The Dentist 2

1998 "Brace yourself!"
4.7| 1h40m| R| en
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Dr. Feinstone escapes from the mental hospital where he has been held ever since his wife's adultery sent him on a deranged killing spree. Hoping to resume a normal life, he makes his way to a quiet Midwestern town and establishes himself in a new practice under an assumed name. Things are starting to look up for Dr. 'Caine' – that is, until the day he catches his new love in the arms of someone else. As before, the impact of romantic betrayal sends him over the edge into madness and murder, with his unfortunate patients once again bearing the brunt of his hostility.

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Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
jlthornb51 Director Brian Yuzna has crafted a brilliantly inspired film in this sequel to the original The Dentist. Startling, disturbing, and quite suspenseful, this portrait of a mad dentist who wreaks havoc on those in need of dental care is a motion picture you will not soon forget. Of course, Corbin Bersen gives another outstanding performance in the title role and is nothing less than stunning. His portrayal of a mentally disturbed professional is among his greatest. He captures the sinister menace of the doctor perfectly and will send chills through you. Certainly not your average horror outing as this is more psychological suspense that gore. With the caliber of people involved in the production, it is no wonder this film is such a gem.
ruinously The Dentist 2 is not a good movie and you should make no effort in seeing it. It's story lacks ambition, it's supporting cast is amateurish and the deaths centered around mouth torture made it hard to sit through. Corbin Bernson was very good in this, but he is the sole bright spot to a retched movie.My biggest problem with this film is that it didn't really have much of a strong case for existing at all. The character of the dentist escapes, appears out of nowhere in a small town with a setup name and quickly becomes the town's dentist when he kills the old one in a rage over bad patchwork to one of his caps. This isn't very interesting. It's like a detective television show at times instead of a horror movie.The movie has graphic footage of oral decay and torture of the mouth and they are pretty shocking, but I would imagine you would need some kind of fetish of the mouth to get full enjoyment of it, because all it did was make me sick. The rest of the violence is also pretty graphic and features needle puncture, tooth scraping, nailgun firing, hammers in backs. This might be starting to sound interesting, but let me warn you, it all comes off without a spark. Something is missing.This movie features vase smashing, Clint Howard, really horrible deaths with torture included for some of them, a sex story in the middle, some nudity, really bad actors besides Corbin, a boring story and an ending that is just screaming to be made fun of, but I'll let you find that ridiculous ending out for yourself.
The_Void Even though Brian Yuzna's 1996 (almost) hit, The Dentist was a pretty good psychopath flick that excellently capitalised on the fact that dentistry is a much feared profession; what we really didn't need was a sequel. It's safe to say that this film is pretty pointless; but to its credit, it's not real bad. Perhaps not even as bad as you might think it will be. This sequel reunites original star Corbin Bernsen with director Brian Yuzna. Sequels are always better when the people involved in the original return; but unfortunately, people from the original aren't the only things making themselves at home in the sequel, as the first film's plot has been re-recruited as well. Just like the first time, we get to witness everyone's favourite dentist degenerate from slightly odd perfectionist to out and out nutcase. Like the first film; his psychosis is triggered off by infidelity, and the only real thing that's different is the dentist's surgery. The fact that he's just escaped from a mental hospital doesn't figure in the plot, as it's not long before Dr Feinstone is dishing out his own form of dental hygiene to the local population of a town called 'Paradise'.Corbin Bernsen was the main reason why Yuzna's original was any kind of success. His sinister performance fits the character perfectly, and it's hard to imagine anyone else playing this role. His performance here is just about as good as it was in the first film; although it loses plaudits due to the fact that it's basically just a re-run. The scenes of gore are disgusting in that they mostly take place in the mouth, but the way that the film sets up these scenes doesn't work as well as it did in the original, as it's clear that the plot is only moving along so that the doctor can mess someone's mouth up. Yuzna has implemented a sub-plot, which harks back to the original and sees the dentist's long suffering, tongue-less wife hire a private detective to find him. Even this feels like it's just been thrown in to remind the audience of the better original, and although I found this film somewhat fun to watch on the whole; the fact that it's too much like the original never fails to bring it down. I can't really find a good reason to recommend this flick, as even if you really liked the original, it still isn't really worth seeing.
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.