Absolutely dreadful only one of many words to describe this travesty of a "MOVIE".I like the lead actress I have seen her in many films but even she was embarrassing in this film.I also liked Dennis Hopper and he was literally the only character in the entire film I actually liked.The actress playing the lead role was nothing but a screaming,crying,and weak mess up until the end of the film.Spoiler Alert!!!! Hopper was pretty smart up until near the end when he makes one fatal and stupid mistake. Spoiler Alert!!!!!?Leatherface was boring also not the least bit scary and even the violence was more comical then graphic or shocking as it was in the original film.The "comedy" was laughable and felt misplaced making this already nonsensical mind f!*# deranged film feel even more messed up.The ending is hilariously bad and just like most of this film makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.This one should have never even saw the light of day not even Hopper normally reliable could save this one.

Where do I begin?1) Somehow, the Sawyer family is still roaming around, killing lots of people with chainsaws and even serving them as chili to local events and winning awards? Dennis Hopper(a former ranger? marshal?) knows it, and had family murdered by them, but no other cops believe it?2)Leatherface looks like he is auditioning for Soul Train with some truly hilarious dance moves, shaking his chainsaw over his head.3)Hopper tries out saws at a local store, and he hits a log with it as if swinging an axe-- a good way to de-limb yourself; meanwhile, the store owner seems excited, and the dialogue makes NO SENSE. 4)2 teen idiots are attacked by the family. Somehow, a truck in reverse is able to drive straight(backwards) all the way down a bridge while keeping pace with a speeding sports car, while Leatherface stands up in the bed, sawing through the car and killing people. One of the kids shoots him with a revolver, but it only knocks off his mask??? This opening scene let me know how stupid this film was going to be.5)A radio host(100 lb. female) is left alone late at night in a secluded place to work. She plays a tape of the 2 college dudes getting sawed up, which apparently draws the killers to the station to stop her from outing them. Although, this tape proves ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, other than some dorks making noise with saws and yelling, and doesn't even give a clue as to who killed them or where it happened. Unbelievably stupid.6)Leatherface suddenly has a tender side? He rubs the girl's crotch with his saw and seems to have a crazed orgasm in his pants, then can't seem to hit anything with the saw as he fumbles around like Michael J. Fox with a cup of coffee. This scene is so bad it belongs in a Hall of Fame.7)What kind of sick blackmail did they have on a star like Dennis Hopper to force him into this project? He must have been in debt to the mob or on acid when he signed up for this.8)The script is like something from a 5th grade play.9)They beat the crap out of the other DJ with a hammer and sawed him up, but hours later, he is still alive and able to free the girl?10)These stupid, inbred retards are somehow able to run a profitable food business, and hide out with corpses spread across a huge attraction theme park area??? Who is buying stuff from them or interacting with them, thinking these guys are even remotely normal?11)Instead of bringing a gun or sneaking in, Hopper brings like 30 chainsaws(so he can have a Star Wars saber duel?) and screams 50 ft. away from the hideout to announce he is there. He then cuts random beams that should have collapsed on his head and harmed him.12)How is grandpa still alive at 137? Must be the superb health coverage offered by his troglodyte relatives and their sanitized retirement home environment? Laughably ludicrous. It is as if they could not decide if this was to be dark comedy or scary horror. It translates to a gory mess that is so stupid you can't help but shake your head and laugh. Apparently there were obvious miscommunications, as the studio wasn't happy.

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. **

Disappointing sequel to the classic original film is still good, but nowhere as shocking or frightening as the original. This sequel catches up with the Sawyer family years later, now hold up in an abandoned amusement park. The story goes through the story paces of the original, with the film's heroine having to endure seeing friends killed, a demented dinner scene, strange interactions with Leatherface, and an eventual escape. The big difference between this film and the original is that writer/director Tope Hooper focuses a lot more on black comedy, which was certainly an element in the original, but it's much more in the fore than it was in the original film. This sequel also features a tremendous amount of gore courtesy of special effects legend Tom Savini (that's either a good thing or a bad thing depending upon your perspective), which actually earned this film an X-Rating upon it's initial release. Another added comic element is Dennis Hopper playing a crazed Texas Ranger who's hot on the heels of the Sawyer family and looking for revenge because he's related to wheelchair bound Franklin from the first film. Bill Moseley is a real standout as Chop- Top and is probably the most memorable part of this film (and I'd forgotten that his line "Dog will hunt!" was sampled in a Primus song). Overall, this film is is pretty entertaining for horror fans, though nowhere as scary as the original film.