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Mad MaxMel Gibson Aunty EntityTina Turner Savannah NixHelen Buday The CollectorFrank Thring JedediahBruce Spence PigkillerRobert Grubb The MasterAngelo Rossitto IronbarAngry Anderson BlackfingerGeorge Spartels Dr. At the Warner Twin, Broadway and 47th Street Beekman, 65th Street and Second Avenue Loew's 84th Street Six, at Broadway Murray Hill, 34th Street and Third Avenue, and other theaters. Cast: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn. Miller music by Maurice Jarre edited by Richard Francis-Bruce director of photography, Dean Semler released by Warner Bros. Click HERE to purchase the ITS A MAD MAX WORLD Bundle (includes MAD MAX, MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD. The Cast MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME, directed by George Miller and George Ogilvie written by Terry Hayes and Mr. It contains no sex, some violence, and an extraordinary number of menacing-looking creatures. ''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' is rated PG-13 (''special parental guidance for those younger than 13''). Here, for once, is a chainsaw that doesn't work. Max's habit of arming himself to the teeth also becomes the basis for a gag or two, particularly in his Thunderdome confrontation.

And Frank Thring brings a Hitchcock-like drollness to the role of Miss Turner's chief henchman. When Max is due to be sentenced by the rulers of Bartertown, for instance, his fate is determined by the kind of wheel usually found on game shows. The added element of humor in ''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' is uneven but largely welcome. Miller's peculiar brand of brazenness colors every aspect of his grim, futuristic vision, which is one more reason to hope the Mad Max story never takes any further sentimental turns. There's a lot more to this than the bizarre outfits and vehicles with which the film is preoccupied (in the final chase, which rivals the now-famous one in ''The Road Warrior,'' Max drives a sports car covered with palomino hide). Miller's earlier films, lies in the fanciful nastiness of the costume and production design, and in the go-for-broke desperation that informs everyone on the screen. And the film's penchant for oral history, delivered in an odd Australian argot, is its weakest ingredient. Later on, when the film takes Max into the wilds of Australia for his encounter with the tribe of children, the story loses much of its momentum. Miller, who co-wrote the screenplay with Terry Hayes, of lacking imagination. So it's a good thing that the opening credits identify such figures as Scrooloose, Dr. This bit of chronology will be elusive to all but the keenest Mad Max fans, as will the names of most of the characters. As played by Mel Gibson, with the stately world-weariness that has made him irresistible, Max now seems even more recklessly nihilistic than he did in ''The Road Warrior,'' which supposedly took place considerably earlier. ''He's bad, he's beautiful, he's crazy!'' another character says of Max, and that's as good a description as any. It also has Tina Turner, in chain-mail stockings. This film has showier stunts than its predecessors, and a better sense of humor. Miller, who directed ''Mad Max'' and ''The Road Warrior'' alone, this time co-directed with George Ogilvie.) So if it eventually steers Max into the midst of a tribe of primitive children who regard him as their savior, it can easily be forgiven. ''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,'' which opens today at the RKO Warner Twin and other theaters, is the most visually spectacular installment by far, with a few innovations -notably the one of the title - that are far more elaborate than anything George Miller, the director, has attempted before. For the fourth - and on the basis of this one, there will and should be another - he appears to have messianic, civilization-founding responsibilities in his future. So watch out as Mad Max, the hero of George Miller's post-nuclear fantasy films, assumes greater and greater mythic dimensions in the third film in the series. Agreeing to help the children in their search for “Tomorrow Morrow Land”, Max and the children set off across the desert wastelands and returns to Bartertown, where Max has score to settle with Aunt Entity.Apocalyptic fiction generally has an easier time destroying the world than putting it back together. Max is banished into the desert wasteland, where he is rescued by a tribe of children, who thinks Max is a pilot named Captain Walker, who is the chosen one who will take the children to the promised land “Tomorrow Morrow Land”, and learns the children are survivors of a plane crash and Captain Walker was their leader. After being forced to fight Master Blaster, a tiny man and his masked muscle-man in “Thunderdome” a gladiator like arena, when being caught up in a power struggle for control for Bartertown. The Road Warrior known as Max Rockatansky arrives in the desert town “Bartertown” ruled by the evil Aunt Entity, where people living in the post-apocalyptic Australian outback go to trade for food, water, weapons and supplies. When his vehicle and all his possessions are looted by the eccentric pilot Jerediah and his son Jerediah Jr.