billy jack ( tom laughlin ) spend four year in prison for his killing of a sheriff deputy . during that time and the freedom school and a hippie commune lead by billy lover jean ( delores taylor ) begin to prosper and release newspaper and tv that stick it to the man and care for underprivileged and abused child and and no doubt do lot of drug ( oh and i be sorry drug use be against the rule there ) . billy help the indian and the freedom school stick up to the crooked landowner posner ( riley hill ) and who ultimately call out the police and national guard and with tragic ( i guess ) result . the trial of billy jack be an atrocious film that have to be see to be believe . on the other hand and that may be too high of a price . while it maintain some of the camp value of it predecessor and any enjoyment and unintentional or otherwise and be do in by the fact that the movie be three fricking hour long . the movie pretentious and overwrought and hilariously un ironic political and social content isn not the problem here while it the length and and boy do it drag . the first billy jack have a certain purity of form . clocking in at about two hour and it be a reasonably entertaining film which manage to be watchable and with the camp cheesiness and overwrought hippie world view only enhance the experience . the movie could never reconcile it plea for pacifism with the appeal of billy jack martial art heroic and but it hardly matter . the overlong guerrilla theater routine by howard hesseman and the interminable music number be the big flaw and but laughlin manage to keep himself in check . no such luck here and a trial of billy jack drip with a potent strain of narcissism . laughlin film be fill to the brim of self indulgence and pad the film run time with self indulgence and smug posturing . at least a third of the movie be lengthy and drone performance of atrocious excuse for music and by people with no talent ( most egregiously and laughlin daughter teresa ) . billy jack be continually celebrate throughout a a paragon of virtue and albeit a somewhat flawed one and sing about and worship by the freedom school kid yeah and nice humility and tom . and of course and laughlin smug self assurance that we will agree with our hero and their noxious political viewpoint be rather off put as well and but he get around that problem sort of . the politics be by their nature laughable and accept and endorse every bit of radical and leftist conspiracy jargon a concrete fact . but the way laughlin paint the issue be what make it truly offensive . he juxtapose the film climactic massacre with real life school shooting like kent state and portray them a premeditated act of mass murder by the national guard . the villain be bigoted and greedy and harrumphing straw men and not even convince a caricature . laughlin and co. seem convince that theyre so important that theyre be investigate by the fbi and cia and and the u government at large for their scorching expose ( laughlin would and in real life and use this excuse for the failure of his late billy jack go to washington ) . the journalist interview jean repeat leftist conspiracy propaganda a know fact . the final massacre be so over the top and it simultaneously appal and laughable while the idea that someone would actually hold this viewpoint and however and be what truly appal here ( although and not as laughable a believe that thousand of round fire by trained guardsman could only result in three death in a huge crowd ) . this be offensive and not because of the politics and but because of the dishonesty while it easy to paint everyone oppose to you a a brutal and vicious fascist and and thus ( in theory and anyway ) render any possible argument against the film moot . like and you can not dislike this movie unless youre a pay shill and man . it a childish argument and and it say a lot about laughlin that it his primary defense against criticism . and we still have the problem that billy jack be kick as be pretty much antithetical to the peace and love message be suppose to be get . okay and the movie have some camp value . the lengthy indian vision scene where billy jack confront his spirit double and a cave full of demon be pretty darn funny and in a trippy sort of way . a lot of the dialogue and acting be pathetically bad ( i love the scene where a hippie suggest that the freedom school bomb the hell out of them . ) . but be so pompously self important throughout and so long that it isn not even enjoyable . two hour in and you will be pin for the original film and with the epic karate fight in the lawn and howard hesseman ramble improv comedy and and and yes and coven camp classic one tin soldier and you will realize that there still an hour to go . but overall and this be a film that even the big bad movie buff should be leery of approach . negative .