DRAGON FURY 2 (1996)

 

PHENOMENALITY: *marvelous*
MYTHICITY: *poor*
FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure*
CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTIONS: *sociological*

Okay, here's the sort of forgettable junk that isn't worth the time it takes to dismiss it.

There's a mention on IMDB that the script by the credited writer was so bad that the main actor and other personnel tossed it and concocted their own story. Suffice to say that they didn't succeed in making anything better than awful.

Mason (Robert Chapin) is once more the hero, despite having died at the end of the first film. I'm not sure that the first FURY showed that he had traveled back to his own time, but assuming it did, he's taken in by a future-doctor who puts his body into cryostasis for the next 15 years, and then for unstated reasons decides to revive Mason. But Mason, though hale and hearty once more, has lost his memory and flees the doctor's helping hands.

The real reason for the fifteen-year sleep is to provide Mason with a new romantic partner, one with slightly incestuous overtones. Future-warrior Crystal Blu (Cathleen Anne Gardner) heads a group of rebels against the authority of an evil overlord, Molech (Mike son-of-Chuck Norris). Whereas there was a troop of "dragons" fighting the overlords in Part One, now all the dragon-swordsmen serve Molech. There is no reference to the plague or the medical dictatorship from the first film.

So amnesiac Mason wanders around until a minor dragon-warrior finds him and invites the badass blonde to join Molech's team. Mason does become one of the dragons because he has no reason not to. Eventually Crystal fights with the new Molech-servant and then manages to knock him out and take him back to rebel HQ. The aforementioned doctor tells her at some point that Mason was trained by Crystal's late father, and this revelation leads the young woman to sleep with the time-displaced dead man. There's another assault on Molech's fortress, and Crystal dies to give Mason a good reason to duel Molech. Oh, and there's a cute young girl who has psychic predictions, which don't make any difference to the plot, which again is non-stop fighting, but with far inferior direction this time.

The only half-decent thing about FURY 2 is the logo, in which the Roman numeral "2" is formed by two side-by-side swords.