In general, this film has long been attributed to the sequel "Robot Jox" ("Robot Jox"), which is understandable because it was produced at the studio "Full Moon" and has a similar theme about the future with the battles of huge machines. However, apart from the slogan "First There Was ROBOT JOX..." translated as "Robot Jox..." there are no connections.
The kinship comes from the technical side of the production, where all the emphasis is on the spectacular (adjusted for inexpensive b-movie) duel of mechanical creatures controlled by people. The rest only brightens up the prepared, somehow bringing the plot to the climax. The story is typical of American fantasy action films about postatomics. These are dangerous desert expanses inhabited by unfriendly semi-savage groups, among which Mega-robot 2 makes tourist routes in design resembling the makings of a scorpion. A pilot working for the Corporation, a kind of shirt-boyfriend, his fellow mechanic will be a humorous nerd, one of the passengers is looking for various secrets of robotics, part-time, being a blonde beauty who should be saved from trouble for the sake of verbal flirting skirmishes and kissing at sunset. The car is kidnapped by an enemy who threatens to sow new disasters on the already depressing soil.
All this demonstrates an entertaining adventure story, equipped with shootouts on lasers, confrontation with an insidious villain, destruction of various models of buildings and military futuristic equipment, with a couple of jokes. By the way, for avid “midnighters” who love the brainchild of this studio, you can see great self-irony when the movie theater of the future hangs the title to the movie “Lord of the Dolls 54”, which makes fun of the eponymous simply endless franchise.
The technical side of the picture consists of puppet dummies of combat machines, animated by frame-by-frame animation. Attention to their appearance on the screen is given enough to fascinate the spectacle, but leave room for acquaintance with the heroes and vicissitudes of the situation. Timekeeping is a little more than an hour, so there are no sagging moments.
As a result, I think that modern sophisticated viewers who have the opportunity to compare with the current large-scale popular Hollywood blockbusters about robots and various disaster films, reliably drawn on computers, will already take the viewing extremely cool, if they manage to refrain from laughing at the sight of clumsy warriors made of iron. But lovers of old, somewhat naive fantastic tapes should get a certain pleasure, at least showing respect to the painstaking work of puppeteers, breathing life into the layouts of thousands of shot successive frames. Personally, I have long kept this movie in my collection, as part of early childhood memories, when the screen is still a young actress Barbara Crampton (Barbara Crampton), and when I was sincerely admired by the apogee with the appearance of the last hope of positive heroes in the form of a humanoid dusty Mega-robot 1. Therefore, with great pleasure I watched the film again, and I introduced you to its components.
6 out of 10