As far as B sci-fi are concerned, this is a solid middle of the road movie. I've watched other craps like the Carnosaur series, and the likes of the Dog Soldier where I have no idea why it gets a high score. Many of these so called sci-fi movies are rip offs in that they state certain monster will appear, but when you see it, the total appearance time of the monster is less than a minute or two, and other 90 minutes is a filler where soldiers or who ever is acting scared and shouting macho BS. Many of them happens in such a dark setting that you can hardly see any details like AVP 2.Compared to these, Octopus 2 has solid performance both from the actors and the octopus. There's a story that's believable, and the actions are not bad either. There are other bad movies out there that's lot worse, and after seeing sci-fi movies for years, this is a solid middle of the road piece.

(There are Spoilers) Ridicules but entertaining monster movie involving this now you see it now you don't giant octopus who's causing havoc in the East River. Almost all the action in the movie takes place not far from where the World Trade Center used to be in downtown Manhattan.The killer octopus who was swept down to New York Bay, from its breeding grounds in Nova Scotia, by a major storm has found that New Yorkers are a lot more tasty then what it's been feeding on up north and decided to make New York its home away from home. New York City Harbor Patrol cops Nick Hatfield & Walter McNair,Michael Reily Burke & Fredric Lehne, get involved with the octopus almost by accident by arresting a top New York City Judge,Harry Anichkin, for trafficking in illegal drugs on his sailboat. Da Judge almost gets the two cops busted for false arrest but, being the drug peddler that he is, later in the film ends up being dragged down, with his stash of drugs, to the bottom of the East River by the shadowy octopus.At first treated as nothing more then a practical joke the octopus makes himself known by eating a number of tourists and destroying a tug boat and it's entire crew in the East River. With the evidence mounting that there's a real danger looming over the city's millennium July 4th celebration the Mayor, Duncan Fraser, is determined to have it go on even if it means the possible deaths of hundreds of New Yorkers by attracting the killer octopus, uninvited of course, to it!The inept special effects make the killer octopus about as scary as the rubber octopus used in the Ed Wood bad movie classic "Bride of the Monster". In fact the Ed Wood vision was a lot more funnier by having a 72 year old, who's recovering from heroin addiction, Bela Lugosi have it out with it with Bela doing the work of both the octopus, who's mechanical motor conked out during the filming, and himself.The movie itself didn't end where the octopus was supposed to have its last stand in the waters of New York Harbor but of all place in the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel that just happens to be water free! We were given this big build up about the octopus planning to crash the big July 4th celebration that's supposed to have some 20,000 boats of all sizes and shapes in New York Harbor! But about the only boats we saw celebrating, if you can call it that, was a few tug and NYPD harbor patrol boats with their crews totally oblivious of what was going on, the big July 4th celebration, all around them.The movie seemed to get lost in its storyline when it started to forget that it was about a giant killer octopus not a sequel to the Sylvester Stallone auctioneer "Daylight". Nick who has his hands full saving a bus load of school children stuck in the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel suddenly realizes, by probably being reminded off camera, that he's in the wrong movie and gets back to business by blasting the octopus, who seems to appeared out of nowhere, to pieces only after he already put it away, or seemed to have, some 15 minutes earlier! One of the last movies to have in it on location shots of the now non-existent, due to the 9/11 attacks, World Trade Center which has more screen time then anyone, including the killer octopus, in the film. There's also the oddity of having the WTC moved around in the movie where we get to see it both south, where it actually was situated, and north, where it never was, of New York's City Hall!

When i saw the first octopus movie it was a laugh see the cheesy acting and appalling effects. This film seemed to make up for the acting, but not the special effects. After Jaws and Piranha, sure, why not make a film about a killer octopus? The octopus invades the New York waters, where 2 police investigators try stopping the rampaging beast before the 4th of July.A pretty clean plot and descent happenings but the octopus was pretty much appalling, its nice to see they actually made it this time but it looked like a piece of plastic... Better on a big budget really, this film could have been a good watch. There's a continuous amount of errors where it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't research the way octopus live...Watch this if you like cheap DVD sequels, otherwise your better watching Jaws.

******WARNING. Spoilers ahead... although the movie is called Octopus 2. You kinda know what you are going to get really.******I got this movie for Christmas along with 23 other top quality movies (including the first one) from my fiancee and her mother. They must really hate me! Only joking! Can't beat a load of bad movies for a great xmas!Now Octopus 2 is a movie you have to be in the mood for. It's bad. The movie is about an octopus attacking people in New York. Okay this will be a stretch of the imagination from the very beginning. The first question that sprung into my warped little mind was how deep is that river? I mean that octopus is pretty damn big. It tries to cop a feel of the Statue of Liberty at one point. It's obviously very lonely too. Now here is the plot spoiler- big mutant octopus attacks and eats random people in New York using bad special effects and stock footage from the first Octopus movie. What a cheap killer octopus!Now I don't think that this review needs an in depth synopsis of this masterpiece. It's bad and that is all that needs to be said really. BAD! However I would like to highlight just one thing that stands out in this movie and that is our hero Detective Nick. I like this guy. Once he has an idea in his head he will not let it go. About twenty minutes into this movie he has realised that there is an octopus killing people and everyone else is wrong. There is no evidence to support this but damn it he is right! How could it be anything else! His partner as well was so stereotypical it was scary. He was leaving the scuba team that week! He might as well have tattooed VICTIM in glowing letters across his forehead. My recommendation for this movie is buy it! Hilarity prevails in every scene. Not for the faint of heart or the sane of mind. Oh this is so bad. Did I say that already?