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Zeltaebar

A cool fight in the arena and a great car chase at the end does not make up for all the faults of this movie. Such as 1) This is a watered-down PG-13 Mad Max for the kiddies. 2) Too much talking, too little action. 3) Mad Max movie + Tina Turner villain = don't mix. It's like taking something great such as ice cream and throwing a couple of fistfulls of salt in it. Besides these three complaints. I kind of liked it. The mythology behind the Mad Max universe is expanded upon, there is as I already mentioned, an adrenaline-inducing car chase and Mel Gibson is still cool as ice in the title role. Not as bad as some people say.

12 years 4 months ago

nowhereman136

Its not a bad movie. The narrative is better than the previous movies. I remember the characters more in this one too. The problem lies with it's PG13 rating. Mad Max is suppose to be pulpy and ultraviolent. This was watered down. That doesnt make it bad, just a let down. It's actually a pretty good movie to show your kids, before getting them into stuff like Road Warrior, Aliens, or Die Hard

8 years 11 months ago

Shidan

It started off well, but at the end it gets too ridiculous making it the worst of the Mad Max movies.
The film isn't bad, but (specially the end) felt more similar to Hook (1991) than any other Mad Max movie, yes the end has cars, but other than that it didn't feel like I was watching Mad Max.

3 months 3 weeks ago

Earring72

Underrated sequel, yes it suffers from a pg-13 rating and compared to the road warrior it's tame, but what isn't? it's still fun and entertaining. Hadn't seen it in years but really enjoyed it.

6 years 8 months ago

Siskoid

On one podcast or other, I pushed back against a co-host who said Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome wasn't any good. Being my first, and on television at that, my impression was that it was fine. But I'll admit, what I really remembered was Tina Turner as a warlord, and probably more because of her music video than any real memories of the film. Revisiting it, yes, sure, it has structural problems - it feels too episodic, even if the first and second stories crash into each other in the third - but it's very much the template for Fury Road. You have George Miller's impeccable image making and world building, and though it's less high-octane (the fuel is methane, if you want to make your own disparaging review), it still has a crazy vehicle chase at the end. And for those who thought Max had little to no agency in Fury Road, that's also true of Thunderdome. He's a catalyst for the action, but he is more often than not subjected to the story rather than pushing it. And look, any film that gave us the iconic "Two men enter, one man leaves" has its place in the genre canon.

7 years 2 months ago

DisneyStitch

As many commenters have mentioned, it suffers from its PG-13 rating for sure. Other than the railroad car chase at the end it comes off as slightly lackluster compared to the previous installments. The entire kid-oriented plotline weighs the film down a bit but at the same time gives an interesting background to the post-apocalyptic world told through the eyes of the kids. Oh yeah, the one henchman wearing a doll's face on a pole is the world of Mad Max personified. Utter craziness, and it's awesome.

8 years 5 months ago

oligneisti

I have enjoyed the Tina Turner song We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) for almost forty years without seeing this film.

An utterly ridiculous movie. Which I enjoyed. I think it may be more influential than the previous two. There are echoes of the film in countless post-apocalyptic works that have come after it, often in a mocking but loving way.

1 month 3 weeks ago

ucuruju

Not bad. People act as if Road Warrior wasn't already quite cartoonish. This takes it a bit too far, but it has a lot of good action and great sequences and lighting. The script is pretty dumb, but overall it is a lot of fun. We're lucky we got Fury Road later on-- so I don't really get the overdramatic complaining. This is not a bad movie at all and we've got three other great ones. Some franchises don't even get one good sequel.

2 years ago

ThomasFTB

What the fuck is this shit? This isn't Mad Max.
Mad Max movies are made of fire and blood, scored with the sounds of roaring engines and breaking bones. Mad Max movies are mean and nasty, not PG kiddie romps with neutered violence and adowable orphan tribes who talk like Jar-Jar Binks.
I can think of several very colorful words to describe Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, but only one word best describes it.
BETRAYAL.

9 years 8 months ago

Anakin Skywalker

just awful

10 years ago