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Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)

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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

R, 1 hr. 29 min.

Horror

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.

March 26, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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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.

April 11, 2010 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

One of short series that gave James Karen his place in horror movie history.

March 22, 2008 Comment
Video-Reviewmaster.com

Not even a nuclear explosion, it seems, can prevent a sequel to a tongue-in-cheek zombie pic.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

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.

October 29, 2004 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

...there is a severed hand making a rude gesture that is bound to get a laugh. So, all is not lost.

October 25, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

The movie's high points are its makeup and special effects. The movie's low points are almost everything else.

October 25, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

a lackluster and insipid turd of a movie

January 31, 2003 Full Review Source: Sex Gore Mutants | Comment
Sex Gore Mutants

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.

November 5, 2002 Comment
Needcoffee.com

An occasional clever joke but in general a degradation of this branch of the series.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | Comment
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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, 2011
phubbs1

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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, 2011
ajv2688

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    1. Jesse Wilson: (holding a gun) Make my night!
    – Submitted by Creep F (8 months ago)
    1. Doc Mandel: Hardly anything to get excited about, it's only a severed hand.
    – Submitted by Creep F (8 months ago)
    1. Joey: Let me eat your braaaiiiiiinnnnn!
    – Submitted by Creep F (8 months ago)
    1. Lucy Wilson: Look, they're ugly and they're dirty and they're dumb, and I don't even care if they are dead. I hate them, there's no way they're touching me!
    – Submitted by Creep F (8 months ago)
    1. Billy: You told, you told, now you die like me.
    – Submitted by Creep F (8 months ago)

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