FilmArcade.net: "Evil Bong 2: King Bong" Review

Evil Bong 2: King Bong
Director: Charles Band
Studio: Full Moon Features
Stars: John Patrick Jordan, Amy Paffrath, Robin Sydney
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Running Time: 83 Mins

“Evil Bong 2: King Bong” is the sequel to the 2006 film “Evil Bong”. This time around, most of the stoner gang from the first film, are suffering some side effects, from the weed that they smoked from the bong. The gang decides to travel to South American in order to find the antidote to what has been going on. Soon, they will encounter an ancient tribe known as the Poontang tribe. But, the Evil Bong is back and badder than ever, as she tries to get even with the stoners, while meeting her old nemesis, King Bong. The film is directed, by the creator of the “Puppet Master” and “Trancers” series, Charles Band.

The “Evil Bong” series has driven me back to the films of Charles Band and Full Moon features, as there was a time where I totally lost interest in the company around 2003 as Band and the company’s films didn’t have that comic bookish feel or gothic overtone that made films like Puppet Master and Subspecies appeal to me and most full moon fans from nineties until around 2002, when they were getting help from Tempe Entertainment. This series and the Upcoming “Puppet Master: Axis of Evil” film has got me back on aboard with Band and the company.

Evil Bong 2: King Bong is a film that doesn’t disappoint. Director Charles Band does a really good job capturing the same level and feel that the first film had. I liked how, he doesn’t try and tweet the formula that made the first film entertaining. Instead, Band creates the same atmosphere that makes you feel like you’re on an acid trip that makes this fun, instead of being dull and stupid. He moves the movie along, using sexual, comedic and drug elements to grab your attention, as this is one of those films that you have to check your brain at the door and let your brain get high. Band also really directs his actors, as the actors are allowed make their characters as fun as possible. That’s one of the reasons, why this series in enjoyable. The actors makes the characters fun to watch.

The screenplay written by August White, who also wrote the first film, does a really job bringing the same elements that made the first film, very fun. The screenplay does a good job continuing on the same premise that the first film had, by making the screenplay more fun than trying to be all serious or spoofing to the point that it made it funny. He also does a good job going into the Evil Bong character, a little more into detail, while introducing King Bong. If you think the Evil Bong is vulgar, wait until you hear the King Bong. It’s that vulgarity that makes the films successful, as it was on par with the first film. The humor provided some good laughs that will make you get high. It really didn’t feel like, been there, done that. That’s what makes a B-movie entertaining.

Smoke a couple of joint and rent Evil Bong 2: King Bong. It’ll make you high.

Review Rating: Three and a half stars