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1976 Certificate PG
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It’s been several years since the Westworld amusement park massacre, when a group of robotic cowboys got their wires crossed and decided to start slaughtering tourists. The Delos Corporation have since learnt from their mistakes and decided to open up a brand new amusement park. Futureworld is beyond your wildest .. Read more

Starring Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Yul Brynner, Arthur Hill
Director Richard T. Heffron
Genres Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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Futureworld

It’s been several years since the Westworld amusement park massacre, when a group of robotic cowboys got their wires crossed and decided to start slaughtering tourists. The Delos Corporation have since learnt from their mistakes and decided to open up a brand new amusement park. Futureworld is beyond your wildest imagination, where fun and pleasure are available at the touch of a button.

Investigative reporters Chuck Browning (Peter Fonda: Easy Rider, The Wild Angels, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry) and Tracy Ballard (Blythe Danner: Meet The Parents, Brighton Beach Memoirs) aren’t so sure about The Delos Corporation’s apparent makeover. Intent on discovering the truth, Chuck and Tracy’s journalistic prowess uncovers a sinister plot being hatched within the secret, underground command centre. A plot that involves nocturnal examinations, stolen genetics, psychopathic clones, missing guests, world domination and the appearance of a very familiar gunslinger. But can Chuck and Tracy escape the deadly confines of Futureworld? Can society be saved from The Delos Corporation’s evil plan, or is it too late already?

Starring Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Yul Brynner, Arthur Hill, Stuart Margolin, John P. Ryan
Director Richard T. Heffron
Studio Optimum
Run time DVD: 1 hr 43 mins
Certificate Certificate PG
Genres Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 02 Jul 2004
Production year: 1976
Format DVD

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  • Set in 1985, this sequel to the pithy Westworld is all gloss and no substance. Westworld's vast pleasure centre, where... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008
  • 1 stars out of 4

    Amusing and fairly suspenseful fantasy with a bigger budget than its predecessor.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Laughably bad...

    An abysmal film presumably knocked out so as to cash in off the back of its very enjoyable forerunner ?Westworld?. That film was written and directed by Michael Crichton (well known sci-fi author and ?Jurassic Park? scribe) ? and Crichton?s lack of involvement with ?Futureworld? should rightly inspire portentous foreboding within a viewer.

    The action takes place within the confines of robot-populated theme park segregated into zones or ?worlds? (a la ?the Crystal Maze?). There?s ?Medieval World?, ?Roman World? and (?but of course?) ?Future World? to name three.

    In the movie ?Westworld? a robot goes dangerously crazy, taking out patrons of the theme park. It?s a ludicrous but enjoyable idea. ?Futureworld?s? angle, on the other hand, is just ludicrous. Suffice to say it involves replacing prominent world movers-and-shakers (who just happen to be guests at the theme park) with facsimile robots of themselves.

    There are a couple of nice touches, it has to be said. A boxing match in which Fonda and Danner don gloves and control ?robotic? boxers seems oddly prescient given the state of modern day video games and bearing in mind this film pretty much pre-dates Space Invaders. Likewise a game of chess involving animated moving pieces must have been seen by George Lucas. The same idea reoccurs, verbatim, in ?Star Wars?.

    But maybe that?s the problem with the film - its best ideas have been done much better since. Though I suspect it looked pretty bad when it came out in 1976.

    It?s billed as ?starring? Yul Brynner (as ?the Gunslinger?). In fact he appears for about a minute in a laughably bad dream sequence seemingly crowbar-ed in solely so as to get his name on to the credits. The fact that Brynner appears larger than life on the sleeve of this movie is tantamount to a breach of the trades description act.

    Fonda?s over-sized spectacles are also ridiculous.

    On the whole this film is to be avoided. Oh, and Blythe Danner, the female lead, is Gwyneth Paltrow?s mum, by the way.

      • Daniel Fox from Manchester, UK
      • Posted 28 Mar 2004 unknown

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  • 0 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    Not a good sequel to Westworld

    This was not a patch on Westworld but it still passed the time. It did not have the action that Westworld had and I missed Yul Bryner. And it seemed more dated.

      • A customer from Worthing, England
      • Posted 19 Mar 2005 23:37

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