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As a sequel, Dream a Little Dream 2 tends to take a lot fun out of the first movie and attempts too hard to carry on what looked to be quite a finite ending in the first film as well. The Coreys return in this extremely low budget comedy/action as friendly duo, Bobby and Dinger. Only, they're no longer the apathetic adolescence we once knew in Dream a Little Dream. Feldman (though still emulating Michael Jackson here) trades in his pony tail for the yuppie look, while lovable Dinger trades in his threads for new age attire. Add to the mix a red head who plays Bobby's love interest and Dinger's sister (who knew?!).

The story involves Dinger being summoned through dreams by the now late Coleman Ettinger (Jason Robards in the first movie, who does not appear at all in this one, not even in photographs). Something that, at first, the guys aren't too sure about. Or at least, Bobby doesn't believe Dinger's warnings about what Ettinger is trying to tell him in those dreams. Meanwhile, Bobby and Dinger receive a pair of mysterious sun glasses with mystical powers of one person who is wearing one pair of glasses following the habits of the other person who is wearing the other pair. A blonde and another con are after the glasses and try to seduce both Bobby and Dinger in order to get their hands on their magic glasses. Sounds stupid, doesn't it? It is, but despite being achingly boring and wholly devoid of all the great things the first movie had to offer, it does get somewhat better as it moves along. At least forty minutes or so into the movie, when they finally pull some sort of story together. Once the movie becomes Feldman and the red headed girlfriend running around trying to figure out what's going on, and Dinger winds up in jail, things do get a bit more entertaining, in that cheap, early 90s low-budget comedy kind of way. In other words, turn off your brain, and you'll surely be entertained.

But, you won't miss anything in skipping the sequel, anyway.

Warning may contain spoilers! Although this sequel to the 1989 hit has really no comparasin(I think i spelled that right!)to the original. Which was a body switch comedy(very popular storyline in the late 80's)this sequel is faithful enough I suppose. The story has a sexy con artist after a pair of spec's, one pair has the ability to make the wearer of the second pair, do his or her bidding. Of course they land in the hands of bobby and dinger which sets them in yet another adventure. Although the film box would have you beleave that this was loaded with nudity, it's not. which is good. mainly because there are so many "sequels" nowaday's that take that territory out of desperation, to get money, and fan recognition. defanintly worth a look.

I have to admit that I have seen so many movies, I can't remember if I saw the original "Dream a Little Dream" movie before watching this sequel. If I didn't, I suspect that I was not missing much judging from this movie. Being that this was made by the CineTel movie company, it comes as no surprise that the movie looks pretty cheap and tacky. However, the production values are just a minor quibble compared to the real problems in the movie. The script is pretty awful - the story feels very long and padded out to a ridiculous extreme. Curiously, the second half of the movie pretty much eliminates Corey Haim's character altogether, though this may have been intentional considering the private problems Haim was having even back then. There are also a number of unanswered questions, like how the bad guys found out about the magic sunglasses in the first place. And while the movie seems to have been aimed at the Coreys' youth audience, there are some elements in the story (violence, sexual material) that seem inappropriate for non-adults. The movie is more of a nightmare than anything else.

While this was not the worst movie I have ever seen this one does pale to the original. First Corey Feldman's Bobby is now a suit. I guess that could happen but most of the movie seemed predominated by the conservative vs liberal debate between Bobby and Dinger's sister Rachel (Robyn Lively), a trend which we say way too much of in the '90s I also feel that Corey Haim was grossley underused. There's an unwritten law in sequels that says use your returning players as much as possible. I'm not going to argue the death of Jason Robards' character Coleman Ettinger because it would be one of the only ways to not have him appear, but I will voice my biggest gripes over the following: 1) that Coleman was actually conducting more experiments on a professional level and 2) that he was having sex with his assistant. Did the filmmakers of this one even bother to watch the original. The reason Coleman-as-Bobby endured high school life, fought Bobby's best friend and put up with countless other high school humiliations was so he could be reunited with his wife and after that he had given up on the experiment was because he just wanted to live his life with his wife. This movie did establish one thing: that Bobby, Dinger, and Rachel are from Cleveland. However this is not the worst movie I have seen and it was good to see these characters again. I had seen the original and liked it so it was almost like a reunion with old friends and I could think of worst ways to spend a Saturday afternoon.