Halloween: H20

Rating:
Summary: THE BEST HALLOWEEN EVER
Review: I thought that Halloween H20 was the best Halloween ever. It had a great cast of today's hottest stars.I bought it for 6.99 as a pre-viewed movie and I honestly though it was the best movie ever made.I've watched it 8 times since buying the video.

Rating:
Summary: A sequel that lives up to the origional
Review: Halloween H20 I thought would no way compare to the origional, but i was wrong, it was almost better. Jamie Lee Curtis made a great return as Kerry Tate the headmaster of a prestegious private school, when on halloween night michael myers makes his return to come after her, and now her son john, his girlfriend, and their friends. Finally in this movie Kerry gets rid of michael meyers for good.

Rating:
Summary: Punch Steve Miner in the face for this one
Review: I went to the theater on the first day this movie came out. I came out of the theater confused. What happened to the parts 4-6? I loved 4 and 5. Can't say the same about 6 but Im flexible. This movie dosen't deal with 4-6 at all. The director, Steve Miner, "totally" discredited anything from the others. In an interview I seen he just thought 4-6 was a joke. Here's the joke: Halloween H20. I mean, I did like the movie. It was fine if your a hard core Halloween fan but the fact that 4-6 never existed creates a sort of paradox and loop hole. It's just hard to get past with actually enjoying the movie. Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode) is back and the head mistress of a school. I never did like her. Josh Harnett and Michelle Williams show up with there bad acting and LL cool J hurt my eyes while he was on screen. These actors really hurt the movie for me. I think Steve Miner seen Scream and I know what you did last summer and tried to capitilize on the target audiance. What better way to do that then to put in these popular hopeless actors. What's worse is that now the mysteries from what happened in part 6 will never be known. And this makes a sequale almost impossible. Hopefully Halloween 8 (which is coming out in the fall of 2001 Im told) will bring Halloween back to reality. Don't ask me how. I wouldn't want to be the script writer for that movie. it will be hard to convince us Michael is still alive. If any of you see Steve Miner or Jamie Lee Curtis walking down the street, I encourage you to punch them in the face. They'll deserve it. If any of you have something to say about the things I said, and I know many of you disagree with me on this movie, please E-mail me at: [e-mail]

Rating:
Summary: Halloween: H20
Review: Halloween: H20 was one of Michael Myers best yet. Michael comes back to slash and kills. This time around to find his sister and her son, a college student down to kill but when Curtis around theres no playing around as things get rough, Curtis and her brother face of towards the end. Would Michael ever die? Not unless theres a Michael Goes To Hell: The Final Halloween or unless a H2K or H2K1. We shall soon find out.

Rating:
Summary: Why do movies have kids in them?
Review: Teens are a specialized niche in cinema. Teens in films are categorized as "teen films" because the film focuses around them. But usually teens do not work well with films aimed for a mass audience. Those films have a diverse age span of people. "Halloween: H20" was geared toward teenagers and it fails. I remember being over a friend's house and his hand, covered in bandages recovering from a broken hand, said that he punched a wall in the movie theater after seeing Halloween: H20. Now I wouldn't go to those lengths of not liking a film that much but I can understand why he didn't like this film. Anyway, getting back to the teen thing, it's kids in general that pretty much make a film bad. My friend said "Look at the 'Last Action Hero', if there wasn't a kid, the movie would've been better." I think he was right. The kids pretty much annoy most of the film and gears it toward the teen generation. The scares aren't that well staged and are pretty predictible. I heard there's a sequel rumored to be in the works because this one did so well.

Rating:
Summary: EXTREMELY TEDIOUS
Review: Why on earth was this film made? I'll tell you why. Profit. This is not a movie with any kind of redeeming merit. It was made only to make money. Hyping itself up to be a new "post-modern" take on Michael Myers. The "Scream Generation" of the time woudln't fall for any of the same old trash. Yet the movie does nothing but deliver exactly that.

It has NOTHING to do with the last 5 Halloween movies, so don't go looking for anything involving the man in black or Jamie or the druids cult. And is NOT scary or frightening or worth any attention. Characters are there only to be killed, it's an insult to the actors that their only function is to pad out the length of the movie (a whopping 84 minutes) with their deaths.

Well, perhaps Michelle Williams is worth attention and is the only reason for watching this piece of crap. But it's not like she's in it much. The film is only 84 minutes long and has about 5 scenes. I don't even consider this to be an official Halloween movie. It was only made to cash in on the "Scream" craze of teenagers being staked by a masked killer. Seeing as how Halloween was the very first Slasher flick I guess Miramax thought that this would be the Zenith of the craze. How wrong they were.

All deaths are pointless and meaningless and Jamie-Lee's attempt at being a Ripley-like chick with balls doesn't work. Plain and simple.

File this movie under bad. Really, really bad. Jason Voorhees, come back, all is forgiven.

The DVD is in Dolby 5.1 and is letterboxed at 2.35:1.

Rating:
Summary: Jamie Lee Curtis Was Great But The Lead Kids Were Awful!
Review: Anyone planning on seeing or buying this movie should know that it does not really make sense when viewing Parts 4, 5, and 6. Jamie Lee Curtis, who is terrific in this one by the way, has said in numerous interviews to forget those films and watch Parts 1, 2, and H20 as the definitive trilogy. That being said, the best parts of H20 are when our lead actress is on the screen. Whether it be from having nightmares, being a teacher, having lunch with Adam Arkin, or duking it out with her brother, Michael Myers, Curtis is great to watch. The bad parts of the film involve the lead young actors, including Josh Hartnett (The Faculty), who plays the son of Laurie Strode (Curtis), and his cheesy girlfriend, played by Michelle Williams of TV's Dawson's Creek fame (is this H20 or Dawson's Bloody Creek?). Both are horrible. I enjoyed the two other costarring friends of theirs much better. At least they had some wit and humor about them that was fun. LL Cool J is enjoyable standing around through the whole movie as a security guard, convincing his wife that he wants to be a romance novelist by reading excerpts to her over the phone when he should be working. But the film focuses too much on the son and the girlfriend. Maybe that wouldn't be so bad if the people playing the parts could actually act. You might think I'm being a bit harsh but I couldn't find any redeeming qualities between the two of them. The only scene where he even helps his Mom is at the beginning after she's had her nightmare (He gives her medication and calms her down). But are we to believe that he doesn't really love his Mom? That he just feels obligated? That he's resentful of her acting nuts over a supposed killer he's never seen? That she's just a head case he can't wait to get away from rather than support? I know horror fans might not care, but this film could've been 100 times better if this relationship was better developed. If I had a choice I'd have picked Tobey Maguire (Pleasantville, The Cider House Rules) as the son and Natalie Portman (The Professional, Heat) as the girlfriend. See, they can actually act. They could pull it off. But I guess a Part 7 horror movie doesn't exactly attract alot of good young actors. John Carpenter (Halloween 1) even turned down the opportunity to direct the film after Jamie Lee Curtis offered him the chance. And as for Big Mike? To me, Nick Castle will always be the real Michael Myers. It's just the way he moves and his subtle gestures that define him to the role, while the others (mostly stunt people) ended up only trying to imitate him, but nowhere near having the same effect. So watch the movie mainly for Jamie Lee Curtis's performance. She's the best thing about this movie. But if you're planning on buying this film on DVD, I feel you're getting gypped because it is very expensive and only has a trivia game, music video and a short "making of" featurette on it (not even a trailer). The copy I own says on the back that an audio commentary by Director Steve Miner and Jamie Lee Curtis was offered but it's actually not even on the disc. To Dimension Films, I just want to say this is false advertisement. As for their being a Halloween 8? Only time will tell.

Rating:
Summary: Michael Myers
Review: Halloween H20 Rocks!!!Though not the best of the series Halloween H20 Rocks!!!note:spoiler caution At the end Michael Is reaching for his sisters hand then she chops his head off.I think Michael should have lived.

Rating:
Summary: A decent attempt at the revivival of the HALLOWEEN series.
Review: When producers set out to revive the steady dying HALLOWEEN series, they didn't do too badly. This film marks an important event in the series. The return of Jamie Lee Curtis is what is so signifigant about this film. She again returns to the screen in the role that made her famous. She does so in a mediocre fashion. This film does just about what you expect it to at each point. Therefore, it isn't that great.

Horror film addicts were happy to see Jamie Lee Curtis return to the role. This is one of the reasons the film did as well as it did. However, I wasn't so much impressed with her as I was the new talent the film displayed. I was particularly impressed with newcomer Josh Hartnett's performance as her son. Also, DAWSON'S CREEK star Katie Holmes was notable. Aside from these great performances, the film was only so-so. It was however decent in many ways. So I would recommend buying or renting it.

Rating:
Summary: HALLOWEEN H2O MAKES YOU SCREAM OR MAKES YOU BORED?
Review: ANYBODY COULD HAVE MADE A MUCH BETTER SEQUEL IN THERE OWN IMAGINATION THAN WHAT WAS CAPTURED ON FILM HERE IN THE HALLOWEEN H2O DVD. THE DVD BOX, AND EVEN THE SYNOPSIS OF THE DVD IS DECIEVING, BECAUSE THERE ARE NO THEATRIACAL TRAILERS THAT ARE INCLUDED ON THIS DVD, NOR IS THERE ANY COMMENTARY BY THE CAST AND OR CREW OF THE MOVIE. THE MAIN REASON THAT I HAD PURCHASED THIS DVD MOVIE IS BECAUSE OF THE "CREED VIDEO" OTHER WISE KNOWN AS "WHAT'S THIS LIFE FOR" THAT IS INCLUDED ON THE DVD. IF PERHAPS THEY WHERE TO EVER MAKE ANOTHER HALLOWEEN MOVIE, MAYBE THEY COULD BASE IT MORE AROUND THE MYTH OF HALLOWEEN, OR HOW HALLOWEEN CAME TO BE. WELL THAT IS ENOUGH FOR NOW I HOPE!