The same giant octopus that was partially destroyed in the first (laughably bad) instalment, returns. This time, New York Harbor is threatened by its tentacles, at least until they stick some dynamite into its mouth (again). Well, that proves to be a bad idea, because the explosion causes a tunnel to collapse and trap a group of children inside. The heroine (obviously not trained for emergency situations) does everything she can to ensure they stay and die there, but then the hero emerges from the air vent she had been staring at blankly for minutes, and evacuates the children.
As you could guess from the above summary, the filmmakers tried to spice up the paper thin plot (plodding forward without any ideas whatsoever) with disaster-movie clichés for the last ten minutes — to no avail. Of course, we watch a Z movie like this for the amusingly lame effects and to laugh wholeheartedly at some particularly ridiculous scenes. Unfortunately, Octopus 2 never really goes over the top, apart from a dream scene in which the octopus eats the Statue of Liberty, so we're simply left with a very bad movie. It's only the pathetic finale that somewhat makes up for the time wasted. The octopus that was previously blown to pieces returns again (you didn't expect that, did you?), so we finally get to see a whole string of dreadfully executed special effects.
The editor (who must have been working blindly like Woody Allen's character in Hollywood Ending), however, deserves an award. It must have been a gargantuan task to stitch the action scenes together so that there is absolutely no connection between the shots. And the effects team should get a bonus point, too, for successfully avoiding any integrity between the raw footage and the randomly placed effects.
As you could guess from the above summary, the filmmakers tried to spice up the paper thin plot (plodding forward without any ideas whatsoever) with disaster-movie clichés for the last ten minutes — to no avail. Of course, we watch a Z movie like this for the amusingly lame effects and to laugh wholeheartedly at some particularly ridiculous scenes. Unfortunately, Octopus 2 never really goes over the top, apart from a dream scene in which the octopus eats the Statue of Liberty, so we're simply left with a very bad movie. It's only the pathetic finale that somewhat makes up for the time wasted. The octopus that was previously blown to pieces returns again (you didn't expect that, did you?), so we finally get to see a whole string of dreadfully executed special effects.
The editor (who must have been working blindly like Woody Allen's character in Hollywood Ending), however, deserves an award. It must have been a gargantuan task to stitch the action scenes together so that there is absolutely no connection between the shots. And the effects team should get a bonus point, too, for successfully avoiding any integrity between the raw footage and the randomly placed effects.