a5c7b9f00b Darcy is back on the force, but still fights onthe Black Scorpion because &quot;it&#39;s in her nature.&quot; This time, she fights Gangster Prankster; and a new villian emerges when the Mayor tries to protect his federal earthquake relief money: Aftershock. When the two villians team up and kidnap Argyle&#39;s girlfriend, Black Scorpion is faced with the theft of the Scorpionmobile and the imminent destruction of Angel City. If you&#39;ve seen or are planning to see this film, chances are you&#39;ve already seen the first. If not, I suggest you go see that, even if you only have the chance to see one of them. It&#39;s better and it basically lays the foundation for this film. This has more silliness and less style than the first, and one will be hard pressed to find someone, somewhere who wouldn&#39;t rather have seen the first, if given the choice(if the popularity-based ratings are anything to go by, at least). The plot is, much like the first, very simplistic and formulaic. It&#39;s pretty much ripped straight out of a 60&#39;s superhero comic book. The characters, most of them returning from the first film, continue to be comic relief and clichés, and a few of them,little developmentthey have(in the first) actually go backwardsfarthat goes. The villains both lack the originality of the one of the first film; both are rather obviously rip-offs of famous superhero villains(or super-villains, for short). The humor goes more towards the silly and campy, something the first one started nicely on. Fewer one-liners, unfortunately. The action is decent enough… it&#39;s slightly larger in scale than that of the first, but its uninspired filming costs a lot of intensity. There is more direct T&amp;A in this installment, to appease the young males in the audience. Most of it is just there, for no actual reason, making it stand out embarrassingly. The dialog is poor, bothfarwriting and delivery goes. The script has its share of clichés, but judging from the overall tone(and my experience with films that Roger Corman is involved in making), I would wager that it&#39;s fully intentional. All in all, an entertaining and fairly worthy followup to Black Scorpion. I recommend this to fans of the first and of comic book movies in general. I urge anyone to watch the first before trying their luck with this, though, and if you don&#39;t like what you see in that one, don&#39;t bother with this one. It&#39;s just more of the same. 5/10 The vigilante crime fighter is back only this time she is also back on the force. This however does not stop her double lifethe kinky fishnet wearing crime bustershe is called into action once more to stop two villains this time…yes two. The original concept was clearly a homage to more easy going comicbooks and the classic fun camp TV show Batman and Robin starring Adam West…albeit with a slightly adult edge. This time the shameless Batman rip off goes into full forcewe get a Joker-esque bad guy and a female that transforms herself into a supervillainess in her very own tight kinky outfit ala Catwoman.<br/><br/>A female scientist is creating a machine that can predict and stop earthquakes on the west coast of the US. This gets sabotaged by the naughty LA Mayor who needs earthquakes because it brings in vital revenue for him from various sources. At the same time the leading female scientist gets injured or shell shocked (unsure really) during the meltdown of her machine and transforms herself into the supervillainess &#39;Aftershock&#39; to wreak revenge on LA and Black Scorpion, yet strangely not the Mayor directly. Aftershock hires the assistance of petty criminal &#39;Gangster Prankster&#39; to aid her with her plan to destroy LA with a massive quake.<br/><br/>So this time aroundI already said the film really goes down the 60&#39;s Batman and Robin route with overall campness and silliness. Gone is the slightly adult theme of the first film (although there is still a small hint of tits n ass)its replaced with the kind of daft lunacy you&#39;d expect in a cartoon. Its like a blend of DC character rip offs and a Saturday morning cartoon for kids. The two main baddies are clearly heavily influenced by certain DC characters (The Joker, Two Face and Wonder Woman) and their main evil plot is so stupid it stands side by side with Shark Repellent Bat Spray.<br/><br/>Admittedly I did quite like Gangster Prankstera villain due to his freaky twisted visage, slutty stripper girlfriend and playhouse lair. The whole concept is totally clichéd and just slightly unoriginal but it does work for this movie (when do twisted evil clowns ever not work?). The villainess is the head baddie but doesn&#39;t really have much impact aside from having a really nice ass sealed up in latex. Her outfit is much more basic and clichéd along with many other standard superhero designs but the fact she&#39;s a blonde with thigh high boots is obviously for the young male audience. Aside from that its businessusual with pretty much everything else really…same transforming Scorpionmobile with the same poor CGI effects, same lame looking punch ups, same attempts at humour and visual gags but amazingly the same cast also which does deserve kudos.<br/><br/>The whole thing descends into the same dull predictable formulaic plot process you have come to expect from superhero/action flicks. A loved one gets kidnapped, someone gets blackmailed into doing something against the hero, tip offs, inept police, police still against the main vigilante hero despite the good they are doing and a big showdown where everything gets sorted out with a nice neat bow on top. Yet there are still some nice moments, the sequence where Gangster Prankster gets his comeuppance is actually quite well done on a clearly small budget, and lets not forget the odd semi decent car wreck too.<br/><br/>The only real reasons to watch this Corman gem are for the insanely silly characters on display, some cool tacky effects, tight ass in tight latex and of course Black Scorpion fighting Aftershock in a pre-teens wet dream of tight ass in tight latex (and fishnets)…hell it was good enough for me! Not to be taken seriously and of course everyone involved knows just that, hence the film does worka fun wacky tacky piece of superhero fluff just like the first, although not quitegood methinks.<br/><br/>6/10
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