A Good Sequel!

Rating: 8/10 (31 August 2005)

Not as good as the first, but almost. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette return in "Scream 2". Sidney and Randy (Jamie Kennedy) have left Woodsboro, and attend college together only to be suspects in a murder rampage when "Stab" opens. Everyone becomes a suspect and the gore is all over the place. Jada Pinkett Smith is a great performance in the opening scene, but the best scene in the whole film goes to Sarah Michelle Gellar. Gellar stands out as always as the doomed CiCi Cooper. "Do you want to die tonight CiCi?" Doesn't it just give you chills? Gellar's performance is the best death scene in the whole "Scream" trilogy, second only to Drew Barrymore in the original. Timothy Olphant and Laurie Metcalf are excellent killers. I never in a million years would have suspected Metcalf was Billy Loomis' mother. Shocker!!!