Ben
1972, PG, 94 min.
Directed by Phil Karlson, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O’Connell, Rosemary Murphy, Meredith Baxter.

This successor to the superntelligent rat movie Willard is not as scary or homicidally inclined as its predecessor – that’s if you’re not counting the creepy theme song by Michael Jackson.

This article appears in September 20 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.