No charm here

Rating: 4/10 (26 May 2013)

They should have stopped after 1, though 2 was not terrible. This one, however, was simply a way of sucking more money out of the series, and they got some of ours (though fortunately at matinée prices). There are some laughs, but not nearly as many as you'd expect, and they've turned Chow into too significant a character. He was much funnier in the shorter role in the original. They've also put too much emphasis on the suspense portion of the plot (an it's not particularly suspenseful at that). Alan's character moves from being that of a naive innocent to something far crueler and darker, which I didn't enjoy either. The funniest part of the movie, and the one that takes you back to the appeal of the original, occurs after the credits start to roll, so don't run out in disgust once they do.
If you really want to see how the series ends, save yourself some cash and wait for the video release. Wish we had spent out money on something else.