Python Hyena Species 2 (1998): Dir: Peter Medak / Cast: Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Marg Helgenberger, James Cromwell, Mykelti Williamson: Stupid sequel to a stupid film. Premise regards a mission to mars in which the Senator's son is inflicted with an alien virus. At one point he is witnessed blowing his head off with a shotgun only to reform it. He leaves a trail of bloody pregnancies everywhere he goes. Natasha Henstridge returns as a recreated alien only this time she's with us. It all winds down to a battle between two creatures that is in itself impressive, but we have to endure a lot of crap to get there. Well directed by Peter Medak with fine production. Henstridge handles the action well but this time she is basically switching sides and changing her name. Michael Madsen and Marg Helgenberger reprise their roles but they are virtually flat. James Cromwell is wasted as the Senator. It is sad to see him go from Babe and L.A. Confidential to this. The same can also be said of Mykelti Williamson after playing shrimp loving Bubba in Forrest Gump. Unnecessary sequel that does nothing more than attempt to repeat the success of the original as well as present gooey special effects. The first film was little more than the umpteenth ripoff of Alien so do not expect a genius plot from this garbage. If you thought the first one was bad then be forewarned of this. Score: 2 / 10

lois-lane33 I thought the first Species in 1995 was not so bad-derivative of Alien but since Giger had also designed the Species creature it would make sense that it was similar. The dialogue in the sequel is trashy in a number of places which I think downgrades the film distinctively as opposed to what it would have been had they paid more attention to making the dialogue more intelligent. Frequently very gory & bloody and also suffers from plot errors in that one of the members of the space team who was exposed to alien DNA isn't considered suspect along with the others even after the other crew members have become fully infected with the aliens DNA. Dumb scripting. Its weird in the sense that they seem to be aiming for a younger audience in this one but if they are aiming for a younger audience they only made the film more death & sex orientated & generally cruder-that is some kind of a warped take on what younger people respond to. I think this film damaged the career of Michael Madson who was pretty good in the original and made Natasha Henstridge a non entity in the film business also. It looked like the budget was fairly generous for the film but I doubt if they made it back in the box office. It's always a mistake to treat the audience as if they are morons whose idea of a good time is slurping beer through a beer hat. Not true science fiction so much-more like schlock cinema at its schlockiest.

oops i forgot While nowhere as overly lovable as the original, and far less interesting than the succeeder, Species 2 is commonly regarded as the downfall of the series.I don't blame those who say that. It may just be me but the CGI looks worse. And the gore is piled on by the bucket load. Since the gore was one of the reasons the original got a cult following. Guess they thought "Hey, people like the blood. Lets add more this time..." The gore appears to be a desperation move in this flick. And speaking of desperation, we move to the...other....reason the original got a cult following. The soft core porn and, almost random, nudity. Taking that little ingrediant, and like gore, doubling it. Not to be funny, but watching the original on your own...when the nudity arrived...its hard to keep your friend down...this time it just over doses it a tad, almost making it feel awkward considering this is not meant to be a porn video. I'm giving it 7, which kind of sounds contradictory considering all I talked about was the bad things. But it is...at times...decent. And if you want "fan service" then this film is the mecca of them all. Just consider this is a little less action chick, a little more skin flick.

lampbizkat This movie is what my ultra conservative right wing teachers wish they could have showed me during sex education about what will happen if you have sex before marriage. It's just down right disturbing! Whoever thought of the plot to this was just down right messed up. There's so much gore it made me sick. The scene of girls having sex and then showing their stomachs explode was just really screwed up. What's worse is I had no idea what I was getting into. My friend made me sit down and watch this disturbing piece of garbage.One of the worst Sci-Fi films.