KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Michael_Elliott Hobgoblins 2 (2009)1/2 (out of 4)The original HOBGOBLINS was a rip-off of GREMLINS but somehow it made some cash but it became best known for how bad it is. The film gained a cult following throughout the VHS era and then MST3K did it a favor and gave it even more attention. Originally director Rick Sloane planned on making a sequel two years after the movie but it ended up taking him until 2009.This film follows the original screenplay that was written back then and we have the same characters returning, although they're being played by different actors. The film has the look of a film that was shot in the 1980s so I give the filmmaker credit for trying to stay true to his original version but there are so many problems with this thing that it's really hard to be entertained by any of it.The basic plot has the hobgoblins coming back for revenge but the film is just a complete mess. The original movie, I'm sure, was made as a serious film but it just didn't work out and turned out rather campy, which is why it gained a cult following. This movie tries to be like that and it was purposely made bad to try and be cool or at least have the same campy feel of the original but it just doesn't work.When movies started to be labeled "so bad they're good" many filmmakers went out and tried to make them on purpose. The problem is that these films are simply flat out bad where as a true "so bad it's good" movie was meant to be something serious and just turned out bad. When you try to make something bad on purpose it just doesn't have the same effect and HOBGOBLINS 2 is just a really awful movie that doesn't have any laughs, any scares and just isn't as charming as it thinks it is.I give the filmmaker credit for trying to film the original screenplay (with a few updates) but it just doesn't work and in the end it's a very bad film without any entertainment value.

SPECKstarfire Hey, i know everybody thinx they're an expert on horror nowadays, and i'm no exception. I live for horror VHS - i don't even really care or like DVD re-releases (which i thought this was). Okay, the whole time i'm watching this movie, i'm thinking this was made in '87/'88 (hob 2) becuz it was soO 87/88 no flinching - the hardcore over/under-done acting, the lighting - i thought the internet jokes were about the early internet - i still can't believe this wuz done in 2007! Awesome job pulling that off! and the director's a really nice John Waters fan. kudos need to be given. I met the director when he was signing at Spudic's Movie Empire in Van Nuys.

movieman_kev What do you do if your career has remained stagnant for a decade? When the demand for films about hooker cops have dried up because the USA Network doesn't have "Up All Night" anymore? Well if you're Rick Sloan you make a remake/sequel to your (in)famous other film that only got ANY acknowledgement whatsoever by being featured on MST3K. But this time out, instead of being the butt of the joke, you'd seek to be in on the joke and make the movie intentionally campy. But you'd try way too hard & once again it would all end up in (predictable) disaster.There's no point in describing the plot here, as if you've seen the first one, you've pretty much seen this. Oh the hobgoblins pray on peoples' fears instead of their fantasies and it's set a bit later then the first, but otherwise it's the same thing. Only somewhere worse because the movie's self-aware how bad it is the time out. Needless to say I didn't care for the movie in the least.Eye Candy: None in the actual movie, but there are some topless babes in the trailer for "Mind, Body & Soul" My Grade: D-DVD Extras: Commentary with director Rick Sloan; 'Hobgoblins 2: what were they thinking?' (a 9 minute 50 second featurette on why Rick made the movie as well as the cast from the first one reacting to watching it); nearly 5 minutes (it seems longer) of worthless deleted scene; stills gallery; deathly unfunny fake trailers for Chainsaw Chicks, Nightmare of the lost whores, & Amputee Hookers; and sadly all-too real trailers for this film, as well as, "Hobgoblins", "the Visitants", "Blood Theater", "Good Girls Don't", & "Mind, Body & Soul"

Argemaluco I have very few times felt so disappointed with a movie as with Hobgoblins 2.But it did not disappoint me for being a bad movie,but because it is not enough bad.Or,better said,it is not so bad that it is good.The reason of that low (and at the same time high) expectation is its predecessor : Hobgoblins,a legendary piece of crap which was re-discovered 10 years after its release thanks to the public humiliation it received in Mystery Science Theater 3000, a brilliant TV programme which laughed of any pigswill whose rights were enough cheap to buy.That mockery it received was undoubtedly deserved.Hobgoblins was basically a rip-off of the excellent movie Critters,and it belonged to the wave of movies featuring hairy creatures which were so popular back in the 80's.Hobgoblins could not really be classified as a horror film...it is in fact an inept comedy which is full of clichés,from the teenager main characters to the horrible special effects which were common to see in low budget productions from that decade.Now,21 years later,I hoped that Hobgoblins 2 would fulfill with potential of being the sequel of one of the worst movies in the History of cinema (I am not exaggerating by saying that).I thought this movie was going to be so epically bad that it would case serious consequences : it should provoke psychological damage on me; alter the colours from the television; leave traces on the sofa...in summary,I expected to see an epic piece of crap which would finally cure my obsession with the "B" cinema, or at least,that I would become into a reincarnation of Joe Bob Briggs (he is not dead,do not misunderstand),in other words,a person who is able to enjoy even the worst movies.Unfortunately,Hobgoblins 2 resulted to be tedious and execrable.In other words,it was not so bad that it was good...it was simply bad.In summary : an enormous disappointment,which was even bigger to the one I took with Star Wars : Episode 1 : The Phantom Menace.I think that the main problem with Hobgoblins 2 was that I could not recognize which aspects from it were intentional or accidental.The horrible "jokes" from the screenplay completely fail...seriously,did director and screenwriter Rick Sloan think they would make somebody to laugh? But his work was not only disastrous as a screenwriter,but also as a director,because this movie is full of continuity problems and it never finds a good rhythm or tone.Other important fails from this movie are the incoherent dialogs and the pathetic performances.Hobgoblins 2 is a truly execrable movie which does not deserve to even exist.Stay very far away from it.Rating : 0 (rating this movie with a 1 out of 10 is way too much)