Good family fun!

Rating: 8/10 (29 January 2003)

Having seen the original "Final Destination", I was not expecting much from the sequel. But I had a free pass to a preview screening and a couple hours to kill and I felt like seeing a dumb movie. I had no idea what I was in for.
Maybe it was because I saw the first FD on tape, without a jazzed audience, but I would swear that FD2 whips it's dad's butt up and down the dark alley they would invariably meet in. I haven't felt an audience engaged with a flick like that in years. Sure, a lot of people were jeering teen Anakin in Episode 2, and those same people were cheering Yoda when he went off. FD2 elicited a sustained series of groans, laughs, and screams that was a beauty to behold.
Without giving anything away, those responses are well earned.
FD2 crosses the line over and over, making you cringe and squirm and laugh because you know it's going to happen all over again.
Anyone who has seen the trailer will not be surprised to find out that FD2 has one of the most over-the-top car crash sequences ever filmed. Having personally been in accidents numbering in the double-digits, I can say that this film made me more scared of automobiles than all of those accidents combined.
"Final Destination 2" may just be another stupid movie with a lot of blood and guts, but it seems to know that and it just wants to have a good time. It sees the potential in the great idea in the original and plays it out the way it should be played.
Go see it with a crowd on the weekend, and make sure you're in a rough hood where everyone is ready to see some of the grisliest deaths collected into one fast ride of a movie.