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If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Going a different direction from where one left off the military lose a canister by a nearby graveyard and the dead rise again to boogie the night away.Returning are James Karen and Thom Matthews playing two crypt robbers who are infected. Relying on the situation comedy trope they bumble up trying to warn the city about the threat heading for it and help their numbers grow.The military has evacuated the town leaving a small group to try and fend themselves from the swarm. What the sequel fail to do is mixing horror in with humor making it a lampoonish cartoon, the characters often make meta references like I feel we've been here before and I wanted to see the nuclear wasteland so I may be biased. The pacing is all over the place leaving you exhausted and has the least re watch value.Feeling the most dated it relied on current styles, music and technology which takes away from the horror that it could take place in any place or time. Not the worse sequel ever made, but it didn't offer anything new or enchanting to draw you in. The first was all about world building from rules of engagement for Zombies, characters, atmosphere and how the gas works. It was a quick cash grab on a promising potential script.

Ignoring the loose connections to 'Night of the Living Dead,' the original 'Return of the Living Dead' was also a classic in its own right. It didn't have the darkness, or social commentary of George A Romero's work, but it had a lot of fun, gore, shocks and humour. It was a good B-movie. I guess it was only natural that it would get a sequel.I read online that – apparently – the script that eventually went on to become 'Return of the Living Dead: Part II' wasn't actually anything to do with the original. It was just a generic zombie movie that was tinkered with to fit the events of the first film – loosely. And, having watched it, I can believe that. It – sort of – follows on from the events of the original, mentioning a few events, but also bringing back a couple of actors who died in the first as new characters in the second – why, I'm not entirely sure, but they're quite funny. Plus the Censors were going to award 'Return of the Living Dead: Part II' a PG13 rating if a single scene was toned down. I can believe that. It's hardly the most frightening or tense horror film ever made. It's not even that gory. But, despite its many flaws, I can't bring myself to hate it.I look at it like 'Slapstick of the Living Dead.' It's – almost – a zombie movie for kids. The dialogue is as cheesy as it comes and makes no attempt to be serious, leaving the audience never that scared for the characters or their plight. You also have to be okay with the lead actor being a young boy. Kids get a bad ride when it comes to films and it is unfair to try and make one carry a whole film. The 'star' who plays the boy 'Jessie' is okay. In some ways that's actually a compliment when you consider how bad some child actors are. Hopefully, you shouldn't hate him.That is more than I can say for the soundtrack. I watched this film in the late eighties on VHS and the soundtrack was a million times better. It's been almost completely rescored and even some extra dialogue dubbed in (where the characters don't actually move their lips!). If you can find it on VHS I would recommend that version.Overall, if you've seen the original, don't expect a great sequel. Be prepared for a much lighter tone from the film. And, if you haven't seen the first one, watch it – it's very good. There's nothing wrong with Part II, just treat it as a Saturday morning type zombie film that you can sort of half watch and half do something else.

It's inevitable that this first sequel to the fondly remembered "The Return of the Living Dead" wouldn't be as much fun. It's mostly a more-of-the-same type of sequel, except that the comedy content is increased. Perhaps writer / director Ken Wiederhorn ("Shock Waves", "Eyes of a Stranger") realized that they couldn't top the original, so decided to take things in a goofier direction. The result is a number of gags that vary in quality. Sometimes the movie is amiable and funny, sometimes it's just silly and tiresome. But the actors give it 100% (especially returnees James Karen and Thom Mathews), and Part II does have some good energy and pacing. Certainly the zombies are made to look more cartoon like than stylized.The Army is transporting several barrels of that wonderful chemical Trioxin when some of them get mislaid. Curious kids look inside one, unleashing the deadly Trioxin which contaminates all of the corpses in a nearby cemetery. Among those who will have to save the day are plucky child Jesse (Michael Kenworthy, "The Blob" '88), his older sister Lucy (Marsha Dietlein), and cable TV installer Tom Essex (Dana Ashbrook, 'Twin Peaks'). Meanwhile, grave robbers Ed (Mr. Karen) and Joey (Mr. Mathews) buy themselves trouble by attempting to purloin human skulls.The cast of familiar faces also includes Suzanne Snyder ("Killer Klowns from Outer Space") as Joey's shrill, annoying girlfriend Brenda, original Morty Seinfeld actor Philip Bruns as the drink-loving Doc Mandel, and Mitch Pileggi ("Shocker", 'The X-Files') as Sarge. Other returnees from the first film include Jonathan Terry (who seems to be playing the same role here), Allan Trautman (who appears much too briefly as a less impressive looking Tarman), and Brian "Scuz" Peck, who plays a featured zombie here.Dopey dialogue abounds, and there are some notable gags: Brenda punches in the face of a zombie, another one trying to rise from its grave keeps getting stepped on, and a third getting blown in half, only to try to reunite its upper and lower body. The characters are generally a lot less interesting this time around, so the viewer may be more likely to root for the zombies.Not bad - it does deliver some modest chuckles - but "The Return of the Living Dead" would have been a tough act to follow anyway.Six out of 10.

As one would expect, the sequel is way worse than the first movie. Because the infection occurs in the same way as in "The Return Of The Living Dead", there is no surprise effect. It still is a fun movie and can be enjoyed if you don't have high expectations about sequels.I found two main problems besides the plot: the acting and the make-ups. The actors, specially the kids, are not good at all. Brenda (Suzanne Snyder), for example, doesn't look scared at all, despite the fact that she scream the whole movie. In the other hand, most of the living dead look like old people or are just painted blue or green (except on some close up scenes). That could have been much better if they followed the example of their first movie.If you liked the first movie (and I don't see how one could unlike it), you should watch this one too. Just don't expect it to be a very good movie.