I'm striving to maintain a neutral tone here because I think that's the best way to deflate this silly, clever, disgusting and ultimately meaningless project to a reasonable scale.
– Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com,
7 Oct 2011
rotten:
Human Centipede 1 allowed for some lowball entertainment. Human Centipede 2 offers only sadism. Here's the best I can say about Tom Six: The man has managed to outdo himself, for better or for worse.
– Daniel Engber,
Slate,
7 Oct 2011
rotten:
The film is reprehensible, dismaying, ugly, artless and an affront to any notion, however remote, of human decency.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
8 Oct 2011
rotten:
All Six is going for, with the generous application of both hardware supplies to the skin and feces to the camera, is a tired commentary on his shallow talents: They're excremental.
– Wesley Morris,
Boston Globe,
13 Oct 2011
rotten:
In stark contrast to the original's cool, clinical horror, Martin's cack-handed creation of the arse-to-mouth creature is played for cheap, sick slapstick laughs.