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"BEVERLY HILLS COP II" (1993) (Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold) (R) Alcohol/ Drugs Blood/Gore Disrespectful/ Bad Attitude Frightening/ Tense Scenes Guns/ Weapons Mild Heavy Heavy Moderate Extreme Imitative Behavior Jump Scenes Music (Scary/Tense) Music (Inappropriate) Profanity Moderate Mild None Mild Extreme Sex/ Nudity Smoking Tense Family Scenes Topics To Talk About Violence Extreme Mild Mild Moderate Extreme QUICK TAKE: Comedy/Action: Beverly Hills' favorite cop returns from Detroit to help his friends bring down the skilled criminals who tried to kill his former police captain. PLOT: Axel Foley (EDDIE MURPHY) is hot on the trail of credit card fraudsters in Detroit when he hears that his former police captain, Andrew Bogomil (RONNY COX) has been gunned down in Los Angeles. After learning that Bogomil was leading the investigation into several very serious crimes, Axel becomes convinced Bogomil was on to something and heads back to California to help his friends on his old force solve the crimes. Leaving his undercover work in Detroit in the less-than-capable hands of his goofy colleague, Detective Jeffrey Friedman (PAUL REISER), much to the chagrin of his boss, Inspector Todd (GIL HILL), Axel rounds up his old partner Rosewood (JUDGE REINHOLD) and Sergeant Taggart (JOHN ASHTON) to finish the job Bogomil started. Facing strong opposition from the new and extremely arrogant police chief, Harold Lutz (ALLEN GARFIELD), the trio follows a trail of clues that leads to some prominent Los Angeles citizens, including the owner of a swanky gun club, Maxwell Dent (JURGEN PROCHNOW). Together with his partners in crime, including lover Karla Fry (BRIGITTE NIELSEN), Dent is running a high-stakes arms trading operation in plain sight and committing dangerous robberies to fund the plan. With a little help from Bogomil's daughter, Jan (ALICE ADAIR), Foley, Rosewood and Taggart uncover the truth and earn accolades from the Mayor, Ted Egan (ROBERT RIDGELY). WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? If they're fans of the first film and/or Eddie Murphy (think "Shrek," "Dr. Doolittle," "The Nutty Professor," "Mulan," and the like) they may want to see this. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R For language and some violence. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: EDDIE MURPHY plays Detective Axel Foley, a fast-talking, quick-thinking cop who doesn't hide the fact that he wasn't always on the right side of the law. Known for his "unconventional" style of police work, Axel often engages in questionable legal behavior to gain access to people or information. His regular antics include lying and stealing, but are typically played for laughs, as Axel has a heart of gold and generally tries to do the right thing. Axel uses frequent profanity, shoots various weapons, and is quite vocal about his penchant for big-breasted women. JUDGE REINHOLD plays Detective Billy Rosewood, Axel's former partner. Young, fresh-faced and a little odd, Billy takes a lot of good-natured ribbing from his friends and a lot of flak from his superiors. In particular, he finds himself the target of regular abuse from the chief of police, who shoots his ideas down at every turn. Billy, a fan of the "Rambo" movies, has an impressive weapons collection that is humorous in the film, but even in jest, his friends all imply he should seek help for his apparent addiction. Billy uses profanity and numerous weapons. JOHN ASHTON plays Sergeant John Taggart, Billy's immediate boss and the third member of Axel's crime-fighting trio. Taggart serves as a sort of conscience for the group, often trying to talk his friends out of whatever mischief they are about to get into. In the end, he joins in to help them despite his misgivings. Taggart has an on-again, off-again relationship with his wife, who we never meet, and while the discussions about his always-impending divorce are always in jest, there is an implication that his attitude towards women may not always be positive. Taggart drinks alcohol, swears and shoots and kills a woman. PAUL REISER plays Detective Jeffrey Friedman, Axel's hapless buddy on the Detroit police force who is constantly begging Axel to let him go undercover with him. When Axel goes to California, he entrusts Friedman to handle his "undercover" work while he's gone. Naturally, things go awry and Friedman lands himself and Axel in hot water with their boss. Friedman uses some profanity. ALLEN GARFIELD plays Los Angeles Police Chief Harold Lutz, a verbally abusive and obnoxious man who lets his ego get in the way of good police work and constantly harasses his staff. His profanity-laden tirades draw the attention of the mayor, who does not approve. GIL HILL plays Inspector Douglas Todd, Axel's boss in Detroit. He bankrolls Axel's crazy schemes to go "deep undercover" and issues constant warnings about Axel's job security if he doesn't start making some arrests. Despite the fact that he's often yelling, and using frequent profanity, we can tell that he actually likes Axel deep down. JURGEN PROCHNOW plays Maxwell Dent, owner of the Beverly Hills Gun Club and other prominent locations that serve as fronts for his dangerous arms-trading operation. He orders people murdered and smokes cigars. BRIGITTE NIELSEN plays Karla Fry, a tall, leggy bombshell who is Dent's lover and the mastermind behind his crime sprees. She uses various weapons and shoots and wounds several people, including Captain Bogomil. She also lies and deceives people to get what she wants. ROBERT RIDGELY plays Los Angeles Mayor Ted Egan. He sticks up for the LAPD staff when Chief Lutz verbally abuses them, and ultimately fires him for his attitude. ALICE ADAIR plays Jan Bogomil, the Captain's daughter. Overcome by grief at her father's wounding, she works to help Axel and his friends uncover information about Dent's business dealings. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? Then read OUR TAKE of this film. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). OUR WORD TO PARENTS: The following is a brief summary of the content found in this comedy/action film that's been rated R. Profanity consists of at least 26 "f" words, while other expletives and colorful phrases are also uttered. Sexually related dialogue and song lyrics are present, as is the sight of various scantly clad women (including some pole dancers who show bare breasts and most of their bare butts in thongs). Violence consists of various people being shot, sometimes with bloody results, and some instances of hand-to-hand fighting (punching, kicking, etc.). Those scenes and other moments of potential peril might be unsettling or suspenseful to some more sensitive viewers (the film is an action comedy), and those scenes and other behavior might be enticing for some kids to imitate. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, and some drinking and smoking occur. If you're still concerned about the film and its appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home who may be interested in seeing it, we suggest that you take a closer look at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE Taggart drinks scotch at a bar. Axel makes up a story, in which someone got drunk and defecated in a swimming pool, to gain access to an exclusive party. BLOOD/GORE Axel makes up a story, in which someone got drunk and defecated in a swimming pool, to gain access to an exclusive party. Karla shoots Captain Bogomil in the chest. We see blood at the wound site. Karla shoots two men during a robbery and we see the blood at their wound sites. Taggart shoots Karla in the chest and we see blood coming from the wound. DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE The various villains all have bad attitudes for their actions and behavior. Karla screams at patrons to get down on the ground in the jewelry store she is robbing. A man yells at a woman to get away from him. Axel tells Detective Friedman he's very close to shooting him (played for laughs). Chief Lutz repeatedly screams at his subordinates, using colorful language. He threatens them with traffic duty or revocation of their badges. Dent tells someone to kill Axel. Chief Lutz calls Axel a degenerate. Axel asks if it's a "black thing." (Played for laughs) FRIGHTENING SCENES Scenes listed under "Violence" might be unsettling and/or suspenseful to some viewers, particularly younger ones and those with low tolerance levels for such material. Karla enters a jewelry store with some henchmen, screams at the patrons inside to get down on the ground, then she and the men shoot the glass cases with guns to scare the patrons and break the glass to get to the jewels. There is a lot of yelling and shooting, and they repeatedly push people back to the ground who have tried to get up. A few shots are fired in people's direction but no one is visibly wounded. A gun battle ensues at Dent's oil business headquarters. Men and women shoot at each other with a variety of guns. A woman is shot and killed but it's played for laughs. GUNS/WEAPONS Both the police and the bad guys use a variety of guns (rifles, pistols, automatic weapons) throughout the movie. The police generally carry pistols, which they wield and use when necessary. Various characters fire guns at the shooting range at the gun club. Axel goes into Billy's bedroom to use the phone and notices he has about six guns of varying sizes hanging in his closet. Billy's love for the "Rambo" movies and his appreciation for large weapons become a running joke among his friends. Axel, Billy and Taggart discover an enormous cache of weapons at Dent's headquarters. These include guns of various sizes, automatic weapons, grenade launchers, and the like. Billy pulls two large rifles from his trunk at Dent's headquarters. Taggart later grabs some of the stolen weapons as they go to fight against Dent's men. Billy finds a grenade launcher and haphazardly follows the instructions on how to use it. In a stroke of incredibly good luck, he hits the truck carrying Dent. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR Phrases: "Get the f*ck out of here!" "You're the f*cking guy with the truckload of cigarettes!" "You bring the f*cking cops! What the f*ck /is wrong with you/is this/ is going on here/ is up?" "I'll f*cking tell you what's bad luck!" "Are you gonna f*ck around?" "The guy's a f*cking clown!" "F*ck you, man!" "Where the f*ck you been?" "I must have been out of my f*cking mind to let you talk me into this sh*t!" "You're making a very big f*cking mistake!" "What are you, a f*ckin' art critic?" "Oh f*ck it," "We almost got f*cked up," "How the f*ck can you steal a house?" "F*ck 'em," "Billy's pretty f*cked up," "F*ck it, let's go," "F*ck - get out of here!" "Oh f*ck!" "Max f*cked it up for all of you," "F*ck Rambo!" "Cut the bullsh*t," "I ain't doin' sh*t with this man!" "All I smell is your bullsh*t," "I'm tired of your bullsh*t," "Sh*t…what am I talkin' about, sh*t in the car, I'm not gonna sh*t in the car!" "Somebody clean some of this sh*t up!" "That guy is a sh*t for brains," "What are you asking me for - I don't know this sh*t!" "I have a friend who was killed by sh*t like this," "Bullsh*t - you stole this house!" "You're gonna get us all in deep sh*t!" "Is that turtle sh*t in there?" "You can't do freaky sh*t in that car," "Sh*t, there goes my medical insurance!" "It takes 60 people to do this sh*t in Detroit!" "Oh sh*t - the alarm team!" "Sh*t, we should have gone left," "Somebody got drunk and sh*t in the pool - I'm here to clean up the sh*t," "Aw sh*t, we're in trouble, G*ddammit!" "You're hangin' out with t*tty woman over there," "Look at the big t*tties! (2x)" "You can be a p*ssy sometimes," "I'm curious to know where his d*ck is - you know where your d*ck is? Do turtles have d*cks?" "Follow your d*ck!" "Big d*cks… (2x)" "You called the G*ddamn FBI! (3x)" "G*ddammit, you can't do this!" "Get me the G*ddamn plans!" "You're still a G*ddamn police officer, for Christ's sake!" "I'm the G*ddamn chief of police!" "He's assigned to some G*ddamn task force…I don't know where the hell he is or what he does, it's a real pain in the ass," "You're damn right it's not!" "What about the G*ddamn cement truck?" "Freeze, G*ddammit!" " I don't give a damn!" "The bitch ain't happy," "Damn, that's a big bitch!" "That's the big bitch!" "You son of a bitch! (2x)" "Get your ass down here now!" "I'm up to my ass!" "Slap him in his bald-ass head for me," "My ass is on the line," "I'm covering my own ass," "I'm gonna fry your ass into dog meat," "I'm gonna have a dog-meat ass!" "Whoever gave you this is an a**hole," "Lutz is gonna fire our asses!" "Get your mad ass in the pool!" "He wants to shake his ass like everyone else," "Who tricked my ass?" "It's a real pain in the ass," "Take your ass home!" "If you'd take your head out of your ass… (2x)" "Kiss my ass!" "Get your ass back here!" "My ass is back already - I gotta catch up!" "How the hell do you call yourself a commanding officer?" "What the hell is wrong with you?" "What the hell you need this for?" "Damn it, Axel, you scared the hell out of me!" "The hell with it!" "What the hell are you doing here? (4x)" "What the hell are you 2 doing here?" "Who the hell is talking to you?" "What the hell do you think you're doing?" and "No, you shut the hell up!" All of the action, stunts and more may be enticing for some kids to imitate. Axel pretends to be other people to gain access to information. JUMP SCENES Karla and her henchmen burst into a jewelry store and command everyone to the ground. There is then a lot of yelling and shooting (both at the glass cases and at the patrons, though no one is visibly wounded). MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) None. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) The movie includes the George Michael song, "I Want Your Sex" (that includes that line). PROFANITY Profanity consists of 26 "f" words, 23 "s" words, 6 uses of a slang term for male genitals ("d*ck"), one use of a slang term for female genitals ("p*ssy"), 3 uses of a slang term for breasts ("t*tties"), 13 hells, 10 uses of "G-damn," 4 uses of "bitch," and 19 uses of "ass." SEX/NUDITY A man introduces Axel to the woman he's sitting with, saying she can "suck a golf ball through 20 yards of garden hose." Axel later refers to her as the "t*tty woman." The camera hones in on the buttocks of a woman walking her dog in some sort of aerobic exercise outfit with leggings and a thong leotard. Axel, watching a movie on TV (not shown), exclaims several times, "Look at those t*tties!" Axel asks Karla how long it takes to shave legs as long as hers, then says he was just offering his personal grooming services. A scene takes place in a strip club. We see women gyrating around poles and men watching them dance. Naked breasts and buttocks are seen, as well as a few shots of bare buttocks in thongs. Axel picks up Billy's pet turtle and inquires about where its genitals are. He asks "I'm curious to know where his d*ck is - you know where your d*ck is? Do turtles have d*cks?" Axel says "I could get blown for $7." A scene takes place at the Playboy Mansion. We see women in white bikinis (showing cleavage and other skin) and men ogling them. Axel makes several references to the size of his genitals, using the word "d*ck". Axel makes a veiled reference to Taggart's genitals. The movie includes the George Michael song, "I Want Your Sex" (that includes that line). SMOKING Several men smoke cigars, including Dent. TENSE FAMILY SCENES Jan sobs at the hospital as she waits for word about whether her father, Captain Bogomil, will survive his gunshot wounds. TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT Stealing. Lying/pretending to be someone else. Guns and other weapons. Helping a friend who has a problem. VIOLENCE A woman and a man use two guns to shoot Captain Bogomil down in the street. Karla enters a jewelry store with some henchmen, screams at the patrons inside to get down on the ground, then she and the men shoot the glass cases with guns to scare the patrons and break the glass to get to the jewels. There is a lot of yelling and shooting, and they repeatedly push people back to the ground who have tried to get up. A few shots are fired in people's direction but no one is visibly wounded. Men shoot at Axel as he leaves a strip club and they shoot back. An exchange of gunfire ensues but we do not see any blood. Karla and company perform another robbery at a race track and shoot guns. Karla shoots two people she works with, including Charles King. Axel points a gun at a security guard's head. Billy then hits the guard in the head with the butt of a gun. Axel fights with another man, punching and kicking him and receiving some blows in return. Men shoot at Axel and his partners at the oil field and a gunfire exchange ensues. Billy pulls a rocket launcher out of a car and fires it. Purely by accident, it luckily hits the truck carrying Dent, which explodes. Axel shoots Max in the head and his car goes over an embankment. A gun battle ensues at Dent's oil business headquarters. Men and women shoot at each other with a variety of guns. A woman is shot and killed but it's played for laughs. Reviewed off DVD / Posted September 28, 2007