While the Paul Verhoeven movie in 1987 was infinitely better, I disagree with what most of the critics say about "RoboCop 2." It was not great cinema by any stretch of the imagination, but it was a fun little movie with an entertaining plot, even if it did not relate to its prequal. The acting was good, and I was fond of the fact that one of the main bad guys in the movie was a little kid. This brings the question of ethics- should RoboCop fight the youth of America or not, thus violating his program...
I will recomend this movie, especially if you haven't seen the first one (get the first one after seeing this one...)

This is a awesome sequal i guarantee its just the 1 arselicker writing the same faklse reviews.Robocop 2 is just as good as the original voilent,gore,swearing and non stop action with cold harted criminals.Yes this movie is much more extreme than the original Robocop and is not the the weak of heart go and play with nanna if you carn`t handle this movies supreme excellence.Yeah this is brilliant and lousey punks can say what they want this RULES.

Whenever I am asked what's the stupidest movie I've ever seen I quickly say Robocop2. I tell them that after I watched it I thought my life would have been better if I had sat on this couch for 2 hours doing nothing. However, I had gotten so much enjoyment telling everyone how bad this movie is maybe I am glad now I've watched it. This is a difficult question. The movie is not funny bad, it's stupid bad. There was not one time I laughed because it was so bad, it's not that kind of bad, it's just dumb and idiotic. It's weird the people in film could produce such worthless trash, I would think they would mostly have better judgment? Hmmm, so this movie has made me think a lot... In the end though, one thing is certain, this is the worst, stupidest, movie I have ever seen

What's wrong with Robocop 2? Everything. In their attempt to reproduce the success of the $10 million 1987 sleeper hit producers threw $100 million dollars at Director Paul Verhoven, and told him to do it again. Well that would be hard to do without one essential piece: The two original screenwriters. But since those executives perceived Robocop as just a "comic book" movie they hired a "hot" comic book writer Frank Miller to write the screenplay.
Frank Miller killed the Robocop Franchise with Robocop 2. His horrible screenplay proves that comic book writers know nothing about the medium of film and should stick to 2-D images. He just doesn't understand the depth and complexity of the Robocop fantasy world. The violence in the first Robocop was making a comment about the state of society. The "fake ads" poke fun at the state of society and how we commercialize things that hurt us.
The three stories don't come together to make a complete movie this time like in the first movie. Each seems lost. The first story about OCP trying to replicate the success of the Robocop program just doesn't work here. They need to create an army of Robos to clean up old Detroit so they can build New Detroit. Unfortunately they have no success. The second story is a lame attempt to make a comment on the War on Drugs. Robocop is hot on the trail of Cain a drug lord producing Nuke, a highly addictive substance similar to crack. Robo eventually busts Cain and puts him in a coma. So what do the OCP executives do? They turn the drug lord into Robocop 2, a robot they send out to kill the mayor in their plans to overthrow Old Detroit and build New Detroit. That makes sense to you? Not to me. The final sequence of this movie falls completely apart as Robocop does things that are so stupid you will shake your head. High impact bullets and power tools damage Robocop but a fall off the top of a 100-story building doesn't harm him. In the first movie we knew the Cobra assault cannon was dangerous. It blew ED-209 to bits. But in this movie Robocop 2 isn't scratched with a shot from it. However, the Robocop's auto-9 can shoot off parts of him.
Peter Weller probably realized how bad this script was during the shooting of this film He isn't as riveting here as he was in the first movie. In the opening scenes where the robot follows his wife he's great but the rest of the film he's uninspired. He simply phones it in hoping it doesn't hurt his career. Nancy Allen has absolutely nothing to work with here. She can't share any of the wonderful chemistry she had with Weller in the first movie because the script downplays her role for more stupid stunts and special effects.
I really wish someone else had been involved in the Robocop sequels. Someone with enough vision to see past the "comic book" action and let us get to know the characters in some riveting human drama. There were some great stories to tell like Murphy facing his wife and son, Lewis' feelings regarding Murphy and Murphy coping with being a machine. Throw in some social commentary, violence and politics and this would have been a great continuation of the Robocop franchise. But alas, we have this movie and the equally banal Roblowcop 3. Stick with the original. It's one of the best sci-fi movies ever made.

Believe me I'm not one of those people who have dismissed a sequel before it's even released. I do love many, many sequel's but the Robocop sequels where major flops to me. Robocop 2 was a big disappointment to me when I first saw it, and the review I gave it as soon as it finished hasn't changed the slightest in the few times I have watched it since. It is a movie that starts off looking very promising, but fails to have the same greatness of the original. And Robocop 3 I would put into my list of worst movie's of all time category with no questions asked. The movie was not thought out and had completely taken the impression that "This could happen in real life" to "This is just an unrealistic comic book made into a movie". The first movie was an action/horror kind of movie and easily rated R. The sequels got tamer as they went along trying to make them into a kid's film. But what I have always wondered about that is, "WHY?" The first movie has an R rating. So kids wouldn't be watching that one, so why bother to make sequels that kids can watch. They ruined what could have been great sequels the same way they ruined the Batman saga, by forgetting who the original audience was and ditching the dark side to lighten it up into a flick for kids as a PG rated movie. Robocop 2 I would give 1 and a half stars to. But that's very generous because I give Robocop 3 no stars.

What MGM should have done with Robocop 2 & 3 is put them on the same disc and sold them that way as one of there MGM Double Feature DVD's. And then retailed them at a very cheap price as 2 for 1 on the same disc, or flip side, whatever, but I would give both movies an extra star for being on the same disc so that it wouldn't take up much room if you just decided to get them just to complete the Robocop collection. Or, maybe when H.D.D.V.D comes out Robocop 1, 2, 3 will be released on the one disc. But when you have 2 movies with no bonus features and aren't great movies, only to die hard Robo fans or people who watch them now `cause it's a reminder for something from there child hood then no one's gonnah buy the 2 sequels individually on purpose. But add both of them together on one disc, and maybe 2 bad movies might sneak into an, "ok, maybe I'll get this" category.