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Mannequin 2: On the Move (1991)

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Directed by Stewart Raffill
Written by Edward Rugoff, David Isaacs, Ken Levine and Betsy Israel
Budget: $13,000,000
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Mannequin 2 begins in the 17th Century where a prince is trying to marry a peasant girl. The Queen is upset by this and therefore puts an enchanted necklace around her neck that turns her into a statue. This is possible the most plausible part of the entire movie.
We travel 1,000 years into the future, to 1991, I guess (I didn't do the math, nor will I). We are reintroduced to Mannequin mainstay Hollywood Montrose (Meshac Taylor). Hollywood is, in turn, introduced to his new assistant, who bears a striking resemblance to the prince. We also learn that the enchanted peasant girl statue is coming to their department store, and that true love can break the curse.
Hollywood leaves his assistant, Jason, to attend to the mannequins and the peasant girl, and he kisses the dummy! This kid has some serious problems, but lucky for him he removes her necklace and she's real and played by Kristy Swanson.
Jason and Kristy Swanson go dancing and return to his house for the night. In the morning while Jason is making her breakfast, she puts the necklace back on and once again is a statue. Jason's mom catches Jason on top of the statue, in what appears to her to be sexual.
While everybody is freaking out that the peasant girl statue is gone, Jason returns her. He's pretty bummed out. Hollywood is tending to the mannequins when he spies that necklace and removes it and becomes a mannequin himself (oh, the irony).
Kristy Swanson goes on a shopping spree while roided up foreigners (her guards) look for her.
Jason finds Kristy Swanson and they go On the Move in an extremely tiny car. Soon they are caught at Jason's house and Jason goes to jail and peasant girl is once again a statue, now being guarded by the police.
Hollywood holds his presentation (pronounced many times as present-tay-she-un) in which he sings and a bunch of jerks dance badly. Then the peasant girl statue is lowered from a UFO, but Jason is there to itercept her. The creepy villain, who I have made no mention of yet, gets up and tries to stop Jason. Eventually there's a fight in a hot air balloon and the villain is turned into a mannequin and thrown off of the hot air balloon. THE END.
Obviously this was a really awful movie, but it's magnificently awful.

8/10
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