The Return of Swamp Thing

1989 "Why can't men be more like plants?"
4.6| 1h24m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 11 May 1989 Released
Producted By: DC Comics
Country: United States of America
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The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object of affection.

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Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
OllieSuave-007 This the sequel to "The Swamp Thing," where the evil Dr. Arcane (Louis Jourdan) returns and has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation. In order to gain immortality, he chooses his stepdaughter, Abby Arcane (Heather Locklear), as the key in his immortality experiment.The movie attempted to blend in comic relief, a superhero feel, and sci-fi action. What resulted, is a very campy film with average acting, forced humor, and silly action scenes. But, if you look at the video/DVD cover graphic of the Swamp Thing carrying a smiling Heather Locklear, it tells you that this film is meant to be a fantasy campfest - not the foreboding, serious, doom and gloom story like its prequel.I could do without the two annoying kids in the movie, but the rest of the characters were quite hilarious to watch, especially that of Heather Locklear (loved her deadpan delivery and witty humor). The monster action starts almost right away, with the Swamp Thing fighting one of Dr. Arcane's mutated creatures in the swamp. And, the action continues on with the Swamp Thing battling incompetent bad guys left and right.Not a scary film at all, just full of creepy looking creatures. The plot was rather fast-paced, but the story was the basic mad scientist story-line. Not much suspense in the film, but full of campy fun and humor that isn't all bad.Grade C+
Leofwine_draca THE RETURN OF SWAMP THING is a sequel to the Wes Craven original, directed by Jim Wynorski this time around. Given that Wynorski has never made a decent movie, the odds are stacked against this one too, and so it proves. This is silly, campy film throughout, one which is bogged down by awful overacting from the supporting players and a general lack of coherence.The story sees the titular character returning to fight villain Louis Jourdan once more, after he somehow survived at the end of the last picture. There's some rubbery action and lots of posing from starlet Heather Locklear, but the whole thing's a cheese fest along the lines of the TROLL movies. I always found Swamp Thing one of the silliest comic book heroes (sillier even than the Toxic Avenger) and so it proves here.
SnoopyStyle Evil Dr. Anton Arcane (Louis Jourdan) returns with a new lab and a new crew. Dr. Lana Zurrell (Sarah Douglas) and Dr. Rochelle are working on mutating their human subjects with plants, animals, and insects of the swamp. Anton's goons are murdering any trespassers. There is a monster on the loose. Abby Arcane (Heather Locklear) arrives to confront her stepfather. When she's attacked by local moonshiners, Swamp Thing comes to her rescue. Anton kidnaps her to experiment.This is intentionally made into a campier sequel to Swamp Thing (82). It's not actually funny. One can't blame the Razzie win on Heather Locklear. She's doing a deliberate bad acting job to fit into the campy style. It may work better if they commit harder to make it campier. This style is unlikely to work.
adonis98-743-186503 The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object of affection. The Return of Swamp Thing was mostly made for 2 reason the first 2 Superman movies were a huge success the later 2 not that much but also 1989 was the year that the very first and best Batman movie was released in theaters so the studios said why don't we make a sequel to Swamp Thing from 1982? and they said why the hell not and so they made Swamp Thing 2 and the reviews for this movie have been awful and it has a 33% on Rotten Tomatoes higher than Batman V Superman and Suicide Squad yeah that happened and lower scores in IMDb than Superman III and Batman Forever. Is this movie campy? yes. Is it a bad movie? Nope sorry it's not Swamp Thing in this film looks amazing whatever you think in the Wes Craven version he looked like Christopher Lloyd meets The Grinch of Jim Carrey here he is muscular and looks kinda closer to the comics the acting is fine for a movie of this scale and the comedy it works far better than both Batman Forever and Robin and Superman III & IV way way better. Then there's this character called Gunn by Joey Sagal who is this campy, goofy character but he isn't as annoying as Richard Pryor was in Superman 3 not even close although his scene with that girl where they were showing each other their scars was kinda weird but not bad or anything. My biggest complaint was the scene where Abby thought she was kissing Alec Holland with his human form and felt like a porn movie really i didn't like that but overall this movie was way better than the first, it was campy but it was good, it had nice action, dialogue was fine, acting was fine, the 2 little kids were great and better than the kids in Jurassic World and there is even 2 fight scenes with a monster and the Swamp Thing and it was cool very cool i loved those scenes. Overall a great movie for what it is 10/10.