Oblivion 2: Backlash

This movie, quite frankly, rules. I happened upon it one day while channel-surfing and I can tell you that no movie has quite the effect of Oblivion 2: Backlash. It may not be a good idea to rent this movie, because it may not be able to earn the cost of the rental. However, it's the best movie to accidentally start watching when you don't know what in blazes it is. Yee-ha for Oblivion!

Oblivion 2: Backlash has a promising start but after Sweeney arrives it loses its way. It just isn't as entertaining as the original. Sweeney (and later Jaggar) are simply not as much fun as Redeye and Lash.

Miss Kitty and Mattie are in this one a bit more but we get less of Gaunt and even less of Buteo and Doc Valentine. It's quite short too, and that makes it feel like it is just another episode and not a stand-alone movie.

Oblivion 2: Backlash (1996) is a Full Moon Features movie that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline picks up where the last film left off in the same mid western town on another planet filled with aliens and outlaws. When a woman on the run from the law arrives on the planet she is followed closely by a bounty hunter who enlists the help of the sheriff to bring her in. The task will be more daunting than it sounds.

This movie is directed by Sam Irvin (Gods and Monsters) and stars Richard Joseph Paul (Vampirella), Jackie Swanson (Lethal Weapon), Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster), Meg Foster (They Live), Isaac Hayes (Escape from New York), George Takei (Star Trek) and Carel Struycken (The Addams Family).

They did a really good job bringing so many of the original cast back. Takei, Hayes and Struycken are really great side characters who are the glue that keep the film together. Miss Kitty's Bar is always fun, the attire is unique and well selected and the action scenes are entertaining. The dialogue is very comic book like and light hearted. The CGI is fairly mediocre and the claymation ending was just okay.

Overall this is a fun movie that's about equal to the first film. I would call this an above average picture that I would score a 6/10 and recommend seeing once.

When I stumbled upon the 1996 movie "Oblivion 2: Backlash" here in 2024, I had never actually heard about it. Nor have I heard about the first movie neither, so I didn't know whether or not having to have seen the first movie was crucial to understanding part two.

However, I opted to sit down and watch "Oblivion 2: Backlash" nonetheless, since it was a movie that I had never watched before. I wasn't aware that it was a sci-fi Western comedy movie, but that actually proved to be an interesting mixture of genres.

Writers Charles Band, Peter David, Mark Goldstein, John Rheaume and Greg Suddeth put together a script and storyline that actually was surprisingly entertaining. I surely hadn't expected the movie to turn out to be as entertaining as it did. It was a pretty straightforward script, but the combination of sci-fi, Western and comedy worked well in favor of the movie, and it was definitely something that I genuinely enjoyed.

I am surprised with the cast ensemble in the movie, which includes the likes of Andrew Divoff, Richard Joseph Paul, Meg Foster, Jackie Swanson, Carel Struycken, Maxwell Caulfield, Musetta Vander, Irwin Keyes, George Takei, Isaac Hayes and Julie Newmar. So there are some pretty big names and established talents on the cast list. I was quite surprised to see that. The acting performances in the movie were good, and there were some pretty interesting and memorable characters on the screen.

The swear that Doc Valentine (played by George Takei) did was just hilarious. That was a glorious touch to the movie.

The effects in "Oblivion 2: Backlash" were actually good, and quite a step up from the usual movies that Full Moon produced back in the day.

I found "Oblivion 2: Backlash" to be a rather enjoyable surprise of a movie, and it is actually well-worth sitting down and watching.

My rating of director Sam Irvin's 1996 movie "Oblivion 2: Backlash" lands on a six out of ten stars.

The wild desert planet of Oblivion, bounty hunter Sweeny is search for a saboteur and all hell breaks out in town when the mark strikes a deal to control the mining of Derconium.

Backlash, is padded with a lengthy title sequence and a seven-minute round up of the FullMoon original Oblivion but still crams in plenty of what looks like made for TV action, as the Lash (Musetta Vander) joins with Jaggar (again Andrew Divoff) evil twin of reptilian Redeye.

There's a barrage of flimsy in-jokes (Star Trek's George Takei flashing the Vulcan greeting) Meg Foster, Julie Newmar, Isaac Hayes and the rest of the original cast return (as the films were conveniently shot back to back). There's a new addition Maxwell Caulfield as Sweeney but like its predecessor Vander steals the show.

Director Sam Irvin delivers more campy Western, science fiction fun but you have to be a lover of B-films to enjoy.