Blamire does provide some entertaining one-liners including some by the Lost Skeleton who returns again to haunt the twin brother of the main character from the first film and engages in some ridiculous murder sequences that are cause for laughter until Blamire drags the joke in to the ground by featuring some interrogations on the skeleton whose own knack for over the top dialogue can become pretty grating even for the most patient devotee to these niche films that pay homage to the science fiction cheese of the forty and fifties. The skeleton this time plays second fiddle to much of the barrage of overdrawn gags and instead of becoming a maguffin and wacky source for nostalgia to the classic science fiction cheese he feels much more like an annoyance, especially when we learn mid-way that this group's whole trek may end up benefiting him and his means. When not engaging in fights with rubber monsters that aren't as funny as they could be, or exchanging redundant dialogue that could be much funnier, the whole film really is much too long. With a tighter script and fifteen minutes chopped off, it may have been better than the original by a mile. I know I wanted it to be when I was done with it.

Director Larry Blamire's "The Lost Skeleton Returns Again" has potential to be much better than the original mini-cult hit, but in the end it tries much too hard to top its first act by hurling jokes at us that go on too long, are dragged through the dirt, or just aren't funny, all the while writing a sequel that could be much shorter and twice more effective if allowing the cast to improvise much more. Fact is, when you spend time trying to be entertained than just letting the film entertain you, odds are the movie just isn't doing its job.