Review of Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust (2008)

So yeah I was fairly amused with part one and decided to continue this to see where it would go. Silvia St. Croix (which is actually William Butler) is only known for directing this and the third part. Muffy Bolding is only writer known for this and the third part with no other films. William Butler returns as a writer here. Aaron Strongoni joins the writing crew after being a co-writer for the terrible TV movie sequels of the Return of the Living Dead series. The opening for this is a silly Christmas style narration with a recap of the first movie. It's interesting that a few characters are played by mostly behind the scenes people. The opening sequence while visually only slightly better has a more entertaining song with it. It takes a bit too long at nearly seven minutes in to finally get to some new footage. I'm waiting to see how long it will take for them to reveal that this is just a terrible film within the film. That looks way too realistic yuck. The make up here once again reminds me of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It's definitely a crappy version of Puppet Master as well as Child's Play of course. Michelle Bauer hasn't aged very well. The production value looks way better here and yet the entertainment seems to have gone down majorly. It's like they didn't care that they showed the recap because there is absolutely nothing revealing how The Gingerdead Man came back to life. Okay that scene was goofy as hell but enjoyable. So far it's definitely on a path to being gorier than the first one. Oh gosh a random romance gets thrown in there. Oh my god that was just too much. That's just messed up. At least the kills are much better here than the first one. Okay this is getting super corny! Unfortunately it's not the good kind nor anywhere near as fun as the first one. I swear that gun clicked and nobody reacted to it. So cutting your hand is worse than blowing yourself apparently. I didn't see that coming. Oh Tommy with the lines. That is pretty disturbing. Are you kidding? I swear nobody uses their brain here. At least the ending made sense for a sequel. Really the only thing this one has is a few attractive women, well known horror people making cameos, and decent kills. Other than that this is pretty freaking awful. I think Tommy is probably the only character despite how ridiculous he comes off. The one thing I can say positive is that this movie seems to know how awful it is. Still I didn't much care for it.