Alicia I love this movie so much

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

BA_Harrison The vacuous stars and obnoxious crew of a crappy reality TV show crash their production bus in a remote part of Iowa where they happen upon the Pleasant Valley Travelling Jamboree, a group of vengeful Southern ghosts, victims of a massacre during the civil war, who have taken to the road in order to find more Yankees to kill.The South rises again, but I really wish it hadn't, writer/director Tim Sullivan's sequel to his surprisingly enjoyable 2001 Maniacs (a 'remake' of sorts of H.G. Lewis's splatter classic 2000 Maniacs) being an absolute travesty from start to finish. Sullivan once again fills his film with extremely hot and often naked women, plus some outrageously OTT gore, but his script is so diabolical—crammed with unlikable characters, desperately unfunny comedy and lousy dialogue—that even the steady stream of nudity and gore cannot prevent it from being a thoroughly painful experience.To be honest, I was under the impression that Robert Englund would star in almost anything these days, but even he passed on reprising his role as ghostly Mayor George W. Buckman, which gives some idea of just how bad this is.

TdSmth5 How to review a movie like this? There was a time when straight-to-video movies were B-movies, that is a notch below A movies, less budget, less fancy locales and effects, fewer A-list cast members. These days a straight-to-video usually means something D-Z quality.I liked the the first 2001 Maniacs and was quite shocked to see that this one is directed by the same guy. What on earth happened from the time of the first to this? Rather than improve and do something bigger and better they went the other way.The good cannibals from Pleasantville are going through hard times. No Yankees stopping by. So they decide to go on the road and take their Southern charm to the north in the form of a circus of sorts. As luck will have it, a filming crew filming a reality show based on two bleached blond young bimbo friends/sisters gets a flat tire on the circus grounds.Rather than just kill the cast and crew the maniacs force them to watch their circus routines before killing them. What follows is an series of embarrassing skits that are nowhere near funny. If you're attempting to do comedy, you need a writer who can pull it off. Politically incorrect jokes shouldn't be too hard to come up with, but the people behind this movie apparently couldn't find a comedy writer.But what ruins this movie from the start is the terrible audio. No ambiance audio is used at all, it's all re-recorded, on cassette tape it seems and without a timer. If you don't have the budget to re-record, don't do it, or wait till you have the money. That deficiency puts the movie immediately in Z-movie territory. The awful script and direction doesn't help a bit. As a director you need to be able to tell the difference between what works on paper or in a comic but doesn't work on film. Here no one bothered to think that through.Not only does the director return from the first part but also plenty of the cast is back. Poor Bill Moseley and Lin Shaye do their best but not even they can save this mess. There are few positives to this movie: lots of gore and lots of pretty topless girls. And that's the only thing worth seeing here. Just because you have a few bucks to make a movie doesn't mean you should do it. More and more the job of a producer is these days to be able to discern when a movie is doable or not. I take it costs have dropped over the years and distributors aren't discriminating in the least. So it falls to the producers to figure out what kind of a movie they would release and whether it wouldn't be better to wait and find more financing first. A shame really. This series deserves better, it's original, politically incorrect, and entertaining, and I look forward to an entry that redeems this one.

homecoming8 "2001 Maniacs" (2005) was a great horror movie with an excellent balance between gore and comedy. It also had horror icon Robert Englund (Freddy from Nightmare On Elm Street). Englund did not return for this direct-to-DVD sequel. Instead we get Bill Moseley who I absolutely loved in "Devil's Rejects". He seems to be the only one who actually took acting lessons in the past. The rest of the cast is rather terrible; the characters are annoying and not convincing in any way. But the bad news does not stop here: the sound is terrible and seems to be dubbed later on. The story is dull with really only one cheap location for the entire story. So what about the gore ? There were some great kills in the original one, but here it's not that great with some unconvincing special effects. Instead we get lots of boobs but that can't save the day.. A disappointment for horror fans and fans of the original movie. Only worth watching for hardcore fans; 1 or 2 deaths which are okay, but overall it's unconvincing and really cheap. A total lack of thrills, entertainment and even good production values. 4 out of 10 because of 2 gory deaths which were just OK.

privatebleeding The previous 2001 Maniacs was pretty good. I was surprised that the parts between the murders were just as fun the deaths themselves (unlike HG Lewis's original). This sequel to the remake, however, is an absolute travesty where NOTHING works.I'm all for a bad movie, but this one made me angry. The characters are the definition of cliché, the dialog is miserable, and the actors do nothing to even slightly improve upon the crap they're given to work with. Everyone puts on an accent or persona they simply can't pull off. Even Bill Moseley stinks. Every one of his lines comes off as something you'd find on the gag reel. He laughs through each line as though he no longer wants to laugh.The worst part of this wreck is the merciless attempt at comedy. Trust me, there is nothing funny about this movie! When one joke fails, the viewer moves on. When every joke fails, the viewer gets enraged, especially when each stone aged joke relies too heavily upon multicultural racism and flamboyant homosexuality.This movie is worse than bad. This movie is, by and large, a sheer waste of time and energy.