Director: Anton Leader
Year: 1964
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Evil Kids
Plot:
Convinced there are more children out in the world, a UN study finds the other remaining children and brings them to a secure church in London for study, only for the continued misuse of their powers to force the world to rid itself of the devious children.
Review:
This one turned out to be quite enjoyable, if only slightly flawed overall here. What really stands out here is the film's rather enjoyable and exciting action scenes that are wisely kept to a few needed spurts rather than placed throughout the film as a whole. The race around downtown London and on through the different back-alleys and side-streets looking for the children while she's in turn followed by the agents that leads into their church hideout makes for a fine time, as does the different attempts to barnstorm the church and try to appeal to them, which is quite a fine series of actions here with the attempts broken up by having the children forcibly bringing the intruders to harm themselves, stopping them with the implementation of a loud, boisterous weapon and finally by talking in vague threats about what's going to happen to intruders in the future.
The finale attempt to see what to do with them makes for quite a fun time here with this one really getting the action out here in regards to the military utilizing their weaponry here in grand order and launching a full-scale attack against them in a flurry of explosions, shelling and gunfire that culminates in the deadly bombing that brings the church down in quite a spectacular manner here for a thrilling finale and one of the films' best scenes overall.
This, though, is really all that works here, as this one does have a few small flaws with it. Much like the original, this one seems quite uncomfortable with blatantly exclaiming how the children came about, as this one provides no explanation whatsoever for what happened to bring these children along, why those events were completely ignored after what happened previously since this one is decidedly concerned with continuity as this manages to take place in that same universe quite distinctly, so being able to skirt around the issue as clumsily as done so here is a big distraction.
As well, the big issue of how the different nationalities are represented here seems to contradict the first one, where whole villages were targeted, so this one-from-around-the-world makes no sense. Likewise, the finale here with the continuous arguing about the children's importance in helping the nations of the world destroy each other is never really tied into this one or why it should mean anything other than being completely ignored by everyone which in turn forces the children into action every time out, and to continually force the issue each encounter makes them simply asking for their consequences more than anything else. This here is really the main thing holding this one down as it is.
Overview: ***.5/5
An enjoyable sequel but not as demented as the first, there are some likable factors here that make it a fun time, even though it's let down by a series of flaws that are enough to lower this one overall. Those with an appreciation for this kind of genre fare or who are intrigued by it from the original will have a lot to like, while those turned off by its issues will want to heed caution.
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