Second verse same as the first but worse.

Rating: 2/10 (26 January 2011)

King of high cinema kitsch Quentin Tarantino's second installment of things I stole from Sergio Leone and Bruce Lee and tarted up with a big budget is amazingly even worse than his first act of cannibalism. There's the same torpid pace, solemn goof ball rhetoric and the endless close-ups of bug eyed Uma Thurman looking determined all painted in three coats of red. And if the last one wasn't slow enough there's an extra twenty minutes on this one to put you into an even deeper sleep. It's Slower Pussycat, Bore, Bore.
Ah, yes the plot. Somewhere in a parallel universe Clint Eastwood sex change Beatrix Kiddo takes up where she left off in her last hell bent crusade to exact revenge upon the indelicate crowd that made a mess of her wedding day. Facing some of the same cartoon characters from the first installment bridezilla runs into more than a share of rough patches (yes me lads an ladies Elle Driver is back) but it is more than clear from the twinkle in Kiddo's bulbous orb it's gonna take a lot more than a blast to the chest from a shot gun filled with rock salt and being buried alive to neutralize this righteous dudessa.
Bill 2 is filled with Tarantino's typical smug sadism (it's all his characters seem to live for) and poor taste in music score lifting. There's the grindingly slow pace, the inept self indulgent use of film grammar (lotsa commas and capital letters) and as always the sentimental wallowing in vapid low budget nostalgia. It's the type of garbage that was third on the bill at the drive in back in the 70s when you were trying to get as much face time in with your date before you had to take her home ( "Of course it's late, it was a triple feature."). The only difference is that hipster auteur Tarantino has enough cash to spray paint it with a high gloss metallic lacquer that in this day and age gets gobbled up by a moronic generation raised on computer game violence with a reference point that stretches back as far as 1990. Can't wait for the third installment.