The Rewatch Party 226 - Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

We swing into the chaos feet first, maybe strapped to a bungee cord.  Nick, Anthony, and Elise tangle with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. It’s the wildest entry in the franchise, where apocalyptic grit meets cartoon logic, and Tina Turner rules it all in chainmail and sheer force of will. Between pig-powered politics and rubber-band cage matches, this is Max like we’ve never seen him before, and possibly never wanted to.

Go full Thunderdome: feral children with religion-grade fanfic, post-nuclear sax solos, and more camel jokes than anyone asked for. Elise tries to untangle the feral baby lore, Anthony ponders the economics of brothels in the wasteland, and Nick keeps a running tally of how many times the phrase “two men enter, one man leaves” gets shouted into the void.

Is it satire? Is it slapstick? Is it secretly a rejected Hook sequel with more pigs? Maybe. But we’re here for every glorious, confusing minute of it.

So grab your viewfinder prophecy, put your monkey in charge, and meet us under the dome.  The only law that matters is the one Tina Turner wrote herself.

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