The Dentist 2 (1998)

Corbin Bernsen's psycho dentist escapes from the mental hospital and hides out in a small town where he soon picks back up where he left off, namely torturing and killing people. Gross sequel is not surprisingly a poor follow-up to the original, which wasn't exactly Nightmare on Elm Street to begin with. The biggest flaw with this one is that it's not much fun. It's also pretty dull and offered nothing new, just more gore and more gruesome deaths. I'm not naive enough to think that wasn't the target audience they were going for with this. Obviously people who watch for that stuff first and foremost will probably like it more than I did. I don't mind some gore, certainly not when done creatively and not like it came from the mind of a fifteen year-old boy. But when that's all a movie has or even tries to have...well, that bores me. See it if you really loved the first one. But if, like me, you only thought the first one was passable then don't bother with this mediocre sequel.

If you liked The Dentist, you won't like The Dentist II. The first one, for me, was interesting, entertaining, and had some good old fashioned gratuitous violence. The sequel falls well short of the first movie, with far few cool death scenes, mostly terrible acting, and a stupid plot. The gist of the plot is that the same crazy dentist tried to leave his other life behind and start over again in a small town. But, oh, what do you know, he ends up becoming the local dentist and goes crazy again. Then there's some stupid subplot with a private investigator trying to track him down. Normally I'd be fine with that but there is a terrible lack of the same "dental torture" we were treated to in The Dentist. It had plenty of cool ways for him to torture people and had a much more basic and enjoyable plot. The Dentist II's torture scenes are few and far between. It's the only reason I watched the second one because the first one was entertaining enough. This one just misses its mark. The only reason I didn't give this a 1 is because Corbin Bernsen is kind of funny in his role. That's about the only thing that's worth it. Most of the death scenes are boring, slow-developing, with little to no payoff. Woo. Don't bother with this one. Watch something more entertaining like Ax'em.

Already I'm quite biased to this film as it is one of my all time faveourite horrors (and Brian Yuzna rules). However, this film still provides 90 odd minutes of mouth-bleeding madness for those who just want a bit of horror entertainment. If you enjoyed the first Dentist, this is well worth checking out as it eclipses the original movie by far, upping the ante in terms of gore, madness and bonkers direction courtesy of splatter master Brian Yuzna. However, if the you thought the first Dentist was awful or (if you're squeamish) a bit too gory, stay well away! This is definitely not for the faint hearted. All in all, a superb sequel to an ace original and well worth checking out if you're a horror fan (even if you're not I recommend it though).My fan-boy rating- 10/10

I found this film plot-less and plain boring. There was no storyline whatsoever and the only good thing about this film is the humour, which wasn't very frequent. The film is meant to be a horror and Teletubbies would be more frightening than this!