Warner Bros released Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior to theaters on May 21, 1982. George Miller directs the film which stars Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior Movie Summary In a desolate world, far from civilized men and uppity Jews, roams an angry, bitter man destined to dole out cute pet names to female police officers, and bleed millions of dollars to gold-digging ex-wives. Even though we don’t need another hero, Mel Gibson finds himself as one, in a crusade against roving gangs of homosexual hoodlums in the Australian Outback. Wearing little more than ass-less chaps, these thugs plug just about anything for a full tank of gas, but our boy Mel knows how to make them put a cork in it, and this is his story. The Road Warrior begins in an apocalyptic wasteland in the distant future following a global war that has nearly wiped out civilization and everyone’s notion of civility. The world’s supplies of gasoline have been exhausted to the point that men, and pretty much only men, resort to violence and death to keep their vehicles running. Mankind has abandoned law and order in favor of the sort of chaos that is more commonly seen on a Los Angeles freeway on a Friday before a three day weekend. Max Rockatansky is a former police officer who lost his wife and child to one of those marauding hordes in the first Mad Max film. He now wanders the desolation of the depopulated desert in a scarred and supercharged black V-8 Pursuit Special; his only friend — a Blue Heeler — riding shotgun. As the film opens, Max, his dog, and that sweet ride of his are being pursued by a “Right Said Fred” impersonator named Wez, and his “girlfriends” who all have darker five o’clock shadow than Jon Hamm at midnight. Wez is a Mohawk maniac who has a penchant for platinum-blonde twinks, long, hard arrows, and male penetration with any utensil.   (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Disclaimer This podcast is for entertainment and information purposes only. The theme music for Lunchtime Movie Review, Fireworks is provided courtesy of Alexander Nakarada at serpentsoundstudios.com under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. All original content of this podcast is the intellectual property of Lunchtime Movie Review, the MHM Podcast Network, and Fuzzy Bunny Slippers Entertainment LLC unless otherwise noted. This post contains affiliate links that will take you to Amazon.com and/or the iTunes Store. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission. Advertisers and affiliate partnerships do not influence our content. For more information, please read our Terms of Use about the inclusion of affiliate links on this site.