This Is America 2 (Jabberwalk) (1980)

The atrocities on display here include animal motels, Captain Sticky- a super-hero, restaurants that offer genital-shaped foods, homeless bums living in the sewers of New York. Director Romano Vanderbes Writers Bill MillingRomano Vanderbes Stars Alan AdrianKandi BarbourJello Biafra Storyline The sequel to This is America, aka Jabberwalk. This film goes inside the real America circa 1980 - a world of punks, orgies and worm-eating hicks. Romano Vanderbes back on the film making side and Norman Rose back on narrating duty for the second of the This Is America trilogy. Things kick off slightly louder this time with a performance by The Dictators doing a version of America the Beautiful while the titles role, then right into piece about punk star Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedy’s running for mayor of San Francisco. Then back into a more This Is America feeling segment about a crazy fat bloke called Captain Sticky. Among some of the other more interesting segments we get a look at underground vagrants, a piranha attack, martial arts nuns, a family of worm eaters, a drug abusing church and ends with a death row electrocution. Taglines “Shows what life in America is really like!“ Genre Documentary Did you know Connections Featured in The Sex O’Clock News (1985) Soundtracks America the Beautiful Written by Katharine Lee Bates (uncredited) and Samuel A. Ward (uncredited) Performed by The Dictators Sung by Handsome Dick Manitoba (as Dick Manitoba) Details Release date September 5, 1980 (West Germany) Country of origin United States Language English Also known as Das ist Amerika 2. Teil Technical specs Runtime 1 hour 42 minutes Color ColorBlack and White