If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Featuring the delicious Kristy Swanson this film is a sequel to the quite popular film Mannequin. A queen in some ancient times is cursed with a necklace that transforms her into a statue and she is then somehow transported to the real world where she(the statue) is kept in a warehouse. A guy accidently takes off the necklace and she comes to life. This is a harmless fun kind of film although it was torn apart by critics on release. William Ragsdale(wonder why he never hit it big) is the main lead opposite Swanson and they make a sweet couple. Watch this if you have nothing better to do but it is cute.

I knew that this movie was likely to be crap. After all, it is a sequel to a b-80s comedy. But, I couldn't resist. I had to see Mesach Taylor, often a great, but underrated comic, in his performance as the dramatic Hollywood.In Mannequin 2, dudes are once again dating mannequins-turned-living-females. But this story has its roots in a fairy tale: a young maiden and a prince were intending to get married. But, the prince's mother, cautioning a social no-no (marriage of not only rich and poor, but royalty and poor), curses the young woman with a necklace that will keep her frozen for 1000 years or unless she can find a lover from another land.Fast forward to early 90s Philladelphia where the mannequin "peasant girl," now a traveling sideshow because of her precious jewels, has been shipped to the place where long distance relation of the prince and the long distant relation of the queen's minion will vie for the young girl's love. Although, the distant relative of the young prince has no idea that the transformation of the mannequin into a living being is far from coincidental. So, like something out of a Cars or ZZTop music video, the charming, but oblivious guy, with the help of the hilarious Hollywood (Mesach was about the only treat in this otherwise mundane comedy), will prove his chivalry for the girl as he faces off with the other jerk who wants her and knows about the curse.Its mundane comedy at best, but not because of the story. Rather, the thing that may have audiences flinching in discomfort (or boredom) is the corny dialog and ridiculous acting (details...why do the other's with relations to the past have German accents while Kristy Swanson only has it sporadically and only in the beginning of the film?) and a god awful soundtrack. The first one still offered a lot more laughs and chuckle romance, but if for nothing else, it's a valuable piece of time capsule entertainment because of Mesach Taylor.

This movie was almost as good as the original, and the story was a little more believable and more fleshed out than the first one's premise. But let's just leave it alone after this one. I don't think the world needs "Mannequin III: On the Surf".

You know where you stand with "Mannequin 2" early on, when you find out that the unfunniest character of the original has returned - and he has a bigger role to boot! The "romance" part of the film is still kind of sweet, but Ragsdale is no Andrew McCarthy, and Kristy Swanson, unlike Kim Cattrall, doesn't bring any personality to her character; she's beautiful but bland. In fact, that's the word that most accurately sums up the movie: bland. Its comic invention extends to "funny" accents, homosexual gags and chases in toy cars. If you like this sort of thing, go for it. (*1/2)