Good Follow up

Rating: 9/10 (18 August 2006)

This film is a decent follow up to the 1996 original. The reason this one is even half as good as the first one is because of returning director Wes Craven, and the cast of course who all graciously returned. The most disappointing thing about this film was the death of Jamie Kennedy's character Randy Meeks who I loved. After seeing the first Scream my life was forever touched by the lovable rants of Randy. I live my life by his teachings and still to this day shed a tear when I think of his demise. He was more than just a character to me, he was like family. When I was sitting in the dark lonely theater back in December 1997 watching this I shrieked in terror as the blade went into Randy and ended the magic that was his character. I was ticked. The film has it's moments though. I love the evolution of Sydney Prescot and think they took her in the right direction. I hate the fact that Courtney Cox and David Arqette survived this outing. i thought is was placeable in the first one but outrageous in this one. The over all dark town of this film seemed to jive well with the continuation of the first one's more pastel look. Don't think I do not like this movie, because I do. It like the first one defined who I am and I could never complain about that as I like me. I just feel this film could have let Randy live an had Dewey and Gail die.