One of my all time favorites.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Blistering performances.

The original 1958 movie "The Blob" is well known and admired to this very day. However, this (belated) sequel is all but unknown to the general public more than 40 years after it was first released, and it does not take long upon watching it to determine why. Much of the blame has to fall upon the writing, which producer Jack H. Harris contributed to. There are a number of essential details that are either never revealed at all or are quickly glossed over, like how a piece of the original blob made it out of the Arctic in the first place. The biggest blunder the writers make, however, is to try and make this particular blob rampage humorous. Well, actually upon thinking about it, it might have worked with enough care taken with this. But under the direction of Larry Hagman, the comedy comes across as forced, annoying, endless, and not the least bit funny despite the once in a lifetime cast he had control over. To be fair to Hagman, he was obviously working with a really low budget handed to him by Harris. Hagman probably didn't have the resources or time to pull off the comedy well. He certainly didn't have the resources or time to pull off the horror sequences with the blob, which are incredibly cheap and amateurish. I wonder why Harris didn't use more of the large amount of money he made with the original movie to beef up this sequel's budget. Maybe he too saw that the writing for this movie (which I earlier said that he contributed to) doomed its chances for big box office success.

*Spoiler/plot- Beware! Of the Blob, 1972. ('Son of Blob') A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers.*Special Stars- Robert Walker, Gwynne Gilford, Godfrey Cambridge, Carol Lindley, Shelley Berman, Richard Stahl, Larry Hagman, Richard Webb.*Theme- Some sequel are equal or better than the original if extra effort is exercised in production.*Trivia/location/goofs- Color. Film updated sequel to the 1953 Steve McQueen 'The Blob' movie. The enormous success of The Blob (1958) led producer Jack H. Harris to try to do a sequel, but the project had been shelved for many years. Larry Hagman, who owned the beach house next door to Harris, mentioned that he had never seen the original The Blob (1958). Harris showed Hagman his personal 16mm print of the film. Hagman showed such interest in doing a sequel that Harris resurrected the project. Hagman wound up directing this sequel and doing a small role in it as well. *Emotion- A good sci-fi sequel to the original film premise. The film with its updated special effects, great make-up and good casting make this film very watchable. This film's plot involving the proposed Alaskan pipeline of the time was clever and watchable. Very good comedic situations due to Larry Hagman's great comedic sense of humor. See it. *Based on- Outer Space alien and meteor fears.

(Yeah, this contains major spoilers. But, since this movie is older than me and I am older than most…people I know, then it's your bad for not seeing this Grindhouse movie by now…)When I was a kid, this scared the sh|t out of me. I'm talking: I was between 5-6 years old and it appeared on a Saturday morning TV Sci-Fi 12 noon (after the cartoons) program with the name "From Beyond…" or something like that.I invited my mother to watch this movie with me, which she normally didn't show interest, and she was disgusted. Later she told me – obviously being ignorant on who or what "the blob" was – that she thought it would be about a "blob" of smoke or something. Not the red goo the blob really is.To this day, roughly 32-33 years later, I have never forgotten Son of Blob, or Son of the Blob or as IMDb calls it: Beware! The Blob. (To me, it'll always be "Son of Blob" because that's how I remembered it three decades ago.) I haven't forgotten the fright it gave me, the ideas it brought up in my mind on how I would handle such a creature in real life or the nightmares of my daydreams it created.This viewing, as part of my "Last of my Triple Digit Reviews/Movies that Meant Something to my Childhood" series, made me realize only particular scenes, such as the entire opening of a fly, a kitten and two humans biting it, the car being engulfed, the bowling alley "hole" disaster and the final "?" scene, were implanted into my subconscious. The climax, the man with his foot propped up, led to many ideas in my little mind for many years.Oh, this movie's bad. Yeah, the filming, the dialogue, the separate tones and the special effects were all despicable. And that all said, this time, watching it late at night, I was scared all over again. Not because of the content, but because this, being the first time since I was a mere child, reminded me all what I viewed as an infant. Boy, I shouldn't have watched this late at night.I digress; this movie's supposed to be a sequel to the original 50s B-movie The Blob, but in reality, it's a remake. A red "single cell organism" is inadvertently set free and consumes any living flesh it makes contact with. In the set small town, few realize it until it's too late and less figure out its sole weakness.The ending had my young mind spinning into creativity. How would they get the frozen blob out of the bowling alley without it "waking up"? Or how would that man who last got attacked save his life…or leg? Or how would I ever forget the horror this brought to a 5-6-year-old for…the…rest…of…my…life?Overall, I granted this 1½/5 stars because of how bad it is. For me personally, it still scares me. Not enough to ever watch it again, unless I want to, again, recapture my childhood.And that's the way I see it. Cheers!

Since this is a direct sequel to the original Blob movie, this film picks up almost immediately where The Blob ended. A frozen piece of the Blob is accidentally allowed to thaw out and from there it eats, eats and eats some more until it reaches a climax similar to the famous cinema scene of the original. Only this time; it's a bowling alley.The main problem I have with this movie is that it doesn't deliver anything new really. It's just different characters, a different environment and a slightly different plot.If you really love the Blob and can't get enough; then this movie is for you. If you are not a Blob fan, you may not find much to enjoy in this movie.A mediocre, but slightly enjoyable film. I give it 6 out of 10 stars.