also have some sense of what the hell is going on in the movie, it wasnt all that hard so why you didnt THOUGHT ABOUT THIS BEFORE SHOVING A POINTLESS SEQUEL?!

The building where Evil Corp (TM) is located is the Griffith Observatory in real life. It's been featured in many bad films, along with Rebel Without a Cause and the first two Back to the Futures.

20:01 I noticed a lot of old sci-fi movies used to portray hacking scenes with some sort of CGI mini-games. Weird Science is one that comes to mind.

Film brain: what the f is egypt? Linkara: The real enemy ACHIENT EGYPT

Kevin Conway tragically passed away in 2020 from cancer..

Lest you forget, you’re brilliant, I’ve been watching some of your older synopsis from when you were a kid and all I can say is I can tell you you’ve worked hard it really shows. You’re great! 👍

If I made a third lawnmower man, it would ignore this, and focus on jobes backstory more.

21:43 Why...why did they make the VLI logo one step short of a Star of David? Do I really want to know?

This is one of the funniest film reviews I've ever seen through the years I keep on coming back to it and laughing just as much as I did the first time

Was that guy even speaking English during that "hacking" scene? I think someone just threw together a bunch of random words in lieu of actual technobabble.

Somehow, this film really reminded me of some old horror film called Ghost in the Machine where a serial killer's mind got uploaded into the electric grid and started killing people through electronic devices.

I don't care what anyone says, I love the first movie.

How this managed to avoid landing on Siskel and Ebert's worst of 1996 I'll never know

I know my go-to hacking movie is three-dimensionalizing variables.

This whole movie looks like a Peter Gabriel music video.

Lawnmower Man is a movie I think would be perfect to reboot. Changing VR to an A.I. implant would make it a little more realistic.

Y'know, it bugs me because I think the only really interesting thing about Lawnmower Man was the relationship between Jobe and Peter, and both these movies just totally squander that potential. It's cool to see a fun review of one of these movies. I haven't thought about these things since I watched the first one as a little kid for some reason. For the longest time I thought it was just a fever dream I had.

Matt Frewer _can_ play villainy. I point to his guest spot in the two-art Season 2 finale of _Da Vinci's Inquest._ He does get affable, but it plays well into the juxtaposition of the sexually violent nature of his character. Even his hamming is very well restrained. Also, I think the reason this film didn't receive the notoriety is because the first _Highlander_ wasn't just a commercial success, but also quickly became a cult phenomenon. I mean, there's a reason why they made sequel after increasingly terrible sequel, a TV series that lasted six season with its own spin-off, an animated series that somehow lasted two seasons, and continuations and universe expansions in various other media. As much as it was a box office success, I doubt audiences wanted to see a _Lawnmower Man_ franchise, so when they saw there was a sequel, they collectively said "I'll pass."

33:15 WHAT THE FACK IS EGYPT??!! As far as I'm concerned, this is the quintessential episode of Bad Movie Beatdown; no other episode even comes close to this one, and I love the way Filmbrain gradually becomes more hysterical as the movie progresses. One tragically overlooked aspect of this stupid film is the soundtrack. Robert Folk really outdid himself on this movie.

18:02 - Really, dude? 25:43 - The hell is that Scream? 26:11, 29:51, 29:52 - *Yep.*

I miss this , it's now April of 2022 and I still rematch these a few times a year, you should consider bringing back bmbd

Jobe: Is a cyber god. But can't kill 2 scientists and some teenagers.

that was the current year and this was the original memetic cringe-parody before it was a thing. all those references to the virtuality cyberhighway. we were 5 years away from getting our homes hyperlinked and couldn't have known what an accurate predictor this would be of the social web eating itself. this is so ahead of it's time, i can't even.

The opening of this movie reminds me of the opening to Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension. They both open with footage from the previous film (or in the case with PA, footage from 3 movies ago), but completely contradict what actually happened. The only difference is that with The Ghost Dimension, they *_DELIBERATELY_* altered a specific part of the original footage to make it seem like it happened in the ending of 3, even though it didn't, then "seamlessly," transition to new footage with blatantly obvious replacements for the child actors who don't even match with the original footage. That movie pisses me off and makes the fourth movie look good.

Can you imagine if this sequel came out today? Think of the Twitter posts. Just walked out of lawnmower man 2 15 minutes in. Here's a tip to save money. #Lawnmowerman2 don't see it. It was so bad, everyone in the theater walked out.

Was that theme at the end a blatant ripoff of Jurassic Park? I saw this film on VHS sometime in the late 90's, and also was shocked at how cheap it looked. I am surprised it was released in theaters, with effects that feel like a 90's TV movie. Also, I believe the film was originally intended to be a standalone film, and not a sequel to The Lawnmower Man, which explains the continuity errors and the vastly different tone and setting.

I just watched both of these for the first time. While it is like 50 percent gibberish, the sequel is really not one of the "worst movies ever made". There are plenty of movies that are worse than this one.

I guess if the Information Superhighway is just a literal highway, the. Egypt is probably just the country in North Africa.

Lawnmower Man 2 feels more like a parody than a true sequel. So in otherwords, it's "The Lawnmower Man but its a parody of itself". (6:33)

Ah the 90's and stuff blowing up for no reason other than it looked cool

That kid has a knack for ending up in fantasy worlds! The movie-verse from Last Action Hero, The Cyber-verse in this movie!

So that Max Headroom actor was in that episode of Star Trek TNG when he was a fake time traveler.

Why didn't they just claim Job's digital consciousness jumped into another man's body? That could have made a little sense.

Only one good thing to say about this movie and that is it provided the sample for Lord of Tranz

I remember buying this movie in a 2 for one pack along with the first film and although the first movie isn't anything special, it did entertain me. when I put on the second film however I didn't even get through it while concious, because I fell asleep after 20 minutes and only woke up to see the scene you see at 34:30. after that I just turned over and slept another 20 minutes, woke up and went on with my life.

I kinda wanna watch it just for Matt Frewer, he's hilarious. As a kid I thought the original CGI Jobe was legit scary in part one, but in part 2 he's just a goofball and a budget Max Headroom, lol. You'd think they would just put him in the makeup to simulate CGI like in the max headroom show, not try to convince us they resurrected a dead, burnt, headless body.

Noticed in this video that GARETH EDWARDS was the special effects supervisor on this film. Also, how do you leave out the scene where they have the dog hacking the computer for them?!?

this got copyright claimed? who the hell would copyright this? AND WHAT THE HELL IS EGYPT?!

This reminds me of your Fat Slags Review cause it was originally going to be a April fools Joke

17:15 - It's the other way around. Jim Carrey stole his shtick from Frewer's Max Headroom character. 32:33 - Are you implying that there are GOOD Highlander sequels? The high-tech "future" and they don't even have flat screen monitors? I can't believe this wasn't direct to video.

They can make up for this by restarting everything from scratch. Time has passed too much now to have a real legit sequel.

I wanna make PART 3 and have YOU starr in it as JOBE 3.0. You got that something. Maybe getcha into some sorta kungfu bootcamp so that you're ripped like RAMBO. Oil ya down. Getcha a He-Man Haircut. And we're off... :) Great work, here, bro man. Cheers.

Should this have even been called lawnmower man 2? No. It's should be called idiots in cyberspace trying to stop Max headroom from destroying the earth. Will your brain survive?

thanks for re-uploading this in a higher quality, I've been watching you for years so its nice to see these available again (despite the intro change variation, but nowadays you need to make videos work with KZfaq somehow, so i understand that).

Why didn't they just say that they grew a whole new body for the guy since his old one was completely destroyed and then they could have said Pierce Brosnan was the one who had gotten plastic surgery

This whole entire sequel is like the show the producers were trying to put on to get it so terrible that it would bomb the first night!

I suck at computer terms and such and even I know all that techno crap they say in the movie is complete BS.

great review the first time I ever watched the lawn mower man I think I was watching Wilmore Man part 2 and when he said this is starting to piss me off my parents heard it and the reason why they heard it was because I was riding in a car and I had headphones plugged into the television and I leaned back and the headphone came unplugged and right as a lawn mower man said this is starting to piss me off and started swearing they made me take out the tape and never let me finish watching it but this shows me how stupid this movie truly was and I'm glad I never finished it as a child course I was mesmerized by cuz it was a bunch of bright lights and explosions in it

I haven't seen the film so I can't judge but I admit, I chuckled at the incest joke.

is this accent for real? if so, my condolences...

If none of the cast returns, then why did they even thought it was necessary.

I saw the original in the cinema when it came out, despite it's ridiculous premise and hit and miss CGI even for the time it was an awesome movie, the sequel on the other hand, well, that's why I'm here :)

This movie recently got a (surprisingly great) HD restoration and Blu-Ray release. At least in the US. The opening being in a weird, small 4:3 box that only takes up a fraction of the screen is present on it... Since most modern HD restorations use the original negatives, all I can assume is that it's some weird, indecipherable stylistic choice, as it leaps to proper widescreen once the movie jumps forward in time. (Maybe it's small because it's a flashback? I dunno.) And yes... before anyone asks, I did buy the Blu-Ray, hahahahaha. I'm a glutton for awful movies (same reason I proudly have _Super Mario Bros_ and _Manos_ on my shelf). Plus I had the first one and I'm a bit OCD about owning every movie in a franchise, even if the sequels are terrible. Hate it when I'm missing one entry.

Uh...did the makers of this sequel realize the first one was a horror film?

So, Jobe took over nothing. Everyone in the virtual reality crowd has expired. And technology has been shoved back to the start of the 1900s. Got it. (Sadly this film counts as canon.)

Thank you for posting, I havent seen number two, but you are the image of it as well. Youre awesome keep up the good work.

I love the first movie I was always interested in seeing the second one even though I heard it was bad I just thought it seemed fascinating since it’s so obscure but man it just sucked

20:01-20:05 It worked with Alien Isolation.

I first saw this movie well over 20 years ago, I saw posters of it at a movie theater which had the tagline "Jobe's War." I rented it from the video store and thought it was boring as hell. I much preferred the original film. But as far as this sequel, I can only assume Matt Frewer needed the money. I would prefer watching somebody mowing the lawn for 90 minutes.

I like how you keep using new 80s kids groups for describing our heroes (the explorers, the goonies…etc)

Wow the irony that it opened on the same weeked as James Bond

Is it wrong to say that Jobe kind of looks like Brainiac in one scene?

I could have sworn in half the shots of Jobe that it was Jeffrey Combs playing him, he looked totally like him...

I did do a fanmade 3rd lawnmower man back in 2003. It's called cyber warrior. It was a more darker and grittier sequel to the first.

Kevin Conway? From Gettysburg to this?!

I do like these reviews, especially Prometheus, that film made me crave a lobotomy so I could forget Alien ever happened.

Narrator sounds like a bad p.take of ‘The Inbetweeners’ char. Hard to listen to.

I don’t see what’s point for having a subtitle for a sequel then calling it just its title its number for a sequel

The first dam wasn't even built in Egypt. The world's oldest known dam is the Jawa Dam in Jordan. By the way, I realized that Peter actually says, "The chip is a dam."

The First movie is AWESOME~ Never knew there was a second~

I actually watched this sequel last night. Was totally disgusted. How the heck could they release this piece of trash movie to be the sequel of a epic movie? The storyline itself does not follow from the sequel correctly. In part 1 of the Lawnmower Man, it showed clearly how Jobe managed to upload his consciousness into the system, thus causing his body to rot. This was way before the bombs went off. There was a scene when Dr. Lawrence Angelo removes the helmet from Jobe's head and it showed a head that was rotten away. So how the F@#$ can Part 2 show a version of Jobe's body that "Survived" the explosion whereas he technically died before the explosion. Plus the Jobe inside the system made it out, seconds before the explosion after finding a back door. I'm a fan of the classics and the Lawnmower Man 1 is an epic movie in the time it was released. "Part 2" was not a worthy sequel in any way.

Ely Pouget was in this? I can't believe I didn't realise till now. Must have been fresh off the heels of Death Machine lol

Happy 30th anniversary lawnmower man.

Lawnmower Man is ok, its quite original film, idea about uplifting using virtual worlds + drugs as stimulants is quite interesting

There's no way we would be living in such a Jetsons-esque world in just 6 years (in 1998, no less) after the first movie, set in 1992. At least BTTF2's futuristic setting in the first half envisioned the future, 26 years after when the movie was made, not just 6 years. So LM2 should've been set in 2012. That would've made way more sense. What the hell!?

I suspect King sued because the film bears absolutely no resemblance to the short story it claims to be based on.

Weird he talks about the effects being bad because of the budget. Lawnmower Man 2 had a $15 million budget while the first had a $10 million budget.

That was the magic of the 90's nobody understood shit so you could just yap and no one really cared

They could've done so much better with this. The every phone ringing was very cool, a sign that he's in control.

Why did i watch such strange movies as a kid?

You are hilarious in this episode!

I would have picked Mark Hamill as jobe.

I thought that too about the aspect ratio that it looked like a sega cd game

I just noticed that the imdb screenshot lists Ben & Arthur as a slightly better movie to this... that is bad.

RIP Kevin Conway

You have given me motivation to see this movie.

Great, entertaining review as always

Maybe Egypt Was used in assasins creed origins