Was never going to be a great movie to be honest

Rating: 3/10 (25 October 2013)

Warning – Spoilers ahead! "Insidious 2" was never going to be a great movie to be honest. Not that everyone loved the original, but those that did (Like me) liked it because it had a lot going on in it. It seemed seriously scary because there were at least a few movies worth of scares rolled into the one film. Were they really going to have enough left over for another one? Well, of course not!
This sequel does once again have a lot going on in it, but none of it works. There's Patrick Wilson doing his best "Shining" bit, a couple of different ghosts that need a back story for some reason, a weird choice to turn one of the spooks from the first film into "Norman Bates," time-travelling? and a couple of bits simply copied and pasted from "Insidious 1." There's also a lot of the usual toys rolling around, and loud bangs which lead to nothing, as you'd probably expect from a movie in which a family is terrorised by ghosts. Even though its happened to them before though, they still feel the need to go and investigate the said mysterious noises.
Needless to say you will be completely lost if you haven't seen the first film, which you should be watching anyway seeing as its a million times better than this. If you can get past the fact that this family has knowingly moved into an equally haunted house to get over what happened in the first film, you will still be disappointed with the all-over-the-place feel, confusing plot, and lack of scares. I'm sorry to say that its even more un-intentionally hilarious than it is scary. Yes this was a hard one to pull off so perhaps they shouldn't of tried.
Overall, it tries way to hard to be clever, when all I wanted it to be was straight forward scary. Very disappointing. Maybe they should of waited a couple more years to make something worthy, instead of spewing out this mess.