The Return of Swamp Thing

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Lou T Following up the dreadfully boring and generic original, The Return of Swamp Thing takes us back to the swamp and into a very different kind of sequel. Moving away from the poorly handled serious aspects that made the original so boring, the sequel relies more on comedy and, shockingly, they do it really well! Returning as the titular creature, Dick Durock adds a lighter tone and jovial attitude which work much better than the stoic nature of the previous installment. Heather Locklear as Abby Arcane adds a delightfully humorous love interest, equipped with quite a few memorable one-liners. Although Dr. Anton Arcane (Louis Jourdan) returns to continue his hunt for Swamp Thing, this still fails to create any original or exciting action, sticking with the lackluster strongman punches of the original. The prosthetics still look cheesy, but have been improved and look much more detailed this time around. While The Return of Swamp Thing is no masterpiece, the team saw what didn't work in the original and put time and effort into creating a truly fun time capsule of campy film. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/09/24 Full Review Petros T Adopting a much less serious, more humorous approach than the original, it's more pleasant and appealing, even if the laughs are not always necessarily intentional. The prosthetics are considerably improved, the tradition of the comic relief kid is successfully continued with not one but two kids this time, and the end is sweet. The script remains a rather cliched, predictable, half-baked mess however, and the use of a model for the love scene is an odd choice that negates the whole point of it. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/14/23 Full Review Vin f Better than the first. It has better fighting scenes, the way the made the villains, and the woman of swamp thing. More funny and less darker. The ginger kids acting was horrible, though. Can't blame him, he is probably only 8. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/17/23 Full Review Tim . Masterfully imitates a campy, cult classic, without actually being one. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/22/22 Full Review Audience Member I find it incredibly humorous that after Alan Moore, Stephen Bisette and John Totleben reinvented comic books with Saga of the Swamp Thing, director Jim Wynorski and writers Neil Cuthbert and Grant Morris were making this sequel to the original Swamp Thing and went nearly full camp. After her mother's mysterious death, Abigail Arcane (Heather Locklear) has come to confront her wicked stepfather Dr. Arcane (the returning Louis Jordan) who has somehow come back from the grave and is working to stop the aging proccess with Dr. Lana Zurrell (Sarah Douglas). Oh yeah, he's also making an army of monsters. Luckily, Swamp Thing is around and still played by stuntman Dick Durock, who wore a seventy plus pound suit in the humid swams so we'd have a movie to watch. This being a Wynorski movie, Monique Gabrielle shows up as well. I love that in the midst of this wackiness — I mean, Swamp Thing drives a jeep at one point sending me into fits of laughter — the movie takes the time to recreate the love scene between its hero and Abby from "Rite of Spring," which appeared in Swamp Thing #34. In the hands of the comic creative team, it's poetic, gorgeous and full of deep meanings about man's spiritual place in nature. In the hands of Wynorski, it's Heather Locklear eating a cucumber out of a swamp person. In my youth, I used to look down on the director's movies as fluff. As I've grown older, I appreciate them for their entertainment value and how well made they are. Not everything has to be so deadly droll all the time. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review brad p ‘The Return of Swamp Thing' is Horror Fun with a Green Thumb Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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