I have to admit that I have seen so many movies, I can't remember if I saw the original "Dream a Little Dream" movie before watching this sequel. If I didn't, I suspect that I was not missing much judging from this movie. Being that this was made by the CineTel movie company, it comes as no surprise that the movie looks pretty cheap and tacky. However, the production values are just a minor quibble compared to the real problems in the movie. The script is pretty awful - the story feels very long and padded out to a ridiculous extreme. Curiously, the second half of the movie pretty much eliminates Corey Haim's character altogether, though this may have been intentional considering the private problems Haim was having even back then. There are also a number of unanswered questions, like how the bad guys found out about the magic sunglasses in the first place. And while the movie seems to have been aimed at the Coreys' youth audience, there are some elements in the story (violence, sexual material) that seem inappropriate for non-adults. The movie is more of a nightmare than anything else.
Review of Dream a Little Dream 2
