Trees 2: The Root of All Evil

2004 "It's gonna be one hell of a Christmas!"
4.2| 1h41m| en
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Having already faced the Great White Pine in TREES, Ranger Cody is now faced with the task of battling an entire feeding frenzy of geneticly enhanced trees created by the government.

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Brain Damage Films

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Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.
Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
CorblimeyGuvnors This is the follow up to the 2000 effort Trees, which was a homage to Jaws. This, however, tries to flesh out the story. In the original the town of Hazlewood is terrorized by a great white pine. In this the town is beset by a horde of Killer Christmas trees. I did think that the original was a bit interesting, but this did not live up to that one. It looks like this had a bigger cast and more in the budget and the general look of the film was more professional. However if there was any film that shouted out "less is more" then it's this one. I feel that showing the Killer Christmas trees so frequently and full frame was a mistake, as the CGI that was used for this effects was poor and instead of adding anything, just made it look silly. The cast seem to take it seriously enough, but I really struggled through this one. In the films defense. This may have been due to the poor sound quality on my copy of the DVD and I really struggled to hear what was going on, which did not help.
movieman_kev Most of the main cast of the Jaws spoof "Trees" return for this sequel that adds Horshack to the mix. This time around the main villain are Christmas trees. This film, while having its moments comes nowhere near as good as the first film. It goes off on tangents fairly often and just isn't as funny. Whereas I found myself laughing or chuckling at a good 80% of the original, I managed to laugh less here, even though it was a bit of a longer movie. It's humorous but some of the sub-plots and even some characters could've been left on the cutting room floor without harming the film in the least bit. And those flashbacks could've been done away with to as long as I'm on the subject.
Woodyanders A bunch of genetically altered killer mutant trees created by the nefarious National Forrestry Service bump off several folks in the sleepy rural hamlet of Hazelville. Noble, but traumatized Ranger Mark Cody (affable Kevin McCauley) and eager botanist Max Cooper (the equally engaging Philip Gardiner) try to warn everyone to no avail. Come Christmas Eve the killer trees form into a large group and lay waste to the town. Capably directed by Michael Pleckaitis, with rather grainy, but pretty polished cinematography by Andrew Gernhard and Chuck Gramling, a nicely deadpan tone, cool and creepy CGI-animated tree monsters with gnarly glowing green eyes, several sidesplitting killer tree attack scenes, a nifty pseudo-serious shuddery'n'spooky score by Tom DeStefano, likable characters, a handy helping of graphic gore, and a witty and clever script by Pleckaitis and Jim Lawter, this cheerfully inane and ridiculous fright flick parody makes for an enjoyably campy hoot to watch. The game acting from a personable cast constitutes as another substantial asset, with especially solid work by Mary Ann Nilan as Cody's loyal, long-suffering wife Helen, Ron Palillo (Horshack on "Welcome Back, Kotter") as smarmy sniveling wimp rich jerk Dougie Styles, Trish Dunn as feisty blind girl Darla, Peter Randazzo as demented lumberjack Squint, and Brandi Lynn Coppock and Brian Reid as a couple of pesky NFS agents. The lengthy last third with a rampaging army of lethal and ferocious trees attacking the townspeople is absolutely gut-busting. Good, silly tongue-in-cheek fun.
bravabrut This movie is a must see. Watch Trees then watch Root of all evil. You will be on the ground laughing. "Horshack" Ron Palillo did a great job as a wimpy rich man. The rangers wife did great snubbing the husband for the money man. She was awesome. The lumberjacks were hilarious running around trying to kill killer trees in the streets and at the gym. The big guy Fang was a tough customer, and his partner Petey was pretty funny too. He farted everywhere he went. Cheers to the hottie playing the agent. Vavavoom! The graphics were totally cool too. The last time I went camping I was very cautious about how the wind blew and which way the trees were migrating. Those sons of saplings ate my picnic.

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