disdressed12 i found this sequel to Attack of the Killer Tomatoes to be a slightly better movie.for one thing,it's high energy and not boring.plus,the music in this one is actually not annoying.however,i still didn't think it was funny at all.some of the gags are just too stupid too be funny.but that's just my opinion.again,i wouldn't watch it again in a long time.it wasted just over an hour and a half when i had nothing else to do.again,it's all about the novelty factor with this one.there's a third one entitled Killer Tomatoes Eat France,which is likely more of the same,so i'll be skipping that one.for me,Return of the Killer Tomatoes!is a 5/10

M H Most people who have seen this movie will probably give it a very low rating.Me for one actually enjoyed this movie. The story is obviously a big joke and not to be taken seriously, and the special effects are one of the worst I've seen so far. Then why give this movie a 6?Well.. it was because i could not stop laughing seeing this movie. The movie has so much random stuff going on in it. Obviously the story is one big cliché and not to be taken seriously, but its just the sheer amount of random unexpected happenings. There are also some spoofs on other horror movies inside.At some point in the movie the director actually kind of rubs in your face there was no budget. Im trying not to give spoilers, but with all the random happenings its not really possible to give away the movie in one comment.Now it would not be fair to give this movie anything near a 7 or 8, because there are lots of movies with a lot of effort put in to it. This movie has obviously not a lot of effort put into it, but i still find it very enjoyable.All i can say is if you are open minded and looking for something completely random, just put on this movie. Just don't expect any masterpiece!

gavin6942 Years after the original batch of evil tomatoes was destroyed by the song "Puberty Love", a new batch has been created -- a batch that can be transformed into a humanoid appearance, to blend in with the human population. Wilbur Finletter, the original hero, returns as his nephew unknowingly falls in love with Tara, a tomato and the girlfriend of the evil Dr. Gangreen.While there's something to be said about sequels not being able to surpass the originals, I find this to be an exception. The humor is campier, and the jokes are lamer. But for some reason, I really appreciate it. The visual gags are stepped up to the level of "Airplane!" or some Mel Brooks movie and I do not think this one should be neglected. Even in the beginning when clips are shown from the first movie, the clips are well chosen to really bring out the funniest and most important parts, adding something to the new saga.The original film was actually a student film at UC-Davis, and was redone in 1977 as what we know today. That could have been the end of the series, but by early 1980s home video came around and gave the original a new lease on life and a sequel was inevitable... this time even produced by New World (who had no input). The bar was set higher (or lower) and they succeeded.George Clooney appears. Actually, he more than appears -- he is on screen more than just about anyone. This is before he was big, and he has a long-haired look as though he was auditioning for the part of Jesse on "Full House" (but I guess he lost to John Stamos). Clooney is very lovable in this film, pulling a Charlie Sheen act of women-chasing that suits him well. There is something funny in retrospect about him running a "Meet Rob Lowe" contest to meet women, when now (2016) the women would much rather meet Clooney than Rob Lowe (though Lowe has come back in the last few years).Some of the jokes are more subtle, at least as subtle as a film like "Killer Tomatoes" can be. Take, for example, the Oliver North Federal Prison. At the time, this was probably pretty funny. Today, the audience who "gets it" will be much smaller (they'll say "Isn't he a commentator for Fox News?"). And there are plenty of sex jokes, but despite their prominence I never felt the film crossed into the childish realm of "gross-out" humor. Even the nudity was more or less tastefully done (I expected much more).For me, the scene (or scenes) with the product placement running joke are among the funniest. We get the characters to break the fourth wall, we get some slight jabs at low budget film and consumerism... and just in general the whole concept is funny. Some have pointed out that the gag was stolen by "Wayne's World"... how much this film (or "Wayne's World") were actually paid by the companies they use in the joke remains unclear.If you liked the first film, I cannot see why you would not love this. And if you grew up with the cartoon, you will want to see this film since this is the one the series was based off of. I have yet to see "Killer Tomatoes Eat France", but I think it is safe to say that "Return" is the high point in the movie series.As always, the best way to see this film is on the blu-ray released from Arrow Video. Besides the priceless audio commentary with creator-writer-director John DeBello, there are also TV spots and other promotional items. Anthony Starke provides a nice interview concerning how he got involved and the use of product placement. Clooney, unfortunately, is not interviewed, but that is not really a surprise. Stephen Peace, a series regular, is also not interviewed, most likely because he went on to be a notable California politician of all things.

MisterWhiplash It's funny, sort of, that Return of the Killer Tomatoes actually lives up to (err, goes to the depths of) the original parody of schlock horror Z-grade movies it's coming from. It knows what it is in its bones, and still has a hell of a lot of fun getting to where it's going- which is almost nothing. I couldn't help but laugh through much of the flick though, especially after having seen the first one. After starting off the picture (and reminding me for a moment of Python's Holy Grail) with a whole other picture (unintentionally?) with girls taking off their tops on a beach, we get right into it full-throttle. John Astin, usually a very professional theater actor, plays Professor Gangreen in the other wild over-the-top horror comedy of 1988 (the other is Don Calfa in Chopper Chicks in Zombietown), and he's got a plan- create killer tomatoes again, but this time not REALLY tomatoes, but just regular tomatoes that can turn into killing machines Rambo style! But the professor also makes a woman (sexy Kara Mistal) for himself, and she strays away with her little fuzzy tomato, or FT, and meets Anthony Stark's Chad, a worker in a tomato-sauce-less pizza parlor with his friend Matt (George Clooney, yes, half a decade before ER if you can think back to them). Things then start to get a little wacky...Well, actually, wacky is such a little word to use. Return of the Killer Tomatoes, a movie that does not feature one real killing tomato (though potential quasi-killers they may be, and once in a while suicidal), is by and large one of the funniest horror-movie parody type sequels of the 80s. It takes itself about as seriously as you might expect, which is not at all. In fact the tongue is so placed firmly in cheek, it comes out the other end during scenes when writer/director John DiBello breaks the 'fourth wall' as the shooting of the movie (and massive, continuous, "elaborate" product placements are put in at every turn after a while, years before the gag was used in Wayne's World). I probably had bigger laughs during moments like these- with some random outbursts of ninjas fighting cowboys in a diner- than I did during the first Killer Tomatoes flick. While the original still does garner points for being as audacious with its stupidity and with a smaller budget (not that the sequel doesn't make fun of the budget at every other turn), the zany spirit of the first film remains strong here, and deliriously so at times. When you got the doctor's assistant of Igor looking like a wrestler, you get the idea.It's a wild and crazy ride, with a 20-something Clooney with a full head of dark hair and basically in a role that requires him just to act as himself to a much more condensed range (i.e. ladies man, which includes a great gag involving him getting girls to go on a date with him, though saying as if he's Rob Lowe). Its got plenty of stuff for fans of the first flick, including the Ewok of the series with FT, who has his own sort of merchandising going towards the end too. By the way, stay through till the end of the credits- it's not just because the director's mother said so!