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2/10
This is a poor addition to the horror genre that felt rushed and didn't have enough elements to make it worth a watch
kevin_robbins7 March 2023
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2 (2022) is a movie that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a sorority that doesn't believe in the rumors about the school and local bowling alley until they unleash the wish granting gremlin themselves. They'll learn the hard way the evil intentions of the gremlin they've unleashed.

This movie is directed by and stars Brinke Stevens (Terror Toons 4) in her directorial debut and also stars Kelli Maroney (Fast Time at Ridgemont High), Audrey Neal (No Way Out), Jessie Gill (The Pointe), Michelle Bauer (Demonwarp) and Luka Parente (The Christmas Listing).

The best part of this movie is the cameos and characters from the original 1988 cult classic. This felt like a movie only made for that purpose. The writing is poor to awful with no real storyline, purpose of the events or worthwhile acting/dialogue. The acting and dialogue is really porn movie caliber; unfortunately, this doesn't have as much nudity as you'd expect from the poster or caliber of movie this is. There's a scene they literally spray whipped cream on top of a t-shirt (whose idea was that). The last 10 minutes of this film gets really good with some great use of makeup, costumes, horror elements and some fantastic kill scenes. I literally said out loud, where was this all movie? Unfortunately, it's too little too late.

Overall, this is a poor addition to the horror genre that felt rushed and didn't have enough elements to make it worth a watch. I would score this a 2/10 and recommend skipping it.
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4/10
Beneath My Low Expecations
jwerwin8010 December 2022
This didn't do it for me, and I'm totally bummed out about having to say that. I'm a big fan of the original, love the cast and Uncle Impy. I wanted to enjoy this. I'm cool with low budget/low effort movies if they do something fun. I didn't like any of the characters except the imp. Should have spent more on hair, makeup, wardrobe, and script re-writes.

The characters lacked passion, especially the women. They were all just reading lines off of cards.

I'm bummed out that more effort wasn't put into helping Michelle Bauer and Brinke Stevens look pretty. I met Michelle and making her look sexy, and in character, would have required very little effort.

Also, the nudity felt gratuitous. Granted it was gratuitous in the original, but there was story motivation and dialog during it. In this it was just kinda there and not all that sexy.

Like I said. This one just didn't do it for me. Even when movies are so bad they're funny, the filmmakers are trying their best to make the best movie they could.
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3/10
Xerox
BandSAboutMovies13 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The Full Moon Features Deadly Ten series has brought us Necropolis: Legion, Weedies! Halloweed Night, Blade: The Iron Cross and will also include Subspecies V: Blood Rise, Bride of the Head of the Family, The Hourglass, Femalien: Cosmic Crush, Shadowheart Crush and The Grim Rapper.

Brinke Stevens, who was Taffy in the original Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama, is behind the camera, with a script by Kent Roudebush, who has written several films for Full Moon including several of the Evil Bong films. I say written but so much of this is little copy and paste from the first movie, except for two great ideas; Kelli Maroney is the matron for the sorority, Auntie Snake, and is the sister of Linnea Quigley's Spider (who shows up in the Todd Sheets* film Clownado) and Stevens and Michelle Bauer's Taffy and Lisa characters show up as ghosts when the imp (Derek Jeremiah Reid) pops up out of the bowling trophy.

David DeCoteau left over creative differences -- one wonders if it wasn't "Hey, you're just making the same movie all over again" -- and there's no Linnea, but you know, I was charmed when Brinke and Bauer showed up and I'm equally happy that Brinke was given a chance to direct this. It's a little over an hour long, which I can appreciate, and while none of it will be as memorable to me as the original, I did like Bitsy (Glory Rodriguez), the tough girl with a spider patch on her leather vest and who fulfills the same role as Quigley, the only female not dumb enough to make a wish.

The one big difference I can think of from the past as when one of the frat guys makes out with one of the sorority sisters, he realizes that her pleasure is important, so he lifts her onto a ball-polishing machine that vibrates.

Now that Stevens has her first movie done, I'd like to see her grow as a director and try something else, something bigger and grow to make a movie that goes beyond the past. I know she can do it.

*Sheets must love the original because he also made Sorority Babes in the Dance-a-Thon of Death.
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1/10
Makes the original look like Citizen Kane!
baddogbites25 December 2022
I am a big fan of bad movies and have been a big fan of Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama ever since I saw it on USA Up All Night back in the late 80s. I heard the original director David DeCoteau left after creative differences (given some of the films he has made, you got to wonder what this would be) and Linnea Quigley turned down the chance to return as Spider, so the part was rewritten for Kelli Maroney (Night of the Comer, Chopping Mall), who plays Snake, Spider's sister. Brinke Stevens took over as director and appears as the ghost of Taffy, along with Michelle Bauer as the spirit of Lisa, the two doomed pledges from the first film. The cast is poor even for schlock and the even though this only runs 62 minutes, it feels much longer as the Imp does not make his appearance until about 40 minutes into the movie. Watch the original and avoid this cheap knockoff.
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1/10
so, so disappointing.. here's a few ranty spoilers
blooberry-0966515 May 2023
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Being a huge fan of the original, I was compelled to make my very first imdb review after watching this garbage. Here's just a few reasons why:

Whoever wrote this script (yup, didn't bother to check) shouldn't even write their name on stuff. This was truly terrible.... But IF you're gonna do it anyway, and IF you're gonna do a sequel, how about you watch the original first? Maybe, ya know, add to an existing plot line rather than create...whatever this is?

Glaring example: Spider was NOT a pledge. Ever. Just, bleh! SOOO many scenes depended on THIS offensive inaccuracy.

Speaking of, big round of applause for our returning cast? Uh, yeah, no. I get that there were "issues", but the 2 returning o.g.s should have been able to say "hey, that's not historically accurate, bin it!" but nah, instead let's just make 1 of them director and neither one of them has to be good in their role reprisals.

Notice I said 2? Several reviews say L. Quigley refused the role (she must have read the script), but iMDB trivia says she was NEVER ASKED to reprise the role of Spider... which leads us to Snake, and let's just walk right past all that without a glance, shall we? Either way, she's the winner here!

Bad movies have been a staple for soooo many quality actors and filmmakers to rise to the top. There's no hidden gem here, literally no talent was used in any aspect.

Bottom. Line. If you can get through the super unimaginative, abysmally acted, zero quality effects or edited first 40 minutes, and *finally* get to the IMP... you're treated with a hand puppet that looks like it was made a few decades ago in a summer camp by a kid who doesn't enjoy making art, thrown into a dusty corner of an attic (because, as this movie agrees, that's where you put things that you don't eeeeeever want found), and was used years later as a dusty reminder that it's nearly always impossible to recreate awesome. So.. get through that first 40 minutes, and you only have about 25 mins more to suffer through.
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2/10
A brutally bad sequel that possesses none of the charm or fun of the original
PATtheCHUD5 December 2022
I went into this movie really wanting to enjoy it. I love cheesy Full Moon cult classics like Dollman and Puppet Master and fully support the idea of breathing new life into these flicks with new sequels.

That is, unless the end result is Sorority Babes at the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2 - an almost unwatchable follow up that makes its hour-and-seven minute runtime seem like an eternity. If you're a fan of the original, it's unfortunately not worth satisfying your curiosity.

While no one's expecting this to be a masterpiece in storytelling, it's as if they didn't even try to come up with a decent idea for a sequel, and everything else from the porn grade acting to odd lack of anything happening on-screen make this a waste of time for all involved including you the viewer. Even the awesome Linnea Quigley reprising her role as Spider can't save this dud.
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3/10
It was quite bad...
paul_haakonsen18 April 2023
Right, well I figured that a movie with a title such as "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2" would be a corny movie when I sat down to watch it here in 2023. And it should be noted that I hadn't 1988 "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama" movie, so I didn't know what I was in for here.

And seeing that it was a movie from Full Moon Features and that Charles Band was the executive producer, surely there was a chance of it being a fair watch?

However, writers Sergei Hasenecz and Kent Roudebush failed to deliver a script and storyline that offered much of any entertainment to me. Sure, it was as corny as I had anticipated, and that could potentially have been a good thing, but the overall feel of the movie just failed to capture my interest.

And it didn't really help that the imp itself was so awful to look at. It was so painstakingly obvious just an inarticulate hand puppet, and that didn't exactly make things better. Especially not when Full Moon Features have managed to churn out numerous "Puppet Master" movies with way better effects than what was seen in this 2022 horror comedy from director Brinke Stevens.

I was't familiar with the cast ensemble, though I have to say that Kelli Maroney and Brinke Stevens did look familiar. However, I cannot remember in what movies I have seen them before.

Visually then "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2" wasn't a great experience.

I am sure that there is an audience out there for a movie such as "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2". However, I just wasn't a part of that particular target audience.

My rating of "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2" lands on a three out of ten stars.
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5/10
Meh... Nothing Special but not COMPLETELY Horrible
rebeltaz-1870530 July 2023
Not COMPLETELY horrible... boy, that's a ringing endorsement, ain't it? I don't think I ever saw the original, so I don't have anything with which to compare this, so I am reviewing it on it's own merits.

This feels like an 80's movie condensed down to a hour long TV movie. Speaking of the 80's... everything here is in that style - the colors, the clothes, the sets... everything, even the size of the cameras the boys use to surveil the girls - except that they use a modern tablet to access the cameras. :shrug:

The acting is about what you'd expect from a daytime soap opera, but at least it isn't terrible. The plot is (from what I read) the exact same as the original, but it does feel rushed. There's some gratuitous t.and.a and the stereotypical "sorority girl on girl shower scene." There's a bit of humour, especially the imp.

All in all, if you have an hour or so to kill, and you are looking for a movie you can zone out and just watch - no brain cells required... you might enjoy this.
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5/10
Brinked Out: A Relook at VHS Home Exploitation Sinema
babyjaguar4 August 2023
"Sorority Babes 2" was entertaining, deliciously directed by cult icon: Brinke Stevens and stayed within a vibe of 80s VHS Exploitation and paid cable "Sinema", the "Auntie" character's presence and dialogue kept both films together (along with the late 80s "Freestyle" inspired soundtrack).

Many are expecting to many "highs", forget what genre roots this had, for VHS home entertainment where many White teens and college aged males were the biggest consumer.

Its exploitative, considered "low" art and defined the end of the 80s, during the beginning of "Cultural Wars": conservative politics with the funding of the arts.

Congrats on Steven's directorial approach in redoing 80s "scream queen" celluloid camp "ala Band" productions.
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8/10
It's the Good the Bad and still a fun watch !
markzilla-4098030 March 2023
I love b movies enough to just appreciate seeing cameo appearances of original cast members like Brinke, Michelle amd Linnea--but Ms. Quigley wasn't in this one. To me, growing up with some of these scream queens of the 80's brings a nostalgic smile everything time because they're loyal to their typecasting and therefore their fans. Life is short, so some will say dont waste an hour of it out of disappointment but i say see it while you can and get it out of the way because you cant have perfection with sequels all the time. And as aforementioned, since Linnea turned down her recurring role as Spider was reason kept from giving it 9 stars instead of 8.
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