Not up to the original

Rating: 5/10 (9 July 2001)

This sequel (to a movie that promised "no sequel") opens with an uproarious parody of "The Exorcist" (with James Woods) then goes downhill fast. The "plot" has a bunch of college students (four returnees from the original--never mind that they died--and three untalented others) spending the weekend in a haunted house for some reason or another. They get to the house, the plot goes out the window and it's a non-stop barrage of crude humor and countless parodies of other movies. The big problems with this movie is the plot ceases to make sense halfway through, there are more bad jokes than good ones and the cast members are either annoying (Tori Spelling and especially Chris Elliot) or wasted (Tim Curry--why Tim?). The jokes do ocassionally work, but this seems much longer than 80 minutes. Too bad--the opening was so good.