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  MPAA Rating Reason Running Time Distributor Theatrical Release date R Violence, gore, drug references, and language 117 minutes Orion Pictures June 22, 1990 The second installment of “Robocop” takes a sharp turn than the futuristic Detroit we knew. Robocop (Peter Weller) and Officer Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen) are still on the job while the Detroit Police force are on strike demanding better wages. OCP is still active in running the Robocop program, but have changed their motives from moral ambiguity to sinister greed: the president (Daniel O’ Herihly) is seen as a ruthless, cold villain instead of a harmless individual portrayed in the original film. The satirical commercials and the MediaBreak news clips are there (gotta love the MagnaVolt spot), but the comical and satirical tone of the movie is replaced by low-brow humor, over-the-top villains (including a tyrannical drug cult leader and a fowl-mouthed 10-year old kid with a machine gun), and to

  MPAA Rating Reason Running Time Distributor Theatrical Release date R Violence, gore, drug references, and language 102 minutes Orion Pictures July 17, 1987        Orion Pictures launched a film franchise back in 1987 called “RoboCop” and released it in the summer, a decade before blockbuster movies were the rage of the season. “RoboCop” told a simple story and made it original in its concept. The movie’s set in the futuristic city of Detrot and a mega-conglomerate company called OCP is partnered up with Detroit’s police force in their never-ending war on crime. Officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) is the latest cop who has been re-assigned to the war-torn area, is partnered up with Officer Anne Lewis (Nancy Allen), and killed on his first assignment by Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) and his group of thugs. OCP makes Murphy the ”prime candidate” for the RoboCop project, and transforms him into a cyborg.     The movie focuses more on story than