''Pythons 2'' (also known as ''Pythons'', released on home media as ''Python II'' or ''Pythons II'' and sometimes listed in references as ''Python 2''), is a

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released as a Sci Fi Pictures television film on Syfy. A 2002 sequel to the 2000 film ''

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'', it stars Billy Zabka, reprising his role as Greg Larson from the first film, in addition to

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and

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. Directed by Lee McConnell, it was produced by Jeffery Beach and Phillip Roth.

Plot

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Colonel Robert Evans Jefferson, Jr (Marcus Aurelius) has been tasked to lead Russian soldiers commanded by Sergeant Ivan Petrov on a secret mission to capture an 80-foot python that was created by American scientists and has gotten loose near the

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. Not long ago, Colonel Jefferson and Sergeant Petrov, accomplish their assigned task (although one of Petrov's men is killed by the snake.) and the snakes are placed aboard an American cargo plane heading for the United States, Chechen rebels mistake the plane for a Russian one and they shoot it down, This alerts a Russian Army unit nearby, who then attack the rebels and subsequently take the mysterious container back to a nearby base. However, the creature escapes, and slaughters all the soldiers and scientists. The only survivor is the commander of the Russian military base, Colonel Zubov (Ivaylo Geraskov). American Dwight Stoddard (

) and his Russian wife, Nalia (

,) run a shipping business in Russia. Greg Larson ( Billy Zabka) hires them to move a mysterious container, which is holding another larger python, and they reach the isolated and deserted Russian military base where they discover Zubov. After being discovered about his true intentions by Dwight and Nalia, Larson engages Dwight in a fist fight and loses. As he attempts to surrender, a python slithers onto the scene behind him. Larson is momentarily confused. The snake growls and darts towards him. He whirls around and screams as the python coils around him. He tries to escape but creature has him tightly constricted in its coils. Dwight and Nalia look on with satisfaction. Dwight instructs his wife to leave them. The python briefly loosens its coils around Larson, who manages to scream out one more plea for Dwight to save him. Before Dwight can move, the python devours Larson whole. The snake is killed when a brick of C4 is hurled into its mouth by Dwight, while the other snake chases Dwight and Nalia outside where it is destroyed by a bombing run issued by Larson's superiors. Dwight and Nalia survive, and are rescued by Russian soldiers.

Cast

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as Greg Larson *

as Dwight Stoddard * Alex Jolig as Matthew Coe *

as Nalia * Marcus Aurelius as Colonel Robert Evans Jefferson Jr. * Mihail Miltchev as Hewitt *

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as Crawley * Kiril Efremov as Boyer *

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as Dirc * Vadko Dimitrov as McKuen * Anthony Nichols as Kerupkot * Velizar Binev as Aziz * Tyron Pinkham as Pilot * Sgt. Robert Sands as Co-Pilot * Maxim Genchev as Old Chechen *

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as Doctor * Ivaylo Geraskov as Colonel Zubov *

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as Russian Soldier #1 * Georgi Ivanov as Russian soldier #2 * Ivan Panev as Scientist #1 * Stanislav Dimitrov as Scientist #2 * Robert Zachar as Father * Bojka Velkova as Mother * Kiril Hristov as Spence * Unknown Actor as Vladi (uncredited) * Unknown Actor as Sergeant Ivan Petrov (uncredited) * Unknown Actor as Sergey (uncredited) * Borislav Iliev as Russian Soldier (uncredited)

Production

''Pythons 2'' was filmed in

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. The

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supervisor was Alvaro Villagomez, the character animation supervisor as Yancy Calzada, and the

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supervisor was Florentino Calzada.

Reception

The ''DVD & Video Guide 2005'' describes the movie as beginning "on a boring note and goes downhill from there". Doug Pratt states that Zabka's performance appears as if "he had sat through too many Emillio Esteves films"Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More!
Doublas Pratt and called the cinematography of the DVD transfer "grainy". The ''Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 2005'' gave the film its lowest rating on a five-point scale.''Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 2005''
Jim Craddock. The score is a "woof!"
on a scale that is either 1-4 "bones" or "woof!"
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