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RoboCop 2 is a satirical science fiction film, released in 1990 and set in the near future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan. It is the sequel to the 1987 film RoboCop
. The title character is played by Peter Weller, who also played RoboCop in the first film. However, although a second sequel and a television series were made, this was the last time Weller played the role, due to complaints of how cumbersome and exhausting it was to wear the suit and also due to the fact that Weller found Robocop 2 to be a very negative and disappointing film to work on (his co-star, Nancy Allen, had similar negative feelings regarding the second film).

Despite not being directed by Paul Verhoeven, the director of the first film, RoboCop 2 contains many of his hallmarks, such as satirical television commercials (such as for an ultra powerful sunblock to deal with the devastation of Earth's ozone layer) and upbeat news broadcasts. These can be seen in the original RoboCop and his later film Starship Troopers. The events in the second film closely follow the events in the first film (the ED-209 unit, for example, is mentioned as being deployed and malfunctioning). However, viewers may be confused by the fact that many of the major plot lines in the second film were not of any concern to any of the characters in both films, although they must have been known to those characters.

RoboCop 2 was directed by Irvin Kershner from a script by Frank Miller and Walon Green. Miller's original script, deemed "unfilmable" by producers, was later turned into a nine-part comic book series called "Frank Miller's RoboCop".

RoboCop 2 was followed by its own sequel, RoboCop 3
.

Taglines:

He's back to protect the innocents.
Even in the future of law enforcement there is room for improvement.

Plot

The main plot of RoboCop 2 is the title character's struggle to regain the humanity that many characters in the film felt he lost when he was turned into RoboCop (a cyborg combining the brain and other tissue from the corpse of a murdered police officer, Alex Murphy, with a robotic body) in the first film. Indeed, that motif drove most of the events of the first film, and is a widely used theme (comprising the main theme of, inter alia, Pinocchio, Frankenstein, the Tin Man character in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Edward Scissorhands
and the character Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation). However, in contrast to the dominant main plot of the first film, the story in RoboCop 2 is mainly driven by a number of sub-plots.

One sub-plot, introduced at the beginning of the movie, concerns the consequences of RoboCop's realization of his former identity, and his impotent attempt to reach out to his family. Having found out where they moved after he was killed, he merely drives by their house day after day, greatly distressing his former wife. She eventually complains to OCP, and they allow her to see him; beforehand, the new executive in charge of the RoboCop project insistently reminds the officer that he could never have his life back as Alex Murphy, and that he is RoboCop, Law Enforcement Unit. Seeing his wife, he tells her that the face he has made in honor of Murphy's death, and that he is just a machine. Though impassive in the face of her sadness and confusion, he intently watches as she leaves his life, forever.

The overarching plot of the movie concerns the attempt by Omni Consumer Products (OCP) to contrive the default of the debt of the old City of Detroit. It plans to foreclose, take over the city government, demolish the old city, and put up a planned community, Delta City, in its place. The replacement of government with corporate control that OCP espouses (arguing that "anybody can own a share. What could be more democratic?") can be considered a type of market populism. As part of this plan, it has forced a police strike by putting an end to the police pension plan. As RoboCop cannot go on strike, this merely increases his police duties as the city sinks further into anarchy and terror.

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