Unlike the lame first sequel Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (1988), this one goes back to having tomatoes doing silly things. There are some rather amusing shots with tomatoes swinging into rooms to conduct commando raids, ninja tomatoes throwing shurikens, and tomato bars where various tomato lowlifes gather to smoke, drink and play pool. There are moments when the film rises to actually being quite funny. There is an amusing parody of the Psycho (1960) shower scene where the heroine bursts into screams, only for us to discover that she is reacting to having run out of shampoo and only having a sliver of soap and then a pullback from the trickle of red going down the plughole to reveal that it is coming from a squashed tomato. Possibly the funniest sequence is the opening, which has the heroine being pursued by a masked, chainsaw-wielding maniac and then stumbling to realize, “Thank God, I thought it was a killer tomato,” only to turn and be faced with a horde of tomatoes all wearing hockey masks. It’s an amusing even if not a particularly good film. The film also improves on its predecessors by using some reasonably decent special effects to create the tomatoes, although the tomatoes are clearly not particularly mobile in wider shots.

The other Killer Tomatoes films are:– Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978), Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (1988) and Killer Tomatoes Eat France (1992). The idea was also spun out as an amusing animated children’s series – Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1990-93).