Not nearly as good as Willard but a worthy sequel. Seeing a young Mrs. Keaton a bonus.

Pretty lousy, corny and ludicrous follow up to Willard. Doesn't help that the main kid is irritating. Tame effects, bad acting, ridiculous plot. To think, this thing almost had an Oscar for that song by Michael Jackson. lol

What I game "Willard" as a bonus on top of my rating, I cannot give to Ben as well, because everything done in "Ben" was already was done once in its predecessor. The big problem: The predecessor is better at it in all aspects:

The Acting was mediocre and I cannot point out any actor that was as interesting in their performance as where Bruce Davison or Ernest Borgnine. Also the characters motivation is really strange - knowing what has happened it is in no way conceivable that the boy hides the rat and even keeps the incredible dangerous looking "base" a secret, while his sister even covers for him?

Story is nothing special as well with no surprises what so ever. Also it seemed that there where a lot more special effects, the rats looked somehow off, when there where larger numbers of them. This is what a bad sequel looks like, and despite it being younger it feels like being the older one, with worse quality and production value.