Part 2 is the classic Charles Band movie: cool premise wasted by cheap production and flat filmmaking. This sequel improves the villains from Part 1 (bringing us into a more Slasher setup) but everything else suffers. The setting is cheaper, the script is dumber and the actors are more comatose. The film has bright spots but they are wedged between painfully long filler scenes and bad soap opera acting. You see the beginning of the Full Moon formula for padding out movies with a handful of awesome moments with lots of nothingness. To its credit, PM2 is better shot and more entertaining than all of the sequels that followed. To many fans, PM2 is regarded as superior to the original because the standard DVD boxset release features a version that is sped up for cable. Watch the original and you will see its a drag-ass imitation of a much better film.
Review of Puppet Master II
