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No matter how adeptly Chainsaw 2 was put together, it would remain just another exploitation flick for fans who get a tingle from watching blades slash into flesh and innards peep out.
Part 2 has a lot of blood and disembowelment, to be sure, but it doesn't have the terror of the original, the desire to be taken seriously. It's a geek show.
A good deal gorier and more disturbing than the original. Certainly it's far better than the soulless 2003 remake.
A ripe and wicked horror-comedy, as black as pitch and every bit as violent as naysayers mistakenly accused the first film of being.
There is absolutely nothing to distract us from the sheer misery of watching oblivious clowns cracking awful jokes.
Society is restored as before, but it's a society based on victims and victimizers. De Sade rewrites Darwin.
...if nothing else, the entire flick may be worth a look for the absurd moment in which Leatherface breaks loose with a particularly apt example of the ol' shifty eye.
The film feels as if Hooper himself has nothing but contempt for the original and went out of his way to tear it down.
'Bloody' good fun....Hooper's still the man when it comes to horror
It's all good as long as you consider it a blacker than black comedy (and not a horror movie).
The most tedious crapfest I've sat through in a while. Annoying characters who never shut up. Even some amusing moments with Hopper can't save it.
This movie is a great, big mess.
Nothing says subversive like a good horror film, and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is as subversive as they come.
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