Mel Gibson all leathered up with a sawn-off shot gun prancing around a post apocalyptic, bbq free Australia with only his dog and a thirst for fuel as company. Probably seemed a like a decent idea at the time.
George Miller completed this middle part of the feel good fairy tale series prior to inventing the weirdo sub genre of exploito-bestial-snuff-death with the savage, ‘Babe’. Mad Max 2 remains Miller’s most subtle work.