The Dentist 2 (1998)

Too much of everything

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

"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!

Our favorite dentist (Corbin Bernsen) escapes from the loony bin and sets up shop in a small town. It isn't long before he is drilling again, since he is possessed by the demon dentist.He is in love with Jaime (Jillian McWhirter ), and that green-eyed monster rares it's ugly head again.Bev (Susanne Wright) starts snooping around like they do in all small town, and the doc's game of "Truth or Tooth" will scare you from the dentist forever.Brooke (Linda Hoffman), his ex, shows up for revenge, but it is Jaime that nails him good. Unfortunately, he may return for Dentist 3.Not nearly as fun as the first one.

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.

I found this film plot-less and plain boring. There was no storyline whatsoever and the only good thing about this film is the humour, which wasn't very frequent. The film is meant to be a horror and Teletubbies would be more frightening than this!