Didn't think it possible but Lethal W3ap0n 2 was BETTER than the first! 

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Guy: but...but... you're black. Leo: (nodding) he is...(looks at Roger) you are. 😂😂😂😂

The summer of 1989 was great: Batman, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, Lethal Weapon 2, The Abyss, James Bond in Licence To Kill, and Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, Ghostbusters II, Back To The Future II, and more!

"Kaffir" is a South African slur for black people, basically the same as saying the n-word.

There is also Loaded Weapon which is a spoof on the first three Lethal Weapon films. It was made in 1993 and stars Emilio Estevez and Samuel L Jackson.

{shocked voice} "He's a racist!" LMAO. Yeah. These were South Africans in a movie made in 1989. Google "apartheid"

Lethal Weapon 3 and 4 will not disappoint. Another character is introduced in part 3 and in part 4. Easily one of my favorite series. The sequels are all action packed.

The majority of LW fans I believe think Part 2 is the best one. I’m in that category. All 4 are worth watching..have fun

Roger has a wife and kids through all the movies, but the Lethal Weapon films are very good keeping the existing cast and adding new interesting characters to the LW family.

"It's just been revoked!" Still the most badass post mortem line in movie history.

The word 'Kaffir' is essentially the n-word. White South Africa had a long histroy of horrendous racism. Fortunately, the current generation seems to be taking a much more enlightened attitude (not everyone, obviously, but broadly speaking). Rika is played by Patsy Kensit, a British model and soap opera actor. Being Australian you probably saw her popping up in British media imports, in the same way we are familiar with your actors.

@25:44 No matter what anyone thinks or says about Leo, he kept his mouth shut even after getting brutally assaulted. He wouldn’t betray his new-found friends.

Small fact, the female cop with the curly hair that was eventually blown up on the diving board was also Vasquez in Aliens, and John's foster mother in Terminator 2

Love all the lethal weapons movies. They all have the magic. Hope you watch all 4 of them merry cherry 🍒 where the content may vary. It’s a great journey of growth with the characters

21:10 "He couldn't save his wife but he's saving this chick." Made me almost cry. Side note: I was 20 and managing a small theater in 1989. We had this movie all summer. At least 2 or 3 times a day, I made sure I was in the projection booth during that extended sex scene. Patsy Kensit is so amazingly beautiful I just couldn't resist. You blurred it out, but even after 34 years, that scene is permanently burned into my brain and I could see it clearly through the blur.

The addition of Joe Pesci was awesome to this franchise.

This movie made me wanna go out and buy rubbers

Lethal Weapon 2 is such an emotional roller-coaster ride that it's one of my favorites. Seeing Riggs finally gets some closure, you can't top that. And the ending is so heartbreaking and yet so motivational. I never forget that line, "You're not dead until I tell you."

I love Leo's character, he adds so much dynamic to the team!

Fun Fact: even tho there were no plans for a sequel during the making of Lethal Weapon 1, they hinted at the Apartheid in the first film. When Mr. Joshua breaks into Murtaugh's home and he's entering the kitchen, if you pause you'll see a sticker on the fridge that reads "End the Apartheid".

The great chemistry between Mel Gibson and Danny Glover is really what makes these movies and makes them great!

I love the Lethal Weapon movies. I really like Riggs's since of humor. The thing I like most about these shows is how (in the beginning) Riggs started out suicidal but being partnered with Roger saved his life thanks to the friendship/relationships he formed with Roger and his family. They accepted Riggs as family and they all formed such strong bonds with each other. Please watch the next two Lethal Weapon Movies.

Actually, LW is one of those rare franchises that gets better and better 1-4

“Because you’re bleck.” “He is. You are.” 😂

I believe I read that the original ending was that Riggs would actually die at the end in Murtaugh's arms, but they changed it and the voice-over was done later of them joking and us knowing he was going to be ok.

The pain and anger is Riggs voice when he says " I'm not a Cop tonight" still gives me chills. Lethal Weapon 2 is so goddamn good

That "Diplomatic immunity" "It's just been revoked" is such a classic line.

Hi Mary!🙂Rigg's love interest is Patsy Kensit. She was the lead singer in the pop 80s band, Eighth Wonder. She also did some commercials before acting. You really get to hate these South African Embassy guys and want them dead. South Africa could revoke their immunity for being involved in crimes. Joe Pesci adds some great humor to this one. Super reactions to your second Lethal Weapon film, Mary!!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

If you get stabbed and the knife is still in you keep it there as it’s plugging the wound, if you pull it out you’ll bleed out quicker and could cause more damage.

After Lethal Weapon 3, please seek out the parody Loaded Weapon 1, with Emilio Estevez (Charlie Sheen's brother) and Sam Jackson. It's very funny.

There's a lot of action-comedy out there, but the heart and friendship is what makes this series special. I always tear up a little when Leo hugs them after they save him. 😭

Patsy Kensit who plays Rika was a pretty famous singer in the band Eighth Wonder back in the days. She had some nice hits in the 80s. Sad to see her demise in this movie.

Crazy to think that Riggs found out that the same guys killed his wife and his new chick in the span of about one minute 🤯😖

The word you're asking about (i'm not going to say it) is essentially the same as the "N word" in South Africa. It's an ethnic slur.

Imagine thinking it’d be OK to be late five minutes to the movie. 🙄

The word you keep hearing is the South African version of the "N" word.

The last line of the last movie fully describes the whole franchise. But, to listen to it, you have to take the trip trough all 4 movies. Then you will fully understand it.

"Diplomatic immunity" BANG! "It's just been revoked." One of my all-time favorite movie lines.

I got welled up when Rika died. She was innocent, sweet and just wanted to be happy with Riggs. Deep down I knew she was in trouble. And having Joe Pesci in this movie was a great idea. Sometimes adding a third main character to an established team doesn't work but not in this case. I liked your commentary at the end. You are well informed.

The First Superman movie was directed by Richard Donner.

It’s funny that you said Leo is an angel. It comes to play in part four

Please continue Star Trek! 🖖

I love this movie so much! I just feel so bad for Rica. She didn't deserve what happened. Grocery shopping on the wrong day.

When you re-watch, just before they throw Riggs into the water Pieter Vorstedt says "Don't have much luck with women, do you, Riggs?", Pieter intended Riggs to see RIka dead as he was drowning.

Lol In the comments to part one I said it only gets better. Now I'll say one of the best bromance ever. Love these guys.

Rika was a great girl. When i watched this movie when i was a kid it broke my heart.

I really liked your reactions to this movie, one of the best buddy-cop movies of the 1980s.

Number 2 is my least fave LW but I loooove 3 and 4. Hope you will love them too ❤

There's something absurdly blackly comic about Mel Gibson of all people giving the bad guys in this movie shit for being racist/nazis. "Big smile, guys! BIG smile!"

Love the LW movies. Keep going Mary. Now that you've seen this one you can watch Maverick (not the Top Gun movie, the Mel Gibson movie). I also recommend a spoof of the LW movies called Loaded Weapon.

Leathal Weapon II is still on of the best performances from Gibson...Except for Mad Max, Patriot and Braveheart.

17:00 - "I'm hoping things are slightly better today". LW2 came out in 1989, so before the end of apartheid. At that point, it was a fully white government, and within law the black population were effectively 2nd class citizens. It was another 5 years before it fully changed in law, black people got the vote, and Nelson Mandela was elected President.

Kaffir (or as the Dutch word is spelled Kaffer) is an Afrikaner insult that is considered quite hurtful. It was usually directed at the black people of South Africa. It's derived from the Arabic word Kafir, which means unbeliever or blasphemer. Kaffer in Dutch is actually used in the meaning of idiot, fool or big lummox. It has however gone out of fashion these days.

Richard Donner also directed Superman The Movie with Christopher Reeve

Great reaction to a great movie! I like it as much as, and probably a little bit more than, the first movie. Our characters are established now so we can put more effort into developing them further instead of introducing them., and that makes the movie quicker developing and better for me. Though with that intro scene it's not like we could have gotten into the action any quicker. 😀 These films made me really appreciate how good of an actor Mel Gibson is. He put so much energy and accuracy into showing Riggs as a man teetering on the literal edge of self-destruction in the first movie, and in this one he was perfect depicting a man who was recovering his life but there were still jagged edges in his soul that he could cut himself badly on psychologically, like the gold pen and finding out that his wife really didn't die in a random traffic accident. Then his chance at a healing relationship is so brutally taken away from him with the murder of Rika, a murder that just amplified the evil and uncaring natures of the villains in the movie. No one expected Rika to be DEAD watching this for the first time. We all figured, like with Roger's daughter Rianne in the first movie, she'd be used as a pawn to manipulate our heroes and would be rescued at the end, because OF COURSE that would have to happen. Instead Rika loses her life and Riggs gets another sharp edge in his soul. 😞 British acting legend Joss Ackland played a brilliant criminal mastermind hiding behind diplomatic immunity in this. I believe he's still alive, though he's got to be 95 or so now. I remember him most from Hunt For Red October where he played a Russian member of the diplomatic corps. 😀 "Whatever you need . . . Leo . . . Getz!" Pesci was great in this role and he deserved to get another shot at as the comic relief kind of character he does so well and did so well here. He's another great actor. One of my favorite unheralded/unknown actors, Jenette Goldstein, was in this movie too. She died in this movie (the police officer who died trying to go for a swim only for the diving board to go boom) which is par for the course I guess since she also dies in Terminator 2 (as John Connor's foster mother) and Aliens (as the badazz heavy gunner Vasquez). The Apartheid South African government was starting to go to pieces when this came out, which made them the perfect enemies as, with the ruling party being weakened by other countries not doing business with them, it made sense that party loyalists like Arjen Rudd (the diplomat in this movie) would turn to illegal enterprises to try to keep finances coming in to the ruling party to keep them in power. But the end of Apartheid was inevitable. Thank goodness.

Richard Donner was working on Lethal Weapon 5 when he passed away. Now Mel Gibson will take over directing duties.

They're not doing anything to RIggs. Oh Mare, just you wait...

I live in the Los Angeles area and I have never seen police shootouts or cars turning over, explosions or anything out of the ordinary. I'd hear about police chases happening in LA on the local evening news. The Hollywood movie chases are much more spectacular. The hospital I worked at hired a bunch of English nurses and, what they expected was exactly what you're experiencing: constant police car chases with gunfire, explosions, cars flipping over and so forth. And they came anyway. They were pleasantly surprised at how nice and calm it really is. Of course, in some parts of town, it could be more exciting, but not where I (or they) lived.

Yep diplomatic Immunity is very real. Apartheid was basically legal racism in South Africa, only a few years after this it was finally ended

"Kaffir" is a racial slur. It started in Arabic and back then meant unbeliever/pagan. Over time, it became used in South Africa as their version of the n-word.

I don't think there's another buddy cop film or series that captures the same level of bond between partners. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover definitely had a special kind of chemistry.

Shucks Mary I live in a town of 3200 in South Dakota in a golf course community and have had 2 police pursuits past my house. Life is good😊

Nary the use of the term Kaffir to refer to a Black African is a profoundly offensive and inflammatory expression of contemptuous racism that is .

I'm not sure if majority of audiences will agree, but it's been my opinion that the first DH movie is the best individual film between all the DH and LW movies, but the LW series is more consistent in quality and more enjoyable overall.

That blonde lady is Patsy Kensit, she was married to Liam Gallagher of Oasis for many years but she was quite a known actress in the UK, this was her only major film though.

12:44 Not really, the movie really gets it extremely wrong on purpose since the plot is dependent on it. As a diplomat you have diplomatic immunity, sure. So yeah the host country cannot send you to jail when you commit a crime, but if you cause trouble they can most definitely just boot you out. In general diplomats tend to be careful to act within the confines of the law since even small infractions can land you in hot water with your own country, lower level diplomatic aides have been sent home for racking up parking tickets, so the events of this movie is pretty ludicrous. The special status of diplomats is important since it means they can do their jobs without fear of reprisals from the host country, i.e. "don't shoot the messenger". 12:56 It's basically the South African "N-word".

That "word" they keep using is a South African Apartheid slur for the N-word.

Not sure if Mary Cherry reads You Tube comments...but if she does doesn't finish the series. I cannot go on. If she does finish the series, I will be a Patreon for life.

One of the plot points that a lot of people don’t realize is that during this period of time possession of krugerrands in the United States was illegal. They were solid gold and were used to distribute the gold from South Africa so they could buy things in the world market. The countries that opposed apartheid refused to accept them so South Africa was embargoed without really being embargoed. That is why the discussion about keeping one for a souvenir was in the movie.

Lethal Weapon 2 is the best out of all shows...I can watch this show over and over on my DVD at any given day.

I know this is unrelated, but is that a capo or a tuner on that guitar? You should do some music videos if you play, it would definitely go down well on here!

After these you should check out the Bad Boys movies, I think you’d enjoy them a lot as well.

The only time I like cops are in flicks like this. The TV series had a promising start until the leads couldn't get along and fought like children until the show imploded causing them to take so many liberties it was no longer about the original characters lol

When they were starting to film National Lampoons Christmas Vacation next door, the toilet was still laying on the lawn.

Kaffer is kind of the South African form of the N word. It is from the Apartheid and post Apartheid eras when only white people were allowed to vote or have a say in how the country was governed. I know it is some time ago for most of you young people watching this reaction but I find it hard to believe that Apartheid has been forgotten so quickly outside of South Africa. So many people struggled and died for freedom, and when finally won Nelson Mandela managed to prevent an all out slaughter of the white minority with his understanding, forgiveness and leadership during his time as President of South Africa. Please watch 'Long Walk to Freedom' which tells that tale so well. Great reaction Mary even if some of the understanding was missing. +1 :)

In every Lethal Weapon at some point they destroy the man's house. These movies are crazy.

Diplomats can be arrested if they brake a law that is also a law in their home country.

You’ll definitely like Lethal Weapon 3 & 4!!!

As much as I love the first one, I feel like this one was even better. The characters were really fleshed out more, the final confrontation seemed more stacked against our hero’s versus Riggs taking on Mr. Joshua with half the LAPD on Murtaugh’s front lawn. The stakes just seemed higher and also, we get to meet the folks that killed Riggs’ wife. It also balanced comedy with action. Could you imagine if Joe Pesci’s character was stuck in Goodfellas/ Casino mode. That would be quite intense:)

I like how you can still hear Mel Gibsons Australian accent in this.

yes there is a three and also a fourth and a fifth one iin the fiuyre sometime as the finale RIP Richard Donner (directo) - who asked mel gibson to direct before he died all 4 movies are great

superman was Richard Donner film

Enjoyed your reaction to this wonderful sequel. I hope you continue onwards with films three and four (in which both, besides being worthy of the series, continues the story).

Mary: I'm glad he's having some fun. Lw2 : hold my beer!!!!

This is the best in the series, and also my favorite Richard Donner film.

Either this or the third is my favourite of the series, but they're all really great. Happy Weekend Mary, and Cheers from Canada. 🥃👍✌❤

Really hope you do all the Lethal Weapon movies 🤞

The original ending to part 2 Riggs was supposed to die. Good thing they changed it

I saw this movie in the theater FIVE TIMES. Every time I turned around it seems I found someone who hadn't seen it yet so off we went.

Lethal Weapon is one of those rare movie series where it´s worth watching all of them.

@08:20 that 'k' word that rhymes with 'gaffer' is South Africa's version of the 'n' word that rhymes with 'digger'.

Diplomatic immunity is a real thing, but it's not absolute. In this instance, the US would contact the South African government and request they revoke his immunity. Alternatively, they could just kick him out of the country. The US absolutely could order him to leave, and impose sanctions and other actions against the South African government for backing him (which may also effect their standing with other countries). If the South African government agreed to withdraw his diplomatic status, then he'd no longer have immunity and the US police could arrest him like anyone else. However, it's worth noting that the South African government was Apartheid. And aggressively racist, fascist government that was corrupt and downright evil. So it's not totally outside the realm of possibility that many of their diplomats WOULD be openly criminal. But even they would unlikely tolerate one of their diplomats engaging in criminal activity this overt. Starting to murder cops would be FAR too much heat. The Apartheid government would drop him like a hot potato.

Number 3 is the weakest film of the four. Number 4 is just crazy as it has Jet Lee in it.

Thanks Mary. Being alone it is nice to share movies with you. Lethal Weapon was one of my favorite series.

I recommend Joe Pesci again in Goodfellas & Casino. Both Incredible True Story's 👍.

Looking forward to LW 3, it's the best of the 4. I knew the South African accent because in high school we had a foreign exchange student from Zimbabwe. At first, we were surprised she was white, and very pleased she was gorgeous.

Such a great scene during the toilet bomb when Roger tells Riggs he loves him without knowing how to say it. They had been through quite a bit with the abduction of his oldest daughter in the first film. An unspoken brotherhood that can only be shared by them.

This is one of those movies where I say if you can't choose between the first or the second being better just count them as one big movie. That makes you always right❤

I heard the original premise for Lethal Weapon 2 was much more serious, less comedic. That at the end Riggs was suppose to die and ending the series. But during screen tests the audience didn’t like it hence the ending it is now.

Ok, Ok, Ok I'm so happy you reacted to LW2! This my favorite of all the series. I hope you continue with the next LW3 & LW4! Luv ya MC❤ 💛 PS Watch: Invictus with Matt Damon.