Better then the first? Hardly!

Rating: Null/10 (2 February 2003)

Were you people even watching the same movie?
The original was way creepy. The forshadowing to the deaths was much more effective. Yes, the death scenes in the second one were pretty gruesome, but that doesn't make it better.
Actually, I didn't mind it that much. It was pretty bad though. I thought the idea that everyone from the 2nd was somehow tied to the deaths of the first was lame. They really didn't need to make those connections to make a sequel. They could have simply made all the people in the second have some kind of brush with death without it being connected. It's called a concept sequel, but, like Blair Witch 2, it's obvious people don't understand concept sequels that well.
I don't like how the second one was such a comedy of errors, as a friend pointed out in the theatre. Everything in the second one seemed just thrown together instead of being well calculated like the first.
As I said, I enjoyed the second one for it's crap factor, as opposed to the first which I enjoyed because it was actually good. The second film just lacked the polish the first one had.