Once again I am reviewing an unrated DVD for a movie I never saw the rated version of because Fox Atomic didn't screen it for critics in Seattle. So this means I can't tell you what is added in and if it really matters. However, this thing starts off with a rather disgusting scene. You see the mutants are using the women they capture to reproduce, which means we are greeted to a straining woman as she gives birth to a mutant baby. But, instead of giving birth this baby is basically crawling out and it isn't a pretty picture and is hardly an image I would have asked for. But hey, that is what we are here for right? Gross out moments and dead humans.
If I were to draw comparisons to the first film I would say that the characters on both side of the playing field are certainly less interesting. The humans are terrible in both the acting and character building departments and the mutants just don't have the charisma those in the first film had, that is if it is possible to have charisma as a mutant.
On a whole The Hills Have Eyes II is as plain and simple as it can get, but that doesn't mean horror fans won't enjoy it once around, even if you can tell what is going to happen long before it actually does.
As for the special features on the disc they include some crummy deleted scenes, a goofy gag reel, an alternate ending, a making of featurette and a look at the graphic novel that tells the prequel story of The Hills Have Eyes called "The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning." The graphic novel is referred to as "gross out done with style". I am not sure if that is possible, but what the hell do I know? Finally there is a Fox Movie Channel special with Wes Craven in which he compares the movie to our troops in Iraq, a bit of a stretch if you ask me. Does that mean the mutants are the Iraqis?
Overall this is a rental at best and only for the horror fans out there. If you enjoy horror on a casual level you may find this one interesting, but it is a crapshoot. It depends on how much you look for logic and get pissed off when characters take the inevitable left when going right is obviously the better way to go.