A sequel that delivers......death!

Rating: 8/10 (15 March 2003)

Brian Collins of Tipperary NAILED it! "The makers are giving the audience what they want!" Yes they are! Stupid? yeah, it is! so was the first! Intellectually stimulating? about as much so as "Judge Judy!" An entertaining movie? Hell Yes!
Dumbass comments like "All they did was rip off the first one!" Er thats what everyone went to see it for...hoping they DID!" They did it better too! Listen guys if this type of flick ain't your thing...why the hell go and see it? If you don't want to be confronted by gross-out deaths - go and watch LILO and STITCH, MILO AND OTIS...LAUREL AND HARDY! Personally, I LOVE gross-out deaths and this little flick DELIVERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The flick is worth seeing for the freeway accident alone. Arguably the most horrific thing ever seen in a movie bar NONE! I have never been a fan of laughable CGI fx.....this sequence however is as good as you're ever likely to see. It has the power to shut down an audiences senses just temporarily. Some people could be extremely upset and feel emotionally violated by this incredible piece of freeway violence. If you thought the "bus sequence" was scary in the first - close your eyes here!
I tend to agree that the film got sillier as it went on but the sheer creativity of the cast's demise held it together. A.J. Cook was quite excellent (and believable) as Kimberly...Ali Larter really was little more than padding and in the upshot hardly even relevant to the film. Why she receives top billing is a mystery? I also concede the repetitious attempts to link it to the first one grated after a while. The film and story hold up perfectly well on their own.
Question! HOW did the cast and crew keep a straight face when Kimberly delivered the all time classic line, "They're gonna be attacked by a flock of pigeons?"
I'd knock a star off too for the inappropriate and unnecessarily comical ending!