Mark and Sarah are incredibly dimwitted, and it’s only through the use of some clever parodies does this film obtain ha-ha quality. You can’t make up this stuff, at least not without licking toxic toads. There’s also some sort of tie-in to Alice in Wonderland that is dropped mid-way through. In Waxwork 2’s case, they use a talking raven that used to be Mark’s uncle to explain that all history is a massive Nintendo game between God and the devil. What I love is that instead of letting the tenuous plot drop, they (as in the first film) spend a TON of screen time trying to explain it away through exposition. At least they’re just so genuinely goofy about the plot that it makes the sort of sense that’s easy to swallow with milk. But they can’t, and instead of returning to the crime and taking a photo or two, they somehow get caught up in horror movie parodies (so it’s not actually traveling across time, per se, but celluloid instead). Well, it’s not too bad if they could control where they’re sent. This is, without a doubt, the weakest reason to plunge characters into time travel. After the hand kills Sarah’s evil stepfather, Sarah is blamed in court, and only a magical amulet that lets the teens cross time can prove her innocence. Mark (Zach Galligan from Gremlins) and Sarah (Monika Schnarre) have somehow survived the burning inferno of the waxwork of the first film, but are followed by an amputated hand (Mr. While Waxwork 2 is “technically” a sequel to Waxwork, that’s like saying Scotch tape is a sequel to duct tape just because both are sticky. But all in all, Waxwork II: Lost in Time is enough of a buffet of quirky ideas that it’s fairly easy to be entertained by the effort. It’s kinda cool in parts, ridiculous in others, and the acting has to be smelled to be believed. It’s not a bad movie, unless you hate bad movies, which this spoofs, in which case you might think this is a bad movie. Justin’s review: Let’s get this out of the way first off: Waxwork II is not a great movie. Summary Capsule: Teens battle bad horror movies through a time portal. Tagline: A killer is waiting…In the past, present and future. The Scoop: 1992 R, directed by Alan Hickox and starring Zach Galligan, Monika Schnarre, and Martin Kemp “Sarah and you have actually stumbled into God’s Nintendo game.”
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