Jackson Booth-Millard
"You know the drill" may be a good tagline for the sequel, but whoever said that this was better than the first is wrong. Basically Dr. Alan Feinstone (Corbin Bernsen), the dentist gone over the edge from the previous film, has escaped from the mental hospital, and under the name Dr. Lawrence Caine he has gone to the quiet Midwestern town, Paradise, Missouri. He is hoping to resume a normal life, and after killing the town's only dentist he has no choice but to take over. He soon settles back in without finding the urge to kill, that is until he sees the woman he has a thing for bonking another bloke. Obviously this sets him off again, orally torturing his patients, if only you saw it happen more than once! Meanwhile, a private eye hired by Feinstone's toothless and tongueless ex-wife Brooke Sullivan (Linda Hoffman) and a couple of other nosey parkers are on the lookout for him. Also starring Jillian McWhirter as Jamie Devers, Susanne Wright as Bev Trotter, Wendy Robie as Bernice and Clint Howard (Ron's brother) as Mr. Toothache. The dialogue is even cheesier than the first film, and there is nowhere near enough horrific and slightly funny torture sequences, and not even Bernsen can save it from being nearly completely boring. Adequate!
whammy666
As a kid, I loved the cover to this movie. It darn near freaked me out. When I was finally old enough to rent this movie, I did. It is not near as good as the first, but it is still really good. It has some real dental torture scenes in it, one better than in the first when they play "Truth or Tooth." Most of the original cast returns including Corbin Bernsen, as Dr. Feinstone. The movie follows as the doctor moves to a different town, under a new identity to start over. But his past finds him, and in the end, the result is the same, or at least similar. The theme music is the same as well, and I love it! The opening scene is really cool, and has the same feel as the first movie. The sad thing is, the woman on the cover only is really in one scene, and just for a second. I think those braces would be cool if they were in longer. The ending is a bit cheesy, but that is okay, the whole movie is kind of cheesy. Check it out if you liked the first!
agamemnon3
I don't like going to the dentist. Every time I sit in that chair with my head cocked back at a weird angle and those people with their paper masks come in and start scraping and spraying and rinsing and talking about their kids, I just get wigged out. This one dentist I used to go to, he thought it would be a good idea to put video games in his lobby, like that's gonna make everything better or change the fact that some guy is gonna be sticking a drill into my jaw in ten minutes. And the magazines are always crap, like Golf Digest and Prevention.That being said, Dentist 2 is pretty good. In fact, I'd say it's just as good as the original. A third wouldn't be bad. It takes that squeaky clean/award-winning smile/elevator music voice kind of a facade your dentist has and twists it up, preying on everyone's deepest secret fear, the dentist. I like the last scene where he walks in on the party and everyone there is freaked when he strolls by with a load of nails in his head. I liked that ending, death by nail gun (well maybe she thought it would kill him). The torture scenes aren't too graphic. It's overall worth your time if you like the horror genre. Watching The Dentist on the screen surely beats the real thing.
craftycrumb
Now seriously, I'm not the type of guy who complains every time a villain doesn't make it through a movie with his life. There have been plenty of great movies with excellent antagonists who I am am glad survived their roles. Dr. Alan Feinstone is definitely not among them. As anal and irritating a character as he was in the first movie, (though I don't blame Corben Bernsen for that. He did the best he could with the script he was given.) the mad dentist goes about pretty much the exact same path of seemingly pointless destruction as he did in the first, and for pretty much the same reason. This banal rehash of the original film brings pretty much nothing new to the equation, and the lack of bitter, demanding, dentist cadaver at the end of the blood bath just makes the entire piece a complete wash. Afterall, the least they could do for making us sit through the same mind numbing gratuitous dental shock fest twice is give us a mutilated maimed and dismembered title character at the end and deliver the sanctity of knowing for certain that there will never be another. Overall, it was awful, and even if the last fifteen minutes were a brutal ongoing death scene for Dr. Feinstone (which would have made the piece at least palatable, I'll admit.) this movie still couldn't hope to get more than a three and a half.
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