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.
Review of The Dentist 2
