KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Eric Stevenson This movie's main flaw is that it spends a lot of its time just setting stuff up and not having any action. Yes, I know the original did it but here, it's a lot of stuff that doesn't seem relevant to the story. That being said, there are some good things here. In the end, we get to see a sword fight with chainsaws! Oh, and somehow Leatherface gets impaled. I had no idea he could come back from the dead. I thought this was just a normal series. Anyway, this had its good points and bad points. It does improve on the original on one aspect.The sets actually look nicer. I guess that's probably because this movie is twelve years later and they had time to improve on special effects. A lot of it is still a retread from the original film. I'm especially annoyed by them doing that same sledge hammer and head over the bucket routine. I didn't realize how prolific Dennis Hopper was. Of course he'd be in a movie like this! I guess if you're a fan of the series, you should enjoy this. **

Leofwine_draca Tobe Hooper's follow-up to his gruelling horror classic is a bit of an unwieldy beast, a wildly uneven sequel that disgruntled many fans. Having watched it, I'm inclined to treat it as a film of two halves: an excellent first followed by a disappointingly vapid second. The idea was good, but it's the execution where this film suffers.Things kick off well with a fine if unbelievable set-piece with a victim being chainsawed in a speeding car (I couldn't figure out why he didn't just hit the brake?). From then on in we're introduced to a whole new cast, with the only returning member of the original film being Jim Siedow's creepy cannibal cook. Caroline Williams is a sassy, appealing heroine and there's inherent entertainment value in the presence of Dennis Hopper, a vengeance-crazed ex-lawman determined to bring justice to the chainsaw family.Things simmer along nicely until the major mid-term set-piece, in which a couple of crazed psychos wreak havoc at the radio station. This marks the introduction of Bill Moseley's bad guy 'Chop Top', one of the most over-the-top villains ever seen in a film! Moseley goes way beyond the call of duty with his performance here and set himself up for life in various B-movies. He delivers his outrageous dialogue with aplomb and has to be one of the most sheer insane characters I've witnessed.Sadly, the plot ends at this point, and the film carries on as the two good characters follow the bad to their lair (hidden beneath an old amusement park, somewhat inexplicably). There's a lot of padding after this, and then a frenetic climax which features Hopper battling Leatherface in a chainsaw duel while Williams attempts to evade the clutches of Chop Top. There's the return of the old man (now VERY old) and lots of grisly gore effects courtesy of SFX maestro Tom Savini, who as usual we can rely upon not to disappoint. But the pacing has gone and there's a sense of just waiting for the film to end; essentially this is a black comedy and the favouring of the gross-out over the genuinely horrific does work against it. All of the CHAINSAW sequels are uneven, but at least this first one has genuine vision – even if it is only in the first half of the movie.

timmyross As I reviewed before, the original "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" is one of my favorite horror films of ALL TIME. It was gritty, raw, and realistic, and as I explained on that review, it seemed like it could have REALLY HAPPENED as many of the promotion of the film had marketed it as being a true story. Everything about the first TCM I love and there will NEVER be any complaints from me about anything in that film.I had not seen the first sequel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2, until I was about 18. The film was BANNED where I live and was not released until around 2006. Finally, I got to sit down and watch it when it played on late-night TV. Overall........I enjoyed it.The film takes place about a decade after the original. Lieutenant Enright (portrayed by the great Dennis Hopper) is a relative of Sally and Franklin Hardesty from the original film who has made it his life mission to find the killers and bring them to justice for murdering the invalid Franklin. After two young college kids are killed by Leatherface (this time played by Bill Johnson), Enright becomes convinced that they were murdered by the same killers, as the local radio DJ, Stretch (Caroline Williams) recorded their death cries, along with the sound of a roaring chainsaw, on her radio program. "Lefty", as Enright is nicknamed, then goes and arms himself up with numerous chainsaws in his quest to hunt the serial killers down in a bloody battle of revenge! Now, I can understand why many fans of the original did not take too kindly to TCM2. It completely diverts itself heavily away from the original film. The realistic documentary-like feel is lost, and instead, Tobe Hooper treats us to a black comedy of gory mayhem. When I first saw this movie, I must admit, I thought it was quite dumb. The terror and suspense that kept my interest piqued in the original was all but lost. However, it was then when I slowly began to realize......it was MEANT to be dumb. Tobe Hooper knew that he could never outdo the original TCM, so he tried something a little different this time around. The entire cast is new, except for the late Jim Siedow who reprises his role as Drayton/The Cook, who is the older brother of Leatherface and the gang. We also get to meet a new member of the serial killer clan in this film, Chop Top (Bill Moseley), who we discover was away fighting in Vietnam during the events of the previous film. The hitchhiker also has an appearance in this sequel, as a now decaying corpse his twisted twin brother carries around.At the end of the day, I still enjoy this film. Sure, it doesn't even come near the greatness of the original, but it is great in its own unique way. Thus, this would be the reason why it too has gathered its own cult following in recent years.

Michael Loughrie This movie isn't TERRIBLE. I gave it a 3 out of 10 because it is just disappointing the the original, in the original they let a girl get away and shouldn't that girl have told the police about the murderers? The thing should have been all over. If this was a sequel it should have been about the beginning of it all. Not into the future. The movie just made no sense. If you get the time right, Leatherface was 34 in the first movie, if this movie takes place 13 years later. He should be 47. So they been at for 17 years? How did they go from a house to an abandon circus. Did they move? So did they just leave all the other dead body parts in the other house and drive in their truck? They snuck in the circus and moved there? How did they get their victims? More people wanted to sneak in or did Leatherface come out of the circus and look for victims. In some scenes in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2" you can see Leatherface comes into houses and cars to kill his victims, then he brings their bodies. Then he butchers them at the circus. So it's a bit stupid. In the original people would go INTO the house and die. In this movie people would be kidnapped.Overall the movie sucked.