Dennis the Menace Strikes Again
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| Directed by | Charles T. Kanganis |
| Produced by |
Robert Newmyer Jeffrey Silver |
| Written by |
Tim McCanlies Jeff Schechter |
| Based on |
Dennis the Menace by Hank Ketcham |
| 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 |
| Edited by | Jeffrey Reiner |
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Production
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Outlaw Productions
Hank Ketcham Enterprises |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Family Entertainment |
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Running time
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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 one.
Some years after the previous film, Dennis Mitchell (Justin Cooper) is worse than ever. At the beginning of the film, he goes over to Mr. Wilson's (Don Rickles) house to offer him some pets as gifts for his birthday. These include frogs, lizards, snakes, insects, tarantulas, scorpions, mice, exotic mammals, and even a baby alligator. 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 and Alice's father and Henry's father-in law (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. Dennis then reveals that he owns 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 with cotton candy mix that he mistook for soap. 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.
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