Feast was a fun, throwaway movie that probably upset a few people with the graphic violence and amount of different body fluids on display. But just in case anyone wasn’t offended by it, director John Gulager brings the sequel.
Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan are still on writing duties and this carries on from the events shown at the end of the first movie. Monsters with hearty appetites for food and sex are still running amock. There’s a biker woman who wants revenge against whoever caused the death of her sister, a couple of little people who wrestle and a whole motley group of characters all wanting to stay alive, and willing to sacrifice others around them, in a small town that has been quickly overrun by the creatures that attacked the bar in the first movie.
While the setting has been opened up slightly, Feast II: Sloppy Seconds is just as much of a siege movie as the first movie was. In fact, despite a little bit more of the creatures’ anatomy being shown onscreen, the movie still feels quite small and claustrophobic at times. Many moments are also quite pointless and the movie really feels as if those involved in the creative process tried to throw in everything but the kitchen sink.
The cast are a mixed bag. Clu Gulager is still a lot of fun, Carl Anthony Payne II is great as Slasher, Jenny Wade isn’t onscreen for long as Honey Pie and Diane Ayala Goldner is disapponting as a standard, sneering “biker queen”. Chelsea Richards makes quite an impression as the gorgeous Tat Girl, Hanna Putnam is cute and kooky as Secrets and Tom (son of Clu and brother of John) Gulager is no kind of hero as Greg Swank. I also have to mention Martin Klebba and Juan Longoria Garcia as, respectively, Thunder and Lightning.
To misquote someone from the 80s, it’s all done in the worst possible taste but it’s done with such gusto that if you’re receptive to the gore and humour you will definitely have a good time. But bear in mind two things. First, it’s not as good as the first movie – there is far too much extraneous material and the constant bickering is a bit grating in the second half of the film. Second, there is one scene in particular that seems to upset people who can’t remember that this is just a silly movie and one that’s trying to make people nauseous while they’re laughing hard.
Keep those two things in mind and you should end up enjoying this film. You may even want to see the third, and final, part.
DIRECTOR: JOHN GULAGER
WRITER: PATRICK MELTON, MARCUS DUNSTAN
STARS: CLU GULAGER, CARL ANTHONY PAYNE II, DIANE AYALA GOLDNER, JENNY WADE, CHELSEA RICHARDS, HANNA PUTNAM, TOM GULAGER, MARTIN KLEBBA, JUAN LONGORIA GARCIA
RUNTIME: 97 MINS APPROX
COUNTRY: USA
Film Rating: 
