SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

ersinkdotcom Irwin Allen's "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" does the unthinkable in this follow-up to his blockbuster 1972 film. Instead of people trying to get off the sinking luxury liner, he has two crews trying to get on to it for different reasons. Michael Caine leads one group into it to claim salvage rights to what's been left behind. At the same time, Telly Savalas heads up a team of murderous plunderers in search of a cargo of plutonium. Along the way, they both happen upon survivors frantically trying to get off the ship. Will Caine and Savalas find their treasures and a way to get back off the ship before it plummets to the depths of the sea?I have to give props where they're due, no matter how ridiculous it sounds. The fact that Irwin Allen had the audacity to attempt a sequel to "The Poseidon Adventure" deserves a strange amount of reverence. Can you imagine the power of suggestion he must have controlled. He walked into the offices of studio executives six years after the original left theaters and said, "Hey, I have an idea for a sequel to that movie where the ship sinks. What if people tried to get on the ship instead of off of it?" "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" is proof he convinced them to do it!"Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" is nowhere near as bad as you'd think it would be. It has everything a great disaster movie should. An ensemble cast fighting for their lives as water levels rise. Escape routes becoming blocked as the people fight their way back to the surface before the ship's hull becomes completely submerged. People who you don't want to die do and others you wish would but don't. I wasn't disappointed in it by any means.A PG rating was given to "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure." It contains violence, language, and intense sequences of peril."Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" is one of those movies that never should've happened. All I can say is thanks to all the studio executives with dollar signs in their eyes who greedily greenlit this wonderful piece of cinema history. For those of us who love unnecessary sequels and crave a little 1970's cheese, it's a rare gem that's been found and preserved for us to enjoy over and over again.

PathetiCinema This movie is about a group of actors who's paychecks/royalty fees are in the hull of an upturned cruise liner.Michael Caine wants his pay packet/royalty checks but must enter the Poseidon to get it.Sally Field, Karl Malden and Telly Savalas are also seeking their pay cheques/royalty fees and must also board the capsized bank.A few gunfights later and they reach the vault. Each actor loads up the cash and puts it away for a rainy day. They must then exit the ship and try to return to Hollywood for further work.This is a pretty exciting Irwin Allen epic and it's nice to see actors receiving a good pay packet in the name of entertainment.

disdressed12 it took awhile for me to get into this movie.but somewhere along the line,i actually started to enjoy myself.once you get around the wafer thin plot,it's not half bad.the trick with this movie is to not take it too seriously.for instance,as soon as the bad guys show up,you know they're bad long before they reveal their intentions.the only other thing they could have done to telegraph they were bad would have been to have been for them each to have a neon sign over their heads saying villain.it's that absurd.and there's some cringe worthy dialogue.however,the are some very witty one liners mostly courtesy of Sally Field,and their was an interesting,and(mostly)likable mix of characters.there were actually even a few exciting moments.of course,there are endless explosions.this movie doesn't hold a candle to the original Poseidon Adventure.it was actually fairly pointless,when you think about.but it was fun,and actually quite entertaining.for me,Beyond the Poseidon adventure is a solid 5/10

Equinox1772 I am a huge fan of disaster/peril movies. In the movies I have a tendency to analyze the technical aspects of whats happening as opposed to paying attention to the characters. I'm interested in what's physically happening to the ship (or plane, or building, etc.).The original was great! I always had a sense of where the characters were in the ship as they moved up and back towards the stern. You got a sense that the ship was taking water more by the bow and flooding from that direction. The lighting was realistic in that you could obviously tell that the emergency lights were all they had.In 'Beyond', aside from going back in the original hole and into the engine room from the first film, I had no idea where they were going inside the Poseidon. This was frustrating. Also, the lighting was different. Not to mention the obvious blunder flooding situation. What? suddenly the Poseidon has various air pockets on decks we knew to be flooded from the first?? All the while through the first film they are racing to stay ahead of the flooding...where in this one the ship seems to have decided to stop sinking for a while. The large explosions are never explained although I just reason they are the boilers reacting to the water hitting them (which may also account for the whole engine room exploding finally in the end. We saw something similar to this in the new version. Another thing, in the beginning of the film they show a storm and big waves, then the Poseidon gets capsized, then we see the Jenny caught in the same big storm. This implies that the Poseidon was capsized because of the storm instead of how it actually happened, a sudden tidal wave while in CALM seas. Oh well! So for these reasons this movie doesn't quite fit, but, since it is still an upside-down ship in peril, with explosions and suspense, I still liked it.