Just wanted to give a nice, little review, that's all

Rating: Null/10 (24 October 2003)

NOT! I am here to trash all over "Scream 2" and the myriad of movies just like it. (Please note that "Scream" part one is still a good movie if you can try to forget the awfulness of sequels like this and tons of rip-offs, and their sequels, too!) Alright, first of all: The writing was pretty stale by this entry because "Scream" part one was so big that within a year or so this self-referentiality stuff was already devoid of its once clever flair. (And, just to make the fact known, there were many self-referential horror movies done before "Scream", meaning Wes Craven really did nothing new.) Next: The one really fun character left from part one was Jamie Kennedy's character, the video geek that all of us horror-obsessed video geeks could relate to. He gets offed halfway through the movie after making one of the only clever jokes in this entire mess. I'm sure Craven did this to be unpredictable and shock audiences by depicting the death of a character they cared about. Why didn't that stuck-up, "capitalist-with-a-heart-of-gold" character of Courtney Cox's get offed? I guess Craven couldn't please everybody, but it was a pretty bad idea no matter how many critics said he was being "hip and smart". Reason number three comin' up: The ending was not a stunning surprise like in the first film. It seemed almost as if Craven tacked on some lackluster footage at the last minute (which is pretty believable when you consider the fact that he wrote a few different endings to this). Yes, this is just another "Friday the 13th" sequel, except without the gore and sleazy nudity that kept those films from being totally dull. So the next time someone who praises crap like this out the wazoo is about to trash on a much better low-budget film, remember that the budget is not what makes a movie good. Just as Jello from the Dead Kennedys criticized the MTV "culture" in that band's classic song "MTV Get Off the Air", what are you people? Accountants or movie fans?