This terribly amateurish and totally redundant sequel to the classic Steve McQueen movie "The Blob" is somewhat enjoyable, but ONLY if you have a high tolerance for irredeemably bad B-movies. There aren't many links with the original film (apart that it plays on TV at one moment), the budget was even tinier this time and most of the time the script appears to be penned down by a kindergarten class. Just listen to the abysmal choice of music or some of the dialogs: "Oh Chester, you really are dingeling!" What the hell? Anyways, a construction worker brings back a sample of frozen blob from his last working trip to Antartica apparently he builds pipelines there and his nagging wife accidentally thaws it. The interstellar jello pudding rapidly increases in size as it feeds on cute little cats and simple minded country folks. I never even knew there was a sequel to "The Blob", but at least now I understand why it's such a well-kept secret. It's a movie put together by weirdos! Moreover, the biggest weirdo is the guy in the director's chair and he even became a huge TV-phenomenon during the 80's by starring as J.R. in the legendary soap "Dallas". Unbelievable! Especially since it looks like he was in a constant state of drunkenness while making this film. Once the blob escapes from its jar, it only consumes the oddest people imaginable, like hippies that think it's normal to pay 400 Dollar for a regular haircut, voyeuristic coppers and fat naked guys that enjoy taking a bath with their dog! The only reasonable explanation would be that director JR Hagman absolutely HATED the original and exclusively intended to ridicule it by spawning a demented sequel. There sure is strange stuff to find out there in obscure movie land, but it's probably for the best that you just never search for them...
Review of Beware! The Blob
