Rating: 
Summary: This really deserves one star.
Review: Stupid writing, OTT direction, irritating music, patently obvious sequel-set-up/it's-all-a-dream ending... absolutely dreadful. Only gets a second star because of the gorgeous Jennifer Love Hewitt (and because she sings on the soundtrack).
Rating: 
Summary: Ok Teen Slasher Flick
Review: If I were a fan of corny teen slasher flicks, I probably would have enjoyed this more. I like how this sequel stayed true to "I Know What You Did Last Summer". The movie , again, followed Jennifer Love Hewitt's character, Julie. After her horrific summer about two years ago, Julie is still having nightmares. Later, when Julie and her best friend Karla (Brandy) win tickets to go to Hawaii, Julie thinks that she will have a relaxing vacation.....boy, is she in for a suprise. I don't want to give anything else away, so just go out and rent this movie if you are a fan of teen slashers.
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Summary: FREAKIN' GOOD SEQUEL!
Review: This sequel was not disappointing at all! It has everything a sequel needs - more dead bodies and more gory deaths. What makes this movie unique, though, is the fact that it has a brand new plot!Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is back with a whole new life, new friends, far away from South Port. When her best friend Karla (Brandy) wins a trip to Bahamas, she is ecstatic. Karla brings her new crush along with her and Julie (after Ray rejects) hooks up with her new friend Will Benson. During their stay on the island of Tower Bay, they fool around at the Karaoke Bar and Julie sees a menacing message rolled on the screen "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer". She is badly shaken and wants to get off the island, but no one believes her. What is even worse, the storm is starting and therefore the telephones stop working. So, the four teenagers and five-member personnel are trapped on an island with a brutal murderer. Soon, the bodies - killed in a very inhuman way - start to pile up and the history begins to replay itself. I gave the movie 4 stars for the great music, acting, gore, scare factor and the unique plot twist. However, it was not better than I Know What You Did Last Summer and the ending was a little confusing, so that's why I didn't give it 5. You've got to see this horror movie, cause it is a one of a kind film.
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Summary: By Hook Or By Crook
Review: Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is still being haunted by the events of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER. She is now estranged from one time boyfriend Ray (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) and is now being woed by someone else, Will Benson (Matthew Settle). When her best friend Karla (Brandy) wins a trip to a secluded island, the 2 decide to get away for the weekend. With Karla's boyfiend Tyrell (Mekhi Phifer) and Will in tow, the four set off for fun in the sun. Little do they know that the Fisherman (Muse Watson) has his own ideas in mind for Julie and her friends. Like most horror sequels, this one has a higher body count, and a weaker premise. Still, as sequels go, I liked it well enough to recommend it. The original director and writer of the first film are replaced by Danny Cannon and Trey Calloway respectively. For the most part, the story is petty much by the numbers, while the direction is staged well and keeps the predictable rather exciting. As far as I'm concerned, Hewitt saves the film, too just by her very appearance. Everyone is fine for the material. The great character actor Jeffrey Combs has what could be considered a cameo role but is always fun to watch no matter what he does. As to whether or not there should be another sequel? I will let others judge for themselves. The DVD has a few more extras than the first film did (but no commentary). The production featurette amounts to no more than a "bloated" commercial for the film. Aside from a few trailers, it also includes the music video, "How Do I Deal?" by Jennifer Love Hewitt. The film is available in both Widescreen and Pan and Scan formats. Not bad for a sequel and with Hewitt in it, how can you go wrong?
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Summary: An [dumb] slasher.
Review: Jennifer Love Hewitt and her friends go to the Bahamas for a weekend of fun and sun, but the storm season holes them in and psycho killer Ben Willis is back and out to kill them all. Sequel to the middling original is very stupid (just think, the killer goes through the trouble of conning all these people to the island and decides to off not just them, but even the islanders?) and has almost no story, but remains a bit watchable thanks to the last 35 or so minutes, which features a LOT of running, gratuitous cleavage shots, and bloody slasher action. Too bad the villain is dressed in a silly fisherman's outfit.
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Summary: Dumb fun!
Review: "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" (1998) ... This movie is cheesy, unrealistic and downright silly, but I loved the first movie, and Jennifer Love Hewitt is irresistible. I know I usually have a different word to everyone else on these types of movies, but if I enjoy myself, that is how I base my rating. This movie is my one of my best guilty pleasures, and I don't care what everyone else thinks, I enjoy watching it and that's me. Now ... why do I like this movie? There are many reasons. For starters, it's got everything a fun teen slasher requires. Lots of big breasts, reasonably good acting, truckloads of gore, unpredictable twists and turns, some big laughs, a scary killer and a brilliant setting. To add to that, the movie never stops with the scares, is never boring and had something that I really appreciated. In some teen slashers (Urban Legends: Final Cut especially) the main characters really don't really seem to care after their friends/people have been killed. In I Still Know What You Did Last Summer; Julie James is a very respectable character. She stills mourns for those she has lost and those she may lose. I was actually shocked with the amount of emotion the movie put on when showing Julie's new life and what she goes through. The acting in the film is satisfactory for a horror film. Jennifer Love Hewitt returns as Julie James and once again she proves she's not just about looks, this girl can act. I want to see her give a performance that can give that idea more justice, not just horror movies please! Still she is good as Julie. Freddie Prinze, Jr. also returns and he has improved his acting skills. He puts on a solid performance. Brandy is very eager in the material and her performance worked for me. Mekhi Phifer had me rolling in the aisles with his fun performance as Brandy's horny boyfriend. I also enjoyed the underused Jennifer Esposito as the bartender on the island, and Jeffrey Combs' breakaway as the ruthless hotel owner. Muse Watson is scary and evil again, his facials are fantastic, but every time the guy talks I cringe. I just can't take his lines that seriously. Bill Cobbs is merely okay as the weird guy on the island who is suspected as the killer. Danny Cannon's direction of the movie deserves recognition. The guy makes sure the movie looks great and brings tonnes of atmosphere to the movie. The killing scenes are done to perfection. I was glad he didn't just take the point-and-shoot routine that many horror movies use these days. Cannon put effort into his surroundings. Unfortunately the film editing is pretty atrocious. The characters' mouths move a lot when they're not saying anything, and injuries are cleared up very easily, like in one shot the person is hit hard with something, and then in the next shot they're running like hell and not even a bruise. Think about the editing techniques next time, Dan. Trey Callaway's script is not perfect. While he does mix in freaky-as-hell horror with funny-as-hell comedy quite well with some great in-jokes and an excellent setting for a horror film, there is not much depth or range in the film. He does make sure all the possibilities are used for the killing scenes and horror action, but if Kevin Williamson had written this sequel, I feel it would've been a little more plausible. If you've seen the end of I Know What You Did Last Summer you'll know what I'm talking about, Ben Willis just couldn't of survived. Bad editing, some silly dialogue, unanswered questions and cheesy lines do stop the movie from being great. There is also not enough depth to the film and damn, what was the final scene all about? But, excuse that and you've got what is my favourite guilty pleasure at the moment, and a fun slice of harmless horror. MY GRADE: B
Rating: 
Summary: This movie was awful.
Review: This movie is awful. This is the kind of movie they give you when you buy a DVD player(why the heck do you think I got it?) The acting was awful. The plot was dumb... It wasn't scary. The first one [disappointed], and then this. The only watchable horror movies that came out recently were "Scream" and "Jeepers Creepers", but not this garbage.
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Summary: ...and I still don't care
Review: I Still Know...is as absurd as they come. Four teens, who are sharing a brain, win a trip to the Bahamas. They arrive to learn that they have arrived at the end of season, which is the 4th of July. Forget the fact that they don't celebrate the 4th of July there. This is a neat way of reducing the cast size. Later, there is a supposed hurricane, but the production company wouldn't put out for more than one rain machine, so it's pretty dinky. It does make a fine mess of Hewitt's hairdo, which was bad before it got wet. The fisherman they thought they killed in the first movie is back, and boy! is he upset! The kids waste a lot of time chasing the wrong killer. One of the hotel employees practices voodoo, so he's got to be it, right? No, this is the Caribbean, not Omaha. I lost track of the body count because the person I watched this one with couldn't keep a straight face. When I said I was doing my job, they really fell apart. This is that new breed of movie in which no one knows how to write the music. Here, there is scary music every time someone turns their back to the camera. HD20 had the same problem. These little movies used to have some interesting music, as well as some swell camera angles. Now they've all turned into MTV marathons.
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Summary: The worst sequel ever made
Review: 'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer' really does milk the slasher formula. It's a follow-up to the pretty good 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' but the first movie already killed off the only two members of the cast that could act. The title is also all wrong - shouldn't it be the summer before last? The story involves Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and her new best friend (Brandy) win a trip to the Caribbean. So off they hop to a conveniently remote island with Brandy's boyfriend and a random guy that they don't know. The fact that's it's storm season leads to a lot of obvious plots involving people not being heard over the wind and a lot of thunder that is probably supposed to rack up tension. There is absolutely nothing tense about this movie. The usual round of killings ensue with a man stalking through the hotel, which is inexplicably almost empty save for a few signposted red herrings. Whilst the first movie had a tongue-in-cheek yet still fairly creepy script by Kevin Williamson of 'Scream' fame, this has no hallmarks whatsoever. Apart from Brandy, who manages to ground the rest of the cast, the acting is dismal. It says it all when the audience looks forward to the arrival of Freddy Prinze Junior. The ending is laughable and there isn't a scare in sight. This isn't just one of the worst sequels ever made but one of the worst movies too.
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Summary: Short on plot, but long on action
Review: While it's predecessor certainly didn't have a deep, complex storyline, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer boasts one of the shallowest plots in recent horror history. However, since plot always takes a backseat to scares in horror films, I Still Know won't disappoint the avid horror fan.
The survivors of I Know What You Did Last Summer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., and of course the fisherman, return along with a slew of new characters to be served up for slaughter. Brandy stars as Julie's best friend who wins a trip to the Bahamas via a radio contest. Mekhi Phifer and Matthew Settle are also along for the weekend in paradise.
Unfortunately, the fisherman also joins the party, and the hotel staff quickly begins to meet its demise at his hand (or hook).
The young cast does a decent job, especially the lovely Jennifer Love Hewitt, who wears a tank top that would be small on a five-year-old throughout the movie.
While it won't be known as a cinema classic, I Still Know will certainly satisfy fans of the horror genre.
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