Gets way too convoluted and complicated

Rating: 3/10 (14 June 2015)

One of the main reasons I really liked the original Insidious was the overall simplicity of it. Basically it was a low budget haunted house movie that had a creepy atmosphere through great makeup and practical setups. The story was pretty simple and executed greatly. And now we get this mess of a movie. Insidious two takes the two things I didn't like about the first one and makes them even worse. The first thing, the unnecessary, predictable jump scares that add nothing to the plot and are simply just annoying as hell are many in this movie. Things like raising the volume when a baby cart starts moving is just flat out annoying. And that is just one of the 10 examples I have in my head right now of stupid jump scares. The other thing: I thought the original Insidious was flawed cause the main idea of the movie was kinda borrowed from Poltergeist..In Insidious: Chapter Two, the ending feels like a lamer version of The Shining. The clichéd dialogue and rushed scenes add nothing good to the story either. I hated the subplot in this movie: Instead of focusing on the family like they did in the original, they shift focus to this other thing in which the mother of Patrick Wilson's character tries to find out what is going on with the ghosts and trying to communicate with Elise, who died in the first one. Wan clearly tries to give the Insidious story some more depth, but all this does is over complicate things. There are some cool parts in this movie, though and I can't really complain about Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne who were great in this one. The scene where Rose Byrne's character sees the woman in white singing "Row your boat" and then disappears just to hear her on the baby monitor finishing the song..."merrily merrily merrily..." was just awesome. But in the end Insidious: Chapter 2 is bigger, but definitely not better.