A Groovy Sequel

Rating: 8/10 (3 November 2019)

Scream 2 obviously isn't as amazing like the first film was, but it still managed to be a sequel that did a great job of continuing on from the first film.
Scream 2 is about a movie called Stab (a film based off the events of the first movie) that premieres one night, and two college students get murdered. This then triggers Sidney (Neve Campbell) as she is being tracked down from a killer that is trying to be a copycat. With the help of Dewey (David Arquette), Gale (Courtney Cox) and Randy (Jamie Kennedy), they must find out who this killer is before they end up dead.
Scream 2 was solid to watch. It had a pretty good plot with is creative twists. I liked how this time around a killer wanted to copy things and haunt everyone again. This is also the longest Scream film in the series, and pacing wise, it had a pretty smooth pace.
The cast was great. Campbell, Arquette, Cox, and Kennedy come back to deliver some really smooth performances. The new actors did a very good job as well. Liev Schreiber plays Cotton Weary who was the accused murderer of Sidney's mother. Jerry O' Connell plays Derek, who is Sidney's new boyfriend. Sarah Michelle Gellar as Cici, one of the victims the killer goes after. Lastly, Jada Pinkett, who is one of the two victims killed at the Stab premiere.
There were only two issues I had with the film. The first is Randy being killed off in a pretty dumb way. I liked the character of Randy, but they decided to have him be killed inside of a van in broad daylight. I thought that was incredibly frivolous.
The other issue I had was the killer reveal. There are two killers again, and one of them is a character named Mickey (Timothy Olyphant). This is a character we barely saw and barely knew of, and his reason was just to become famous in the media. So, to have him as one of the killers is pretty pointless. However, that does get fixed as you find out the other killer is Billy Loomis' mother. She wanted to get revenge for the death of her son, so she set everything up and was working with Mickey in order to get back at Sidney.
These two flaws don't necessarily destroy the film though. The first one could be ignored and the second one was fixed. So, at the end of the day, Scream 2 was an enjoyable continuation of the Scream saga.