The Reel Rejects - LETHAL WEAPON 2 (1989) IS EVEN CRAZIER!! MOVIE REVIEW!!!

Episode Date: December 26, 2025

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please leave us a rating on your podcast platform choice to be very much appreciated our run stars drawn out how you feeling feeling good then why feeling well feeling swell a nice movie to forget me to get me to forget the rain is happening outside dude i checked i pulled the head up at one point i was like it is it is pounding is it coming down like i don't feel like you guys be able to hear it in the you know react audio but uh you might because there was a moment at least during this where i was like damn i can hear it through the movie.

Damn. So, yeah. But yeah, this was a really fun time, you know, hanging out with the boys, rigs and Murtaugh, once more, back at it again, fighting racist, killing racists. Bonkers. You know, in my book, I consider that a pretty good day, a pretty good movie. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Absolutely. I enjoyed the heck out of this, man.

This is a very fun thing. This franchise, like we said in the first one, has so much a crucial. crude love over time, it has certainly been influential in the buddy cop and, you know, cop action movie genre, stilt house consultants. Love that. Yeah, this was super duper fun and like kind of did all the things a great sequel should do. Like you kind of join our little odd couple Merton Riggs back together in their element. But then, yeah, we encounter their next, you know, real big challenge in this situation with these South African African

diplomats and whatnot. You get a little additional character in Leo Gets, who I believe is good. I think I know that this character returns. You know, I would, I would imagine that if going into part three, like I enjoyed him, I don't know if everybody else did, but it seems like the kind

of character that would be a fan favorite and that people would want to come back. Sam the dog in Burbank the cat again, holding it down. You'll love to see it. Yeah, this was really, really fun. This had the action, this had the fun and the, you know, personality of the unique relationship between Riggs and Murtaugh.

It's true. A lot of fun running jokes, a lot of good payoffs and things like that. And yeah, like an interesting choice of villains, but ones that, you know, given their, you know, disposition are very easy to hate. And that's some nice nods to the three stooges throughout this. Yeah, this was super duper, duper fun. And it's neat to go back because we watch a lot of action throughout the ages. We miss you, Jay Engel, whoever that is. A special shout out to the LAPD Bomb Squad.

Yeah, they probably do a lot of consulting on that. Yeah, to go back and watch these movies, 89, this was. It's really fascinating because, like, you know, obviously we grew up on these era of movies. But to go back now and to see something that was made in the late 80s and to see, you know, just how effective and cohesive the action still is and the, you know, destruction and all the stunt work and all the physical effects and everything.

It's really fun, you know, it's like, it's a time capsule, it's blast for the past. But it's also, you know, something that is, you know, sort of timeless in a way. So, yeah, this was, this was super duper fun. Yeah, this was a quick turnaround, yeah, because the lethal weapon one was 87, this was 89. Well, and two, I mean, like,

the first one does a really nice, job of like setting the doing all the place setting and like really getting you to know are to leads and all that like the first one is maybe a little bit more of a character bonding movie and you take maybe a little more time for personal life stuff with the two of them but i didn't think during this movie that that was like missing very much like i wasn't upset about just kind of being thrown into their new status quo as partners and now this new you know mission this new case yeah and it's refreshing because you know i feel like with movies that are of the buddy cop genre

they typically do this thing where you know they'll do the odd couple thing bickering thing in the first one and they finally get together and then in the second one they find a new reason for them to like break apart and then come back after some form of conflict but this one they were though they were

separate during parts of the movie they never had like an internal quarrel between the two of them which I appreciate it they were on the same page with one another the entire time yeah I think that was actually kind of like a nice thing to not have to do this time. There's no real moment where it's like, oh, no,

Riggs and Mertag gonna part ways, you know? And even though Riggs clearly, obviously, is constantly pushing Mertat out of his comfort zone and driving him crazy, they're like settling, the way that they're settled into that dynamic as just a fact of them knowing each other. It's like kind of nice, you know?

And even though there's a lot in the movie about like, ah, my wife's going to kill me and ah, the guys at the office. even that stuff was like fun and endearing the freaking condom commercial and just the way that too

without doing a whole bunch there's that idea that Riggs kind of lives with them now like not fully but he is like ingratiated into their home you know

Merta's wife does laundry he gives that great monologue recounting what happened with his wife and the gold pen yeah and the gold pen which was like a beautiful

monologue and a great character moment and something that And the pace of the movie is easy to kind of forget is just a character scene. But, like, I do appreciate that we got some of that. And that was, again, a really beautiful moment. I'm fascinated, too, by the idea of re-contextualizing his wife's murder now instead of accidental death. You know, that's a plot development I'm going to be kind of chewing on because I feel like, especially when you bring back a circumstance like that, it's kind of like, it reminded me of Spider-Man 3.

with the whole like, actually it was me who killed Uncle Ben, yeah and you know I think the good thing with this version of a choice like that is that we didn't have an idea strong association with who did it the first time you know just that it happened

so it's a little easier to swallow that but I was not expecting him to be like hey you know back before the first movie when you were just a freaking you know vice cop or whatever Long Beach yeah Long Beach shows me you know just a little extra stank on it just you know tad insult to injury yeah i killed your wife i almost wonder if that was some kind of note from later of like this lady he met from the

consulate is not enough for him to get like so bent out of shape that he's got to go on the warpath so could we maybe make this a little bit more person yeah you know being racist isn't spicy enough we got to add some personal trauma yeah yeah we got to give him that like all right all bets are off i am just like full on locked into this now you know you can disengaged from just the general quality of apartheid racism but when it's your wife then then it is real

now it's personal I mean I go all in no rubber baby not to say like you know he's certainly the second he finds out who they are he's pretty much like I'm just intent on needling these guys as much possible so big respect but yeah like it's an interesting I guess the one detail that I was expecting

the least and I'm chewing on the most right now is that retcon choice of yeah but not that it's even like in a bad way i'm just like huh interesting it doesn't yeah it doesn't as far as like the overall plot in his character doesn't change much but it is an interesting little addition to you know add some personal stakes of the film it also makes me wonder what coy was talking coy said like this is almost his favorite except for if they had done what they originally wanted to do and now i'm like what they originally wanted to do yeah yeah because this feels just so specific yeah you know and especially to choose like

your enemies are a bunch of South African diplomat you know yeah they're diplomats and some other word that I am alluded by now but yeah

and then you know they're just involved with money laundering and drugs and like it's just so specific and then you do at least get these little nods to again apartheid in South Africa you know

colonial sort of woes coming out of South Africa and the racism like yeah wasn't he like an ambassador yeah there you go yeah yeah ambassadors and diplomats and whatnot uh and yeah just like the acknowledging that you know is an interesting thing because i'm sure that there were probably a lot of people you know protesting that as well during this point in time but you know this definitely just feels like a choice that a movie today wouldn't necessarily make you know or would get like studio noted into the ground for making whereas here it's just sort of like apartheid's happening

and it sucks and we're going to fight these guys and Danny Glover is going to get that whole scene with him in the bank was wild too. Yeah. Where he comes in and that dude's just like flabbergasted and he's like, no God please don't go to South Africa. What are you doing it here? Please get out of here. You know

just like so bold-faced. I had no idea. It was like that in South Africa. Yeah. Just, oh yeah, yeah. I learned something new today. Yeah, apartheid. Oh, bad, bad news. I'm not the person to give you the full historical rundown on that. But as a piece of context and in the tradition of something of Robert Rodriguez was talking about when he made machete,

because machete has like a bunch of, has a clear sort of like point of view politically, I suppose you would say. Because, you know, at least according to him, not every, you know, old schlocky, you know, B movie, but a lot of them would like, you know, while we're here, we're going to throw it. message about something because why not you know like these movies are trying to be about something even if they are like ridiculous and silly and all sorts of other things so like i do appreciate that yeah this movie that is about bombastic action first and foremost and about this odd couple buddy cop duo is also just stopping by to be like hey shitty international situations happening uh this is a fascinating yeah it's and it's a way to it's weird because something like that

could date a movie but i think in the case like this like this it does pinpoint it in a time and place, but it also is like a timeless enough concept that I think it kind of also manages not to get fully pinned down by that in a interesting way. Yeah, they do a good job of making it part of the movie without making it bogged down

by trying to make it about something that removes it from the genre, while still addressing it in a way that they can find justice within the context of the story that they have set up here. It's like they bit off the right amount. to chew, and then, you know, and then they chewed it. They chewed it and they spat it out.

And then they pulled the pin out on purpose before they threw it. All right. Let's get into some patron questions. Jaden Rhodes. This is one of my favorite action movie sequels. Thank you for chiming in on it. The chemistry between our leads is what makes these movies, in my opinion. And I wholly agree.

That's the whole trouble about contemplating how you could redo lethal weapon is sort of like it's it's danny glover mel gibson and whoever else sticks around after part two you know i'm sure that that make the magic of what this is yeah how do you create something like that that sort of magic yeah but i'm but i'm curious do you all agree that it's one of the better action movie sequels or is there another franchise that you all think might have done it better i actually think the diehard series is up there for me oh boy that's a tricky one um i think this is definitely an example of an incredibly strong one to

two, you know, first installment to sequel jump. Uh, if for me I saw, it's been a while since I've seen them, but I saw all the diehards in a single day. And I will say that I like diehard two and three. I think diehard one is, is like

kind of head and shoulders the best one of the diehards. Uh, I would say, I mean, for me, uh, I love the jump between House of Thousand Corpses and the devil's rejects, you know, very different kind of movie from this, and two very different kinds of movies from each other.

But that is certainly, and I think a lot of people would agree that you're leveling up there, even though I'm a big corpses fan, but do any come to mind for you? Rush hour, maybe? Rush hour is great. Rush hour two. I love Rush hour two. Yeah, Rush Hour two is fantastic. And Shanghai

Knights, for that matter, on the Jackie Chan train, I think, is a really strong sequel too. I really enjoy. Are we just talking from one to two or like a sequel, just being better than his predecessor i'll allow anything honestly okay because i'm like yeah there comes a point where the fast movies get really good yeah like think like five through seven like they up the ante uh what was another one i was that oh the john wicks get progressively better i would say uh i mean yeah i think one and four are my favorite wicks um i would say i mean if you want to go

born i think the born movies improve on it on themselves oh can't wait to watch those uh yeah absolutely um i was gonna say it's not an action franchise solely but aliens certainly uh you know levels up the action movie you know for that captain america one to two sure that's not a bad not a bad call at all um let's see pulled up some other sequels here i'm trying to think because yeah it's a tricky game and i certainly there are a lot of franchise out there like Mission Impossible has had, you know, some leveling up across its lifespan, certainly.

Definitely. Also, yeah, I hear the rain now. Yeah. Yeah. It's coming down. It's funny. When we started this review a couple of minutes ago, there wasn't any there. And now it's, yeah, it's pounding again. I really want to see crank. People seem to really have fun with the crank movies.

Oh, my God. Goodness. I want to watch Beverly Hills Cop 2. Dude, let's continue that franchise. We watched one four. Yeah, didn't we? All right. I was going to see. I've never seen Desperado or El Marriachi. It's been way too long.

It's been Indiana Jones. I'd love to do watches of those. I mean, I was on team part three being the best one for a long time. Terminator 2. Terminator 2 leveling up definitely from 1 to 2. Mission Impossible 3 is hands down. One of the best sequels ever made. Top Gun Maverick was made like a billion years later,

but I would say that certainly is a great sequel. Mad Max into Road Warrior. Does Top Guns Action movie? Yeah. I would say so. Okay. I would say, yeah. I mean, it's a specific avenue of action, but yeah, I would count that.

I mean, the Mad Max is, obviously people think of Fury Road now, but yeah, I mean, Road Warrior is great, I thought. Anyway, I think most people love Road Warrior. Okay. I've never seen the expendables. We'd love to watch those movies. I've seen some expendables. I can't remember which ones I've seen now.

I've seen some of the expendables. It's been so long since I've seen Taken was taken to. good I don't I don't think it is well regarded oh I'm gonna go out on a limb I feel like taken to I have seen pulled as an example for like there's like a shot of Liam Neeson climbing over a fence that has like so many cuts in it that it's like kind of ridiculous raid two is sick raid to raid two is a crazy jump uh hellboy two if you want to count that I think is pretty great um and I think I prefer to hellboy one yet creed especially like Creed 2 pretty great um yeah there there's some good action sequels out there man it's tricky

it's hard uh you know i suppose goodness yeah i don't know i'm sure you guys will enlighten us with some more and too like super cop and super cop two or things like that you know or police story police story too um yeah yeah erika got to be a lot good ones out there but uh leave us what yours would be and uh you know maybe we'll have better answers next time this episode is brought to you by prize picks the app that finally let me crash my wife's fantasy sports click yes i used to overhear her and her friends bonding while i sat in the corner where my arms folded come to my home and i can't be included trying to pretend like yeah i know what yards after catch means it's felt left out man and then i discovered prize picks so here's the deal it's

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characters that you follow in lethal weapon four there are five main characters that we follow Jesus. Just curious. Is there any film franchise right now that you could see that could benefit from adding more characters to the main cast? The fast franchise. Yes, two few characters. Boy, howdy. What franchise could stand with widening out its ensemble?

Because it's, I don't know. I feel like that's kind of a tougher question because it's really not about the size. of the cast but how they're utilized and what's their role within the story that makes it because you don't want just crowding a cast for the sake of crowding a cast but I don't know that's a toughie. Adding more

characters to the main cast oh that's a tricky one because I mean yeah there's certain movies like you know there's certain ensemble franchises like your oceans or your knives outs or whatever where the whole point is like oh we're going to add more or new people

golly that's so that is such a good that's a good question that's a really tough question um what's rounding out cast good the one of the things that came to mind because i know that they were kind of expanding out the john wick universe so i think it's semi common common knowledge now that they can do a john wick five so if you like utilized wick and then some of the other people they've established in those that universe and maybe whited out with some other big names that could be really dope yeah um i think the um bob Dylan biopic could have used more leads more more different leads um oh dune dune would be fun to see more people and i mean it doesn't need it but it's going to have more people and i'm excited for that you know i'm excited for whoever gets

pulled in to this universe um i think it's hard but don't really have any franchises akin to a a buddy top big one right now I mean I know they're making Jumanji 4 and it's going to be the last one you could add more people to that um god that's so hard that is so

so hard uh yeah I'm not sure quite how to answer the question honestly make a Blade Runner 3 have a big old cast yes yeah buried two with more characters in the coffin with Ryan

Reynolds I would say Beautiful boy too With more fathers The mummy The mummy with Brandon Fraser Is getting another sequel So maybe we can have more people

In that movie Let's see Zoolander 3 Was more Zoolander with more people Yeah okay We knew a Tropic Thunder 2 With even more people

Let's see I mean the Avengers Already have this on luck Because I was always adding more people They're killing it there I mean expendables Anchorman

stuff like that this is the most engaging part of this review I will okay you know what I want I want yeah get us somewhere and I've said it I've said it with Andrew

so a lot of people give Ryan Johnson shit for the last Jedi which I like it's been a minute since I've watched it I remember liking it if he did a Star Wars who'd done it

that would be really cool that would be very cool that'd be very cool that'd be very cool The Iron Claw 2 The more Iron Claw Okay, I think that

Yeah, let's see Buried should have more actors Castaway should have had more actors The film Locke with Tom Hardy should have had more actors Life of Pie Definitely should have more actors The Shallows I think

Moon with Sam Rockwell More actors 117 hours Should have have more actors The Martian with Mad Damon More actors Yeah I am legend Will Smith

More actors Never can get enough We'll get him And Michael B Jordan though So they already answered that question Yeah that'll be pretty soon Yeah this is a great question I'm not honestly sure

What a good answer to it is But I really would love to hear your guys takes on it You know And I'll see if I can come up with anything When there's not the hot lights and the camera on Yeah and also I feel like us seeing the progression of the franchise us getting to leave a weapon for we might have a better idea of kind of what you're not what you're talking about but more so like what that would look like expanding a cast to have more characters which could then give us some some ideas as to what other franchises could do the same yeah part of me is like what franchise is more characters yeah because you normally don't don't associate it more with you know higher quality bigger is better well bigger is bigger is bigger yeah

It usually is. Nobody? Like, I'm not sure. It's something alien, but they always have an ensemble. This is a great question, though. Like,

it's a humdinger, but leave us your thoughts. And if anything strikes me before this video comes out, I'll throw in an insert. All right, Jay Rushden. Question,

what line was funniest? For me, it was licensed, well, it's just been revoked. What was that? Is this diplomatic immunity? At the very end,

that's a hard one to beat. He said, I'm doing the bathroom. Oh, in the... What was yours? What's yours? What's yours? I think mine was the one that was not intentionally funny.

It's not a woman. It's a ship. It's a ship. It's a really funny. Just the way he says it. Yeah, yeah. Just the... I love that too.

We're back. We're bad here. Black. I'm mad. Let's go. I thought that was really funny. And two, just Leo gets just... Okay, okay, okay.

Okay. Yeah, yeah. Like his whole vibe. but I thought it was really fun. And we got one too old for the shit. Decaffernated was wild. We did get one, did we? We did get one. Yeah, we did get one.

In the beginning? No, it was toward the end. When he sent him down the zip line or the rope, you know, down into the, you know, dock of the big loading crate station thing. But yeah. And I don't know, just that whole scene where Danny Glover is going off. nailed them both yeah that's right one he got the nail gun out there uh yeah there was a lot of really good fun lines in this and it's interesting because yeah this wasn't a shame black script

but this still had a lot of uh you know fun dialogue and a lot of clever repartee as they was saying yeah i love to like the scene where they were trying to decide if they're going to go on three or after three yeah yeah i'm leo gets and whenever you want leo gets oh yeah yeah this is a good this is a good movie for for cool ass quotes and whatnot but uh leave us yours down below would love to hear what they are let's see if there's any trivia on this movie just before we hit the rodeo uh golly though this was a blast man this was yeah the action was really cool uh the cinematography especially all those like diopter shots and the way they really use la and they use the coast and they use all their stuff and the music all the sacks all the guitars all the like little south

African percussive flourishes that they threw in. Yeah, just like so much fun, so much style. And even though this was much more to the point with its plotting and much more sort of like, yeah, we know who these guys are and now we're on the mission. I still felt like they got some good personal moments. If anything, I was a little maybe taken aback that Riggs was so invested in, what was her name, Rinka or whatever, Rika. I was like, you guys just met.

This man is torn up over you. I thought he was torn up about his wife, but I guess he's over it. But yeah, let's see. During production, Richard Donner was shocked when Mel Gibson confided that he was drinking five pines of beer for breakfast. Despite his alcohol problems, Gibson was known

for his professionalism and punctuality. Wow. The scene where Mel Gibson attaches cables to the stilts of a mountaintop house and pulls it down cost over $500,000. Fascinating. Okay, Leo's, okay, okay, okay, Stick was based on Disneyland employees, giving directions to guests at Fantasyland.

Originally, Leo was going to be an oily, effeminate character, but Joe Pesci didn't want to play him that way. He pitched the idea of making Leo and all too eager to please, making Leo, all too eager to please, complete with, okay, okay, okay, ad libs to Richard Donner. Donner laughed and said, do that, do that. The phrase is referred to in home alone by having the catchphrase, okay plumbing, painted on the van driven by Joe Pesci's

character. Not bad. On the side of Riggs refrigerator is the U.S. Army military police school diploma. That's fun. Let's see. During the scene where Martin Riggs is talking about his golden pen and is making one is presumably a pot of

chili, he can be seen crushing Oreo cookies into the pot. Later in the movie, Riggs asks Rika if she likes her chili with or without crushed Oreos. I thought it was joking. that is bongs dude that is so wild and this I think maybe

what coy was talking about according to Richard Donner's commentary for the film although they rejected Shane Black's original draft of the script mostly because of the ending where Riggs dies they still filmed the ending of the movie in a way that they could edit it in two different versions

of it Riggs dying or Riggs surviving after a good response from the audience during the test screening of the movie it was decided to keep Riggs alive the last shot of the movie showing Riggs on the ground and Mertah holding him while camera moves away from the scene into the air showing the sunrise was actually meant to be used in the ending where Riggs dies, which is why both he and Mertal don't move during the shot. So in a way, the movie does end with Riggs dying from his wounds. Michael Kamen's track, Riggs Dying, and Eric Clapton's cover of the song, knocking on Heaven's

door, were composed and meant to be used only in the Riggs Dyes ending. So George Harrison's cover uh song cheer down was used for the ending credits once riggs the riggs lives ending was chosen for the final version of the film that that's a mouthful but jesus that would be a whole different vibe to end on no sequels after that because that's the thing is these are fun but they definitely have like you know a body count and there is a certain like they each get to a place eventually where you're like no the gloves are off and this is serious like you know there's at least a bit of dramatic heft here and i feel like in in a movie with this kind of of balance if he were to die that would leave you off with a much more dramatic feeling at the end yeah

real heavy just like already died credits roll them and in a way i could imagine why and how that could be a fitting end for this franchise well for for these two movies uh but as a franchise i mean yeah fascinating it makes me curious to see what three and four are like and if it was worth continuing i know people genuinely generally have uh you know a good opinion a good you know view on this movie or those movies i feel like are generally positively received if not as well as these first two but uh apparently this is the only lethal weapon movie where merta shoots and kills the final villain in the series uh that's a little bit spoilery but that's fine um i guess you go get some killing done and some later sequels maybe but uh but yeah man oh my god and when the uh south african killer awaits uh waiter

gets out of the pool knock atomi plaza from diehard can be seen in the background oh no way Joel Silver produced both pictures. Jack McGee ad-libbed his line about the condom commercial during rehearsals. The cast and crew liked it so much, it was kept in the film. Nice. That's wild. And to fight the film's anti-South African stance,

it was passed uncut by South African censors and became a major financial success in that country. That's nuts. Patsy Kensett described her sex scene with Mel Gibson as having been very uncomfortable to act out. She stated the reason that she was, and Gibson were both married and both Catholics. Oh, wow.

Fascinating. The bomb and the toilet sequence was used as an early teaser trailer for the movie. The trailer ended with the toilet landing on Murta's car and the voiceover saying, they're not taking any more crap. Love that. Love that.

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