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Random musings and plot holes


Okay, so Food of the Gods II is a bad movie. But here's a few things that bug me everytime I watch the movie:

1. Why is Neil's lab bigger than Delhurst's? Dialogue implies that Neil's experiments have yielded little results, and Dean White doesn't seem to think much of him at all, so it seems strange he has such a spacious, well-equipped lab. Meanwhile Delhurst has a comparatively smaller lab. This despite the fact he's being paid by corporations, is obviously White's "golden boy," and above all else, is chairman of the entire science department.

2. As a scientist, Delhurst is an imbecile. Even leaving aside the fatal mistake of cutting his thumb on the glass slide, compare how he works to Neil. Neil wears a surgical mask and latex gloves when handling an unknown substance (the growth formula). Delhurst meanwhile never wears gloves or a mask, handling disease-ridden test animals with his bare hands. Granted, they're just cancerous and cancer isn't contagious (except in this one instance), but, still, you'd think sanitation when working with cancer would be a bigger issue than when working with plants.

3. Does no one, ever, notice that Louis (the chubby exterminator) goes missing? His own partner, the flamethrower-toting Jacques, never seems to notice and it isn't until Neil and Josh find his half-eaten torso that anyone even realizes something happened to poor Louis. Yeah, he was a useless couch potato, but still, you'd think someone would wonder where the other half of Rat-A-Tak went.

4. After Mark gets killed, Weizel says he has nothing to charge Al and Angie with, and lets them go. Nonsense! They HAD to have confessed to breaking into the lab, which would mean Weizel can charge them with breaking-and-entering, destruction of private property (most of Neil's equipment belongs to the university), and criminally negligent homicide (getting Mark killed). Also arson, since by admitting they broke into Neil's lab they may as well have confessed to having trashed Delhurst's too.

5. Furthermore, Dean White threatened to expel anyone who had anything to do with the vandalism of Delhurst's lab. After it becomes clear they also broke into Neil's, White should've kicked their butts to the curb immediately. Really those two should've been first expelled and then arrested.

6. Delhurst enthusing about how the growth formula is going to make him rich is a bit ironic, since Kate said she had intended to go public with it until the incident with Bobby. Had Delhurst lived and tried to patent the formula, and had Kate also survived, she could've sued the pants off of him. (One wonders if Delhurst even knew who Kate was; he had to have at least read Neil's notes in addition to swiping the growth formula and would've thus learned about Bobby, so he should've known there was no way in hell he could pass off the formula as his own creation.)

7. Speaking of Bobby, the "shocking" ending isn't really that ominous when you consider the following factors: firstly, Neil made the antidote, so the growth formula itself is no longer a threat. Secondly, it's doubtful Bobby made it very far considering how heavily guarded Kate's clinic was. And even if he made it past the shotgun-toting guards, a gigantic, homicidal child isn't going to go unnoticed for very long so it'll be easy to either recapture him or just plain kill him.

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