Even worse the second time around.

Rating: 2/10 (6 May 2010)

"Scream 2" is a movie that asks you to believe another serial killer has targeted young Sidney Prescott (survivor of the first film, and now a college student). If this weren't enough to swallow, her high school friend and fellow survivor from the first film, Randy, conveniently goes to the same university. And wouldn't you know it, along come the other remaining survivors, so now everyone can play along in another round of the same old game. How convenient, eh? Once again, the killer is able to accomplish many things by seemingly pure, blind luck (only in the movies). The opening of the film is a laughable exercise of a series of implausible events that lead to the first deaths in the movie, kick-starting an entire series of conveniences for the killer to do his work aided as if by the gods of Hollywood themselves. Characters manage to get into situations that would only happen in the movies, and the killer is presented with opportunities to chase our poor survivors down school corridors and alleys, all making great scenes that belong right in a movie, yet ironically the characters are self-aware of all the clichés even when they are a part of them.