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| Cicakman 2 – Planet Hitam | TarsTarkas.NET Posted: 29 Jan 2012 11:44 PM PST
The overall setting is far less grand. Metrofulus looks less like the city of fantasy and Libertarian excess it was in the original film and looks more like Kuala Lumpur. This probably helped budget-wise, without the added pressure to dress up the city, they were freer to spend the money on other things like action set pieces. Though I thought some of the culture of Metrofulus was some of the more interesting parts of the original, I am glad they set themselves free to do more things. Saiful Apek is far less annoying as Hairi/Cicak Man this time around. I don't know if he's supposed to be acting more mature now that his friend had died, or that Apek realized that if he toned it down a few notches the film would be much more palatable for overseas audiences. In any event, it is a welcome change, and helps push Cicakman 2 far beyond its predecessor in enjoyability, the one factor that really matters. The fact we aren't stuck with filling much of the running time with an origin story helps put the plot on a more traditional arc. No new ground is broken in the super hero genre, but that genre is so saturated at the moment that you have to work very hard indeed to go somewhere that hasn't been gone before. Cicakman instead is trying to take familiar elements and make them Malaysian. Hairi's life seems much more relatable now than when he was a wacky scientist in the original, with the struggling to find a job and family responsibilities. Remember, cicak=gecko, and hitam=black, so the flick is Geckoman 2 – Planet Black. Now you are an expert in Malaysian.
Tania is back as well, and her sworn hatred of Cicak Man at the end of the original film has turned to curiosity over who he truly is. She now works for Fulus News as a reporter. Not a very good reporter, much is shown of her fumbling around on air. We have a new female in the mix, a villainess named Rrama that looks like Catwoman – except she's a butterfly, see! She has wings that show up once or twice. Rrama is a killer, but not a stone cold killer, she's red hot as she enjoys it so much. Killing is an art to her, she performs her slaughters as though painting a masterpiece on canvas. She views killing Cicak Man as the ultimate art piece that she's determined to finish. Professor Klon proceeds with his black water plan, turning the water of the city black. Then he goes on TV and declares the President of Metrofulus poisoned the water so they could jack up the price, and he's going to counter with the water purifier to stop them. But he first needs the people to overthrow the government. The people are like "Sure!" How low are the President of Metrofulus's approval ratings that people will join up with a supervillain? I'd complain about this more, but here in America we have many supervillains in elected positions, so it's not that far fetched. The president resigns amid the protests and chaos, and Professor Klon shows up in a huge tank dressed like a low-rent Iron Man. He announces water purifiers have been given to leading businessmen to be sold to the public, then drives off in his tank. Cicak Man hitches a ride and finds the hidden base. But Cicak Man himself is tracked by Rrama, who's secret identity is Amarr the cameralady for Tania. As Amarr is played by a different hot actress (Linda Onn), we see her rip off her face Mission Impossible style to reveal Rrama underneath. Thanks to the power of his tongue, he goes from losing to winning. He demands she take him to Klon, but she says that was the idea and everything is a trap. Iron Man Klon is happy to see Cicak Man, because they have Iman held hostage over latex – which is also the weakness of Cicak Man (Wait a minute…) This leads to a battle with Klon and Rrama as Iman is slowly lowered into the latex and as the timer to release the black poison into the world's water supply ticks down. Cicak Man saves the day by stopping the countdown and defeating Rrama once and for all. But Iman is still in danger as Professor Klon becomes the new end level boss with rocket boots and super strength. Cicak Man going down for the count…when the ghost gingers arrive, mad at Klon because he killed them! Finally, the Ghostbusters not being around is useful, as these ghosts stop Klon and let Cicak Man save Iman. And Tania was there, filming the whole thing for the news, so now everyone knows Professor Klon was evil – even though they already knew that from last time.   Cicak Man 2 is a marked improvement over the original. The story is more comic book villain, but seems more dangerous and personal. The characters are less annoying, and Rrama adds a sense of exciting danger that the Gingers never seemed to have.   Rated 7/10 (butterfly dart, supermodel teacher, the President, camerawoman fakeout, tracker, don't walk stand still, the longest don't walk countdown in history!)
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