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　　《比佛利拜金狗2》雖然不像首集一般安排上戲院放映，但製作規格各方面也都比照當初的電影，同樣是運用電腦科技讓狗狗們開口說話演戲。本片的故事內容則是接續原本的第一集最后，敘述終成眷屬的吉娃娃伴侶 Papi 和 Chloe 如今共組家庭，但是他們的冒險可沒有因此結束喔！沒多久五隻小狗狗們 就報到了，Papi 和 Chloe 成天開始忙著應付這些小鬼頭，防止他們闖禍，給人類主人以及鄰居帶來不必要的麻煩。而且他們的挑戰還不僅於此，這次雖然沒有翻山越嶺，但即使在比佛利本地也會面臨許多冒險，面對一隻嬌嬌狗的挑釁，吉娃娃們還必須登上狗狗名模伸展臺，讓比佛利狗狗時尚界大開眼界！

　　當客人意識到有毒的鯊魚正在滋生周圍的水源時，一個熱帶單身度假勝地將會轉瞬即逝。 它不僅會撕裂受害者，而且還會使用拋射酸來進出水中。

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.

　　一把刀守一個信念，老兵從九龍鎮殺向白馬關，冒死押送之路步步藏殺機。絕境中他背水一戰，縱敵人環伺，仍以諾言為重，且看其如何突出重圍！