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JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 (Victor Salva)
"A New Horror Monster Chokes After One Sequel"
Set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team's bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy.
The story opens in a corn field as a boy is doing his chores tending to the scarecrows and what not, which aren't working very well. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eyes, he sees one of the Scarecrows move... Not too subtly by the creeper we find out later... Why is it in horror movies, they just stand their like a dummy waiting for the thing to take off for them? Isn't this suppose to be the new millenium for horror?
I actually liked the first film better, in terms of horror, because Jeepers Creepers 2 is practically absent with the element of horror. Instead, it is replaced with a fair amount of action scenes. The film's story is more than the typical monster movie, and it avoids the typical cliché of a sequel that's that same as the first. The plot is almost completely redone, but still isn't that good. The greatest part of the film, is the villian, The Creeper, but when I saw those blue eyes (Didn't darry have brown?) I laughed. Mostly throughout the entire movie I was laughing, but not with it, more of the at it manner.
Also what was with the flying, way too much flying, and in some scenes it looked like he flew off into space. Whether it was just poorly done CGI, or it was called for in the script, do we really need to be looking at it? The script is loaded with stupid clichés, unneeded moments, the clichéd and stereotypical characters, and cheesy moments. There really isn't a main character in the movie, liked the first film.
The first film had two main characters, but this one does not. Like I said, the film has unneeded moments, such as the character of Minxie learning the origins of the creepers. The sub plot revolves around a farmer who is on a personal mission to hunt down and kill the Creeper because it took his son. The corn field scene was entertaining, especially when the Creeper was on the scarecrow stand. Also, this is a horror movie, and it has little or no blood whatsoever. What's the deal, you'd expect a movie about a creature who devours bodily organs to have some gore. The most graphic scene was when a teen had his head completely ripped off after the wing of the Creeper trapped him inside it. The scene wasn't bloody, or violent. The Creeper's make-up looks a little cartoonish, but still maintains that style.
I have to give the film props for the head scene though, great stuff from the creepers, ripping off it's own head then growing back another one. Then again the movie also pissed me off with half the teens running away then never being heard from again. Did the writer just simply forget about them, how can you forget a dozen or so characters? The truck being trashed up beyond belief, then saving the day in the next scene. When the truck exploded, did the driver die or not?? I remember him climbing out and crawling away, but then nothing, so I'm just going to assume he bit the dust. The creeper chasing the black guy with only one leg, pathetic. Like I mentioned before too much flying, and too much of the creeper. He should of kept his mystic...or little that he had left from the original.
This movie was more action/suspense/comedy then horror. I only remember jumping at one scene, the dream scene with DARRY. Now that were on that subject, the dream sequences were too unbelievable. Why is she having them??? How does she know everything about the creeper after she knows it eats people?
All the characters I hated and wanted to die, no one in this movie can act.With the exception of the father, who gave an average performance, but when average is a highlight, you know your in a bad film. Also what was with that part with the knife flying out of the fathers hand like that. Still don't understand that one.
4/10
"A New Horror Monster Chokes After One Sequel"
Set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team's bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy.
The story opens in a corn field as a boy is doing his chores tending to the scarecrows and what not, which aren't working very well. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eyes, he sees one of the Scarecrows move... Not too subtly by the creeper we find out later... Why is it in horror movies, they just stand their like a dummy waiting for the thing to take off for them? Isn't this suppose to be the new millenium for horror?
I actually liked the first film better, in terms of horror, because Jeepers Creepers 2 is practically absent with the element of horror. Instead, it is replaced with a fair amount of action scenes. The film's story is more than the typical monster movie, and it avoids the typical cliché of a sequel that's that same as the first. The plot is almost completely redone, but still isn't that good. The greatest part of the film, is the villian, The Creeper, but when I saw those blue eyes (Didn't darry have brown?) I laughed. Mostly throughout the entire movie I was laughing, but not with it, more of the at it manner.
Also what was with the flying, way too much flying, and in some scenes it looked like he flew off into space. Whether it was just poorly done CGI, or it was called for in the script, do we really need to be looking at it? The script is loaded with stupid clichés, unneeded moments, the clichéd and stereotypical characters, and cheesy moments. There really isn't a main character in the movie, liked the first film.
The first film had two main characters, but this one does not. Like I said, the film has unneeded moments, such as the character of Minxie learning the origins of the creepers. The sub plot revolves around a farmer who is on a personal mission to hunt down and kill the Creeper because it took his son. The corn field scene was entertaining, especially when the Creeper was on the scarecrow stand. Also, this is a horror movie, and it has little or no blood whatsoever. What's the deal, you'd expect a movie about a creature who devours bodily organs to have some gore. The most graphic scene was when a teen had his head completely ripped off after the wing of the Creeper trapped him inside it. The scene wasn't bloody, or violent. The Creeper's make-up looks a little cartoonish, but still maintains that style.
I have to give the film props for the head scene though, great stuff from the creepers, ripping off it's own head then growing back another one. Then again the movie also pissed me off with half the teens running away then never being heard from again. Did the writer just simply forget about them, how can you forget a dozen or so characters? The truck being trashed up beyond belief, then saving the day in the next scene. When the truck exploded, did the driver die or not?? I remember him climbing out and crawling away, but then nothing, so I'm just going to assume he bit the dust. The creeper chasing the black guy with only one leg, pathetic. Like I mentioned before too much flying, and too much of the creeper. He should of kept his mystic...or little that he had left from the original.
This movie was more action/suspense/comedy then horror. I only remember jumping at one scene, the dream scene with DARRY. Now that were on that subject, the dream sequences were too unbelievable. Why is she having them??? How does she know everything about the creeper after she knows it eats people?
All the characters I hated and wanted to die, no one in this movie can act.With the exception of the father, who gave an average performance, but when average is a highlight, you know your in a bad film. Also what was with that part with the knife flying out of the fathers hand like that. Still don't understand that one.
4/10