Dennis the Menace Strikes Again

Dennis the Menace Strikes Again
Directed by	Charles T. Kanganis
Produced by	Robert Newmyer Jeffrey Silver
Written by	Tim McCanlies Jeff Schechter
Starring	Justin Cooper Don Rickles George Kennedy Betty White Brian Doyle-Murray Carrot Top Dwier Brown Heidi Swedberg
Music by	Graeme Revell
Cinematography	Christopher Faloona
Editing by	Jeffrey Reiner
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	July 14, 1998
Running time	71 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Dennis the Menace Strikes Again (Also known as: Dennis 2: Dennis Strikes Again) is a 1998 direct-to-video sequel to the 1993 theatrical feature Dennis the Menace. It was produced by Outlaw Productions and released by Warner Bros. on July 14, 1998.

None of the cast from the first film appear in this sequel.

Plot

Dennis Mitchell (Justin Cooper) is finally back, and worse than ever. At the beginning of the movie, he goes over to Mr. Wilson's (Don Rickles) house to offer him one of several gifts for his birthday. These include lizards, snakes, bugs, and other creatures. This ordeal ends with Mr. Wilson unintentionally riding down a flight of stairs in Dennis' red wagon and accidentally getting his birthday cake thrown in his face by Martha (Betty White). Soon after this incident, Mr. Johnson, Dennis' grandfather (George Kennedy), shows up and announces that he is moving in with the Mitchells. Dennis starts spending more time with him than his annoyed neighbor. Mr. Wilson, upset that he's getting older, gets tricked by two con men (Brian Doyle-Murray and Carrot Top) who try to talk him into buying a "rare" root used to make tea to make people younger.

Mr. Wilson is about to pay $10,000 when Dennis comes by and turns out to own a root of the same kind, which he says he found on a place where those abound. Soon afterwards, the two impostors return and sell Mr. Wilson a machine that allegedly makes people younger. Suddenly, the attitudes of him and Mr. Johnson reverse as the latter feels George's pain of living in the same neighborhood as Dennis, while he starts to feel youthful and happy.

While Dennis is trying to clean up a pile of garbage that he accidentally threw on Grandpa's car while he was taking out the trash, he accidentally destroys Mr. Wilson's machine. As a result of this, the Wilsons plan on moving away to be away from him for good, whereupon Mr. Johnson decides to move into their house, although no one seems to really want to carry out this plan.

The film closes with Dennis helping the police (unintentionally) catching the con men, who were pretending to be several different workmen at the Wilson house when they were planning to move, attempting yet again to drain his bank account by stockpiling a hoard of his as yet unendorsed checks by claiming that the house needed several repairs before it could be sold. Dennis, who was a "menace" throughout the whole movie, ends up being a hero. The police return the uncashed checks, and Mr. Wilson decides not to move. Mr. Johnson, however, is now planning to move out of the Mitchell house because of everything Dennis has put him through.

Cast

• Justin Cooper as Dennis Mitchell
• Don Rickles as George Wilson
• Betty White as Martha Wilson
• George Kennedy as Mr. Johnson
• Brian Doyle-Murray as Professor
• Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson as Sylvester
• Dwier Brown as Henry Mitchell
• Heidi Swedberg as Alice Mitchell
• Keith Reece as Gunther
• Jacqueline Steiger as Margaret
• Danny Turner as Joey
• Alexa Vega as Gina

External links

• Dennis the Menace Strikes Again at the Internet Movie Database
• Dennis the Menace Strikes Again at AllRovi
• Dennis the Menace Strikes Again at Rotten Tomatoes