this be the great example i can think of to prove the theory that when hollywood run out of good idea and they make an awful sequel and ruin the first one . now do not get me wrong and i absolutely love the first beastmaster while i even like the third one pretty good and but this movie be atrocious . i be a huge fantasy or sword and sorcery movie fan and i hat to see such a terrible sequel make to such a classic a the first beastmaster . so why do i hate this movie so much . well and where do i begin . first of all and the whole idea of the movie be ridiculous . dar and his evil old brother arklon ( who be nowhere mention in the first movie . huh . ) cross over into our world via a handy dimensional time portal gate . ya see and earth just happen to be on the same parallel interdimentional plane a dar world . whereas with the first movie and youre lead to think the movie just take place in the past and but with this one youre show it a completely whole other world altogether . that just one of the many thing i hat about this sequel . it do not work with master of the universe and and it sure doesn not work here either . movie like this should take place and stay in their own time line and their usual surroundings . for christ sake and what next . hercules in new york . er and uh . bad example . move on . arklon after a device call a neutron detonator to use a a threat against his enemy to rule his own kingdom . so and it up to dar and his ferret and his eagle and and his tiger ( not a spray paint one this time ) to go off and save the world . but along the way they have the help of a young and cool and and hip senator daughter who get catch up in this whole mess and she show dar around l. a. and take him for a joyride in her bmw and and help get him out of tight situation here and there . how convenient right . and speaking of convenient and i find it awfully convenient and easy for arklon to sneak into a highly guarded military base and get away with a steal and highly destructive nuclear weapon . even with half the u. s. army and l. a. p. d. after him . waaaaay to easy and even for an evil barbarian sorcerer from another world . there be sooo many plot hole in this i do not know where to begin while like why do arklon go to the l. a. zoo for at the end of the movie . he absolutely have no reason whatsoever to go there while and wouldn not that be like the last place you would lure your great enemy who just so happen to have the handy ability to control animal . and do not you just love these kind of movie where the police be portray a total idiot and even with half a dozen cop fire at one guy and they still do not manage to hit him . the police in this movie belong in the police academy series . they be about a useful in this movie a reading glass be for the blind . even the title of the movie make no sense represent beastmaster 2 represent through the portal of time . they never actually go through a time portal because the movie isn not set in the future of dar world and it set in a parallel world along ours in the astral plane and so they never actually go through time and only a dimensional world along theirs while so no actual time travel be involve at all . this movie try to come off a funny and it do . not because of the humor and but because it just so bad . and that put it mildly . the acting and dialogue and plot and character and and end be all so cheesy it hilarious . what more can i expect from the guy that bring u return of the swampthing ( another bad sequel ) . sorely miss here be don coscarelli wonderful directing and serious feel of the first one . avoid this stink piece of garbage like the bubonic plague and stick which the first one and maybe the third one if there nothing well on t. v .