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Ginger Snaps: Unleashed (Brett Sullivan)
"Does it live up to the original?"
Tell me why it's called Ginger Snaps again, she already did, isn't it Brigitte's turn? This movie continues the story from the first one, so it helps if you've seen the original. Where does this movie go? Who knows, it doesn't keep in track very well with the whole werewolf thing till the last 15-20 minutes of the film. Ghost seems to be more of the main character than Brigitte is in this one, which is sad because her character is boring and inane. Ginger is hardly there and it seems like she is only there to get more people in the seats...damn eye candy. She serves no other function than narrator. Sad, because Katharine Isabelle is a good actress, but you wouldn't know it here. Brigitte's character has become smarter and stronger, as has Emily Perkins's acting.
It was never explained where the male werewolf came from that was trying to mate with Brigitte, though it was a neat idea, much like the link of a woman's cycle with werewolves in the first one. Was the male werewolf Jason? Was it Sam? We will never know...we are never given a back story of an idea if this virus is going to get out of hand, or if Brigitte and the male werewolf are the only ones in existence.
The story is interesting, but don't expect the character development and plot of the first one. Here, most of the characters beyond Ghost and Brigitte are 2-D, the girls in the institute are annoying and sexual playthings for Tyler, never going beyond that, Tyler himself is the typical scumbag aide who shoots girls up in exchange for sex (very unlike the character of Sam in the first one, who is a drug dealer, but has a very honorable smart side to him that comes out), Alice is a typical instructor who really doesn't do anything but serve as a plot device, coming in here and there, so Ghost won't be left alone. Even the male werewolf is just there, he is there to be killed. That's all.
You don't have the sympathy you have in the first one when, for instance, Sam is killed. You feel bad because you learn he is a good guy deep down and you feel like you know him by the end. I for one, loved the original Ginger Snaps because it was unconventional, the characters were deep, the violence only when needed, a whole neat idea about women's periods being linked to werewolves, two strong female leads and an ending that was scary and sad at the same time. Not too many films do that!
This movie, lacks emotion and trys to copy the same ending in emotion, but onyl half heartly gets there.
5/10
"Does it live up to the original?"
Tell me why it's called Ginger Snaps again, she already did, isn't it Brigitte's turn? This movie continues the story from the first one, so it helps if you've seen the original. Where does this movie go? Who knows, it doesn't keep in track very well with the whole werewolf thing till the last 15-20 minutes of the film. Ghost seems to be more of the main character than Brigitte is in this one, which is sad because her character is boring and inane. Ginger is hardly there and it seems like she is only there to get more people in the seats...damn eye candy. She serves no other function than narrator. Sad, because Katharine Isabelle is a good actress, but you wouldn't know it here. Brigitte's character has become smarter and stronger, as has Emily Perkins's acting.
It was never explained where the male werewolf came from that was trying to mate with Brigitte, though it was a neat idea, much like the link of a woman's cycle with werewolves in the first one. Was the male werewolf Jason? Was it Sam? We will never know...we are never given a back story of an idea if this virus is going to get out of hand, or if Brigitte and the male werewolf are the only ones in existence.
The story is interesting, but don't expect the character development and plot of the first one. Here, most of the characters beyond Ghost and Brigitte are 2-D, the girls in the institute are annoying and sexual playthings for Tyler, never going beyond that, Tyler himself is the typical scumbag aide who shoots girls up in exchange for sex (very unlike the character of Sam in the first one, who is a drug dealer, but has a very honorable smart side to him that comes out), Alice is a typical instructor who really doesn't do anything but serve as a plot device, coming in here and there, so Ghost won't be left alone. Even the male werewolf is just there, he is there to be killed. That's all.
You don't have the sympathy you have in the first one when, for instance, Sam is killed. You feel bad because you learn he is a good guy deep down and you feel like you know him by the end. I for one, loved the original Ginger Snaps because it was unconventional, the characters were deep, the violence only when needed, a whole neat idea about women's periods being linked to werewolves, two strong female leads and an ending that was scary and sad at the same time. Not too many films do that!
This movie, lacks emotion and trys to copy the same ending in emotion, but onyl half heartly gets there.
5/10