GamerTab
That was an excellent one.
Stometer
Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Fairaher
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Gurlyndrobb
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Platypuschow
In 1996 we were introduced to our psychotic dentist played by Corbin Bernsen, a man drove insane by the stresses of his job and catching his wife blowing the pool boy.Two years later he breaks free from the asylum, switches state, changes his name and starts all over again.But before you know it his inner darkside is unleashed and he torments his victims in the way that only he can.This is a slight improvement on the first but still not exactly impressive stuff. The one standout thing that it does have is just how grisly and hard to watch the death scenes are. I mean seriously, it's pretty bad.Harmless enough watch for fans of the original but as a franchise its hardly worth the effort especially as part 3 was cancelled.The Good: Direct sequel The Bad: Not the easiest of viewing Things I Learnt From This Movie: I may never go to the dentist again
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!
ray-280
Corbin Bernsen returns as the dentist who snapped when his wife had an affair and killed a bunch of people in gruesome fashion. Our "hero" manages to escape prison and resume life as a dentist in a quiet, unsuspecting suburban town with a police force that makes a soap opera cop look smart.The cast has few notables beyond Bernsen, but his over-the-top performance takes this film to the mediocre yet very bloody and gory heights it aimed at. We don't get a movie that tries to be great, or even acutes who take the plot that seriously. What we get is what we expect: to be thrilled, chilled, repulsed, and petrified by the mixture of murder, mayhem, and dental equipment.That we laugh and cheer when the hapless innocents are so deliciously dispatched in films like this is something for the psychs to wonder about, but until they figure it out, I'll be hooting and hollering right along with them.If it didn't have tons of killing and gallons of blood, it would be good clean fun, but instead this movie is just good fun. Good, gory fun.Enjoy when you have nothing better to do and want to see some torture and killing on screen.
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.
