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Which would be the best Mad Max 2 to buy? There seems to be multiple versions and I don't want the version known as Road Warrior and I'm sure all the other versions (Europe) are cut. Any fans out there with definitive information?

I have the R1 but here is a comparison of every version available. I'm going to wait it out until a better version comes out.

http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=392

CUTS:

* R1 America - (Warner Bros Home Entertainment) - No Cuts: R-Rated Theatrical Cut (missing several brief scenes, including the close-up of Wez twisting an arrow from his arm and the shot of the feral kid with the boomerang embedded in someone's forehead).
* R2 Finland - (Warner Bros Home Entertainment) - No Cuts: Same as R-Rated US Theatrical Cut (see above for details).
* R2 France - (Warner Bros Home Entertainment) - No Cuts: Same as R-Rated US Theatrical Cut (see above for details).
* R2 Germany - (Warner Bros Home Entertainment) - YES Cuts of 4m25s:
Chapter 8 - 'Wez's arrows of death': -All the rape related scenes are cut.
Chapter 9 - 'A rescue - in vain': -The scene where Max kills the Mohawker with his tool is cut. -Some of the closeups of Nathan's bloody face seems to be missing.
Chapter 10 - 'Greetings from the Humungus': -Scene where Wez is headbutting one of the hostages is cut. -The slicing of Toadie's fingers is cut.
Chapter 15 - 'Hot pursuit': -The scene where a car falls on one of the Marauder's legs is cut.
Chapter 16 - 'Defending the compound': -Almost all the scenes involving flamethrowers are cut. (pink car exploding, guy burning, burning wrecks) -The killing of the drivers of the two cars which managed to enter the coumpound is missing. (one gets his throat slit, the other is shot in the back with an arrow) -Wez headbutting the Quiet Man is cut.
Chapter 18 - 'Nobody gets out of here alive': -The torture scene where the Marauders set fire to one of the victim's legs is cut.
Chapter 21 - 'The booby trap': -The scene where Max' car explodes is a bit shorter. We don't get to see Toadie and the Berserker during the explosion.
Chapter 26 - 'Attacked all around': -We see the grappling hook catching on Zetta's leg, and we see the car tip over, but the sequence where the car is dragged behind the truck and finally pulling Zetta off is cut.
Chapter 27 - 'Casualties of battle': -The scenes where Warrior Woman clutches the arrows and drools blood are cut. -We see Warrior Woman and the Mechanic being dragged off the truck, but we don't see them hitting road. -The 'Cannonball Stunt' is missing. -The scene where the guy on a motorcycle tries to shoot the tyre is cut. We see him aiming, but not being dragged under the wheels.
Chapter 28 - 'Chaos around the driver's seat': -The scene where Max shoots a guy trying to get in through the truck's door is slightly cut. -The scene where Max' shoulder is ripped open is missing. -We don't see Humungus crashing into the rear of the tanker. -We don't see the Pappagallo's being hit in the back by the 'fork'.
Chapter 29 - 'Unloading an unwanted passenger': -During the final head-on crash, we just briefly sees Wez' face when he tries to grab Feral Kid. All the closeups of his face before and during the crash with Humungus are cut. German rating for this cut is 16.
* R2 Holland - (Warner Bros Home Entertainment) - No Cuts: Same as R-Rated US Theatrical Cut (see above for details).
* R2 Japan - (Warner Bros Home Entertainment) - No Cuts: Same as R-Rated US Theatrical Cut (see above for details).
* R2 Japan - (Warner Bros Home Entertainment) - YES - The close-up of Wez twisting an arrow from his arm DOES appear on this release, however all other scenes from the Unrated version are cut out.
* R2 Japan - (Warner Bros Home Entertainment - UNRATED) - No Cuts: This is the complete UNCUT version which includes the missing scenes from the US Theatrical Cut.
* R2 Norway - (Sandrew Metronome) - No Cuts: Same as R-Rated US Theatrical Cut (see above for details).
* R2 Sweden - (Sandrew Metronome) - YES Cuts of 4m25s (same cuts as German version, see German release above for details).
* R2 Sweden - (Sandrew Metronome) - No Cuts: Same as R-Rated US Theatrical Cut (see above for details).
* R2 United Kingdom - (Warner Bros Home Entertainment) - No Cuts: Same as R-Rated US Theatrical Cut (see above for details).
* R4 Australia - (Warner Bros Home Entertainment) - No Cuts: Same as R-Rated US Theatrical Cut (see above for details).

Thanks for that, looks fairly definitive. So the best DVD looks like the original Japanese DVD.

I'll just have to hold on to my old UK DVD for now.

Mad Max 2 unrated/uncut screen grabs.

I remember those scenes too especially the cutting scene which makes me think it was on TV or something. Strange. Maybe I'm just misremembering.

I don't have "definitive information" on a Mad Max 2/Road Warrior DVD, but I can add some information concerning the new R1 releases.
Warner Brothers have announced a HD-DVD and Blu-Ray release as well as a cheap looking standard DVD double feature (with Mad Max 3). See release info here:
HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, DVD

www.imdb.com lists the running times as follows:
The Warner site indicates that they will be 95 min, so I'm not sure if this is going to be the uncut version or not.

We need a definitive release of this movie now.....from any region!!You hear that Australia?

Thank you goosh for that info

Looks like we have a fully uncut Mad Max 2 complete with it's original name.

Sadly it's Blu-Ray and HD-DVD only and since my DVD player doesn't play those I'll not be buying obviously as I have 3000 other DVDs to watch.

Just have to wait for the SD-DVD release!

what do you mean 'original name' ????

the original name is and was MAD MAX 2 - its just that the yanks didn't get onto the original MAD MAX (or understand our 'english dialect') until the success of the second film - therefore the re-naming. (try listening to MAD MAX and the 'dubbed' soundtrack !! - its terrible !!)

Yeah MM2 is original and that HD-DVD's case is wrong but if you read this thread and the thread link I posted you'll see I said I wanted MM2 and that someone said the HD-DVD does in fact have the correct name.

Hopefully you'll read what I just typed.

The original Mad Max actually played in the U.S. 2 years before MM2. I saw it when it was first released theatrically. I don't know why it was redubbed. The original sounded much better. There wasn't a point in the dialogue that wasn't understandable in it's original form.

I've been happy with the R2 Japan (long OOP box set) that I picked up years ago. If I get a 360 with HD-DVD quality I might try that upgrade though for the hell of it. That one night scene is just frustrating no matter what version you watch of it though.

I've got the Mad Max Complete Edition from Australia. Does somebody know, if Part 2 is unrated or rated? There is one scene from the unrated version, but i can't finde the other one..

See list above:

* R2 United Kingdom - (Warner Bros Home Entertainment) - No Cuts: Same as R-Rated US Theatrical Cut (see above for details).

But the RC4 Version (Australia) includes one of the unrated Scenes... the boomerang scene. This scene is in the RC2 DVD Version from Germany missing, although the german Version is r-rated. So if the RC4 DVD is r-rated, why is that boomerang scene in the movie?!