The plot spends much time building up to the main action – it never settles down, while the dual running plot with Cramden finding someone in the department spying on him takes it all over the place. And what humour there is never succeeds in standing out as the various set-pieces in the original did. The one moment that everyone remembers in retrospect, which took on another whole level of irony after Ronald Reagan took office, is the scene where James Coburn shakes his head in disbelief, “An actor playing the President.” All that one ends up with is a film that plays itself as a silly big-budget action-adventure cartoon. The plot is also a derivative rehash of the first film – with a group of idealists on an island paradise trying to conquer the world whose Utopian visions get waylaid by the more ruthless among them and with Flint’s women once again about to be brainwashed.