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A virtual remake of its predecessor, Return of the Living Dead (1985), which itself was a tongue-in-cheek rip-off of director George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968), this follow-up adheres strictly to a gore and gags formula. Jesse Wilson (Michael Kenworthy), is a young boy being bullied by thugs from the neighborhood when all of them discover a sealed drum containing a zombie corpse. The release of a gas from the container reanimates the dead in a nearby graveyard, thus releasing an
Jan 8, 1988 Wide
Oct 5, 2004
Lorimar Home Video
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The only saving grace in a totally misguided effort is the performance of character actor Bruns who is quite funny as the slightly off-the-wall doctor.
It seems to be doing so many of the same things that made the first one great. It fails, in that it does them all poorly.
One of short series that gave James Karen his place in horror movie history.
Not even a nuclear explosion, it seems, can prevent a sequel to a tongue-in-cheek zombie pic.
Given the abundance of films like this, Return 2 is hardly a classic, but it's far better than it has any right to be.
...there is a severed hand making a rude gesture that is bound to get a laugh. So, all is not lost.
The movie's high points are its makeup and special effects. The movie's low points are almost everything else.
a lackluster and insipid turd of a movie
The first film was an amusing, winking zombiefest that glorified its own cheekiness. The sequel tries to do bigger and better and thus is less and worse.
An occasional clever joke but in general a degradation of this branch of the series.
The sequel follows on from the first with its very very basic and silly plot but this time it goes for the throat with comedy over horror and gory effects. The makeup and effects are again excellent and show what can be done with real skills instead of just using cgi, but in this follow up its not as bloody and in your
May 21, 2011Super Reviewer
This zombie flick is okay, but it's a sequel and not as good as the original, and the actors are bad, and the story is exactly the same as the first too.
January 18, 2011Super Reviewer
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