This sequel finds Ben and Junior moving and
making a fresh start in a town called Mortville, where Junior
meets his match in a diminutive demon named Trixie. With the
ratio of women to men 100 to 1, Ben finds himself the object
of much female attention. This displeases Junior, who doesn't
want to share his Dad, so Junior does his darndiest to
discourage each doting divorcee.
They're barely settled in their new home
when Ben, Sr. arrives with his pet dog, Nippy. It seems
Grandpa has suffered business reverses and needs a place to
stay. Nippy dislikes Junior and displays his "sentiments"
by urinating on Junior's toys. Junior in turn tries to sell
Nippy, but Grandpa retrieves his pet.
When the super-rich shrew, LaWanda, schemes
to make Ben husband number 7, Junior is desperate. He tries to
hypnotize Nippy into becoming an attack dog who will scare
LaWanda away. He fails when he puts Nippy into an irreversible
trance and Nippy is immobilized. (A fake dog was used for the
hypnotized Nippy.) What follows is a series of low humored
events as Junior tries to scuttle his Dad's impending marriage
to LaWanda.
All it takes to snap Nippy out of his trance
are a few sniffs of the aroma of some irresistible dog chow.
Two horses are seen briefly as part of a bridal procession.
The trained horses rear on cue.
Junior deliberately sabotages a dinner
prepared by LaWanda by emptying his live cockroach collection
into the food. All hell breaks loose when roaches are
discovered in everything, in their salad, in their dishes, and
running across the table. Both Ben, Jr. and Ben, Sr. swat at
the roaches and Ben, Jr. falls across the table on his
backside, with roaches running in all directions, and with
some roaches being smashed in the process.
The animal action involving the dog and
horses was handled with exceptional care for the animals and
in accordance with American Humane's guidelines. However, a
different wrangler was brought in for the roach scenes.
Against our opposition, the bug sequence was filmed in such a
manner that some roaches were killed. Because the bug action
was unacceptable, we are giving this movie a dual rating. The
animal action is being rated "Acceptable" and the
insect action "Unacceptable".
