Alligator II: The Mutation (1991)
Alligator was a humorous knockoff of Jaws with a giant alligator roaming the sewers of an unnamed city and snacking on anyone it could get its teeth on. Written by John Sayles and directed by Lewis Teague, the movie featured a decent mechanical mockup of an alligator, tongue-in-cheek dialogue and great sense of fun. At the end another alligator is flushed into the sewer. These days that would be a signal that they were planning on a sequel but, back in the 1970s and 1980s, it was just a reminder that the problems just crop up again and again. The movie was popular on cable and on regular television as well. It was one of those b-movies that had staying power so, at some point, a sequel was bound to happen. Predictably, when it did, it didn't differ much from the original movie. However, it was nowhere near as much fun, despite the fact that everyone involved at least tried. David Hodges (Joseph Bologna) is a police officer known as El Solo Lobo by his colleagues and the co