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 Heidi Swedberg Alexa Vega Jacqueline Steiger
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
Preceded by	Dennis the Menace
Followed by	A Dennis the Menace Christmas

Dennis the Menace 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.

Like many direct-to-video sequels, it retains none of the cast from the first film.

Plot

Dennis Mitchell is back, and worse than ever. At the beginning of the movie, his maternal grandfather (Kennedy) moves in, and therefore Dennis starts spending more time with him than his annoyed neighbor, George Wilson (Rickles). Mr. Wilson, upset that he's getting older, gets tricked by two con men (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 dollars when Dennis comes by and turns out to own a root of the same kind, which he says he found on a place where these roots abound. Soon afterwards, the two impostors return and sell Mr. Wilson a machine that allegedly makes people younger. Suddenly, the attitudes of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Johnson (Dennis' grandfather) reverse as Johnson feels George's pain of living in the same neighborhood as Dennis.

Trying to fix an earlier mishap, Dennis accidentally destroys Wilson's machine. As a result of this, the Wilsons plan on moving away to be away from Dennis for good, whereupon 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 the Wilsons were planning to move, attempting yet again to drain Mr. Wilson's bank account by stockpiling a hoard of his, as-yet, un-endorsed checks. Dennis, who was a "menace" throughout the whole movie, ends up a hero, the police return the uncashed checks, and Mr. Wilson decides not to move away. Mr. Johnson, however, is now planning to move out of the Mitchell house because of everything Dennis has put him through.

Attic Mishaps

During a reminiscent flashback montage sequence, an oblivious Mr. Wilson ascends his attic stairs, only to become victim to Dennis' disastrous playtime activities: the man gets hit on the head by an oncoming bowling ball, his forehead becomes the bullseye of a slingshot marble, and he gets a hockey puck jammed into his mouth. Towards the end of the story, Mr. Wilson is accidentally pushed out the attic window by the other children, and hangs precariously from one of the window shutters.

Cast

• Don Rickles as George Wilson
• George Kennedy as Grandpa
• Justin Cooper as Dennis 'The Menace' Mitchell
• Betty White as Martha Wilson
• Brian Doyle-Murray as Professor
• Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson as Sylvester (Self)
• 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 IMDB
• Dennis the Menace Strikes Again at Allmovie
• Dennis the Menace Strikes Again at Rotten Tomatoes