As a kid, I loved the cover to this movie. It darn near freaked me out. When I was finally old enough to rent this movie, I did. It is not near as good as the first, but it is still really good. It has some real dental torture scenes in it, one better than in the first when they play "Truth or Tooth." Most of the original cast returns including Corbin Bernsen, as Dr. Feinstone. The movie follows as the doctor moves to a different town, under a new identity to start over. But his past finds him, and in the end, the result is the same, or at least similar. The theme music is the same as well, and I love it! The opening scene is really cool, and has the same feel as the first movie. The sad thing is, the woman on the cover only is really in one scene, and just for a second. I think those braces would be cool if they were in longer. The ending is a bit cheesy, but that is okay, the whole movie is kind of cheesy. Check it out if you liked the first!

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.

If you liked The Dentist, you won't like The Dentist II. The first one, for me, was interesting, entertaining, and had some good old fashioned gratuitous violence. The sequel falls well short of the first movie, with far few cool death scenes, mostly terrible acting, and a stupid plot. The gist of the plot is that the same crazy dentist tried to leave his other life behind and start over again in a small town. But, oh, what do you know, he ends up becoming the local dentist and goes crazy again. Then there's some stupid subplot with a private investigator trying to track him down. Normally I'd be fine with that but there is a terrible lack of the same "dental torture" we were treated to in The Dentist. It had plenty of cool ways for him to torture people and had a much more basic and enjoyable plot. The Dentist II's torture scenes are few and far between. It's the only reason I watched the second one because the first one was entertaining enough. This one just misses its mark. The only reason I didn't give this a 1 is because Corbin Bernsen is kind of funny in his role. That's about the only thing that's worth it. Most of the death scenes are boring, slow-developing, with little to no payoff. Woo. Don't bother with this one. Watch something more entertaining like Ax'em.

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.