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Summary: finally a sequel thats better than the first
Review: jeepers creepers 2 was the only follow up to a horror movie i liked or thought as better halloween 2 was nearly as good as the origanal but not quite.this follow up sees the creeper back in action.there are plenty of jumps and gore.definitley worth seeing and better than the origanal
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Summary: Creeper Loses Some Of His Creep For Sequel
Review: The original Jeepers Creepers took horror fans by surprise and had one of the scariest opening segments, of most thrillers, released in the last 5 years. Of course, the critical reaction was mixed at best, the exact opposite of the audience. The film had enough fun, excitement, and made enough dough to have the studio green light a sequel. I liked the first film-strictly for what it is-enough to check out its sequel.Writer/director Victor Salva returns to handle the sequel, using the events of the first film, as a loose springboard. Picking up a mere 4 days after the end of first one, local farmer Jack Taggert(Ray Wise) sees the Creeper fataly attack his son-The Creeper is still on the hunt for body parts, before he is forced into another 23 year hibernation. As Taggaert vows his revenge, a busload of teenage jocks is left stranded, on a deserted road. Now, Taggert has help in defeating the Creeper, assuming any of them survive. As with most horror sequels, the body count is higher, and the deaths a bit more elaborate, but in the end, that doesn't leave you with much. The creative flow of the first movie just wasn't as present this time out. Watching the story unfold wasn't nearly as much fun. Salva falls back on typical horror conventions to stretch the story out longer. The young cast does what it's supposed to do, yet it does so as the guy in charge, runs out of steam. Like the DVD of the first film, the second is packed with some solid extras. The audio commentary with Salva and the cast is pretty good and worth a listen. Even better for me, is the "Creeper" commentary by Jonathan Breck and select crew members. 5 making of featurettes take you behind the camera, some of which vary in content and quality. There's a few deleted scenes and moments that don't really add much--but are still worth a peek. Storyboards of scenes not used in the picture, photo galleries and the usual theatrical trailer top of the bonus material. I can not stress enough, how much the sequel, though certainly watchable, still is disappointing, Jeepers 2 is (marginaly) recommended
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Summary: Better then part one, but still room for improvement
Review: I'm not ashamed to admit that I actually enjoyed this movie. It was much more suspenseful and action-paced then the first one and it had a decent subplot to go along with it. This sequel takes place just days after the original. The creeper is still on the loose and this time it's set it's sights on a High School basketball team coming back from state. When the tires blow, thanks to the Creeper, they are stranded on a secluded highway in the middle of nowhere. The perfect setting for a horror film. The three adults are picked off one-by-one while the hysterical teens try to figure out what just happened. The movie continues with the teens being stalked by the Creeper while a man and his teenage son try to track down the Creeper who earlier took the man's youngest son from a corn field. It is suspenseful, but not really scary. It has pretty good acting from a cast of mostly unknowns, but the characters are pretty thin. While I like the fact that I could identify the students on the bus, as opposed to a nameless bunch of kids who would eventually die, it would have been nicer to have had more depth there. Finally the ending is a 100% improvement over the ending of part one. I was very satisfied with the conclusion, and the question raised: Is there room for another sequel? Overall, this was an enjoyable flick with a fully loaded DVD to go along with it. If you're a fan of the genre, I urge you to pick this one up.
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Summary: Better than the first one
Review: I borrowed this film on DVD from my siters boyfriends house, and when I watched it, I became a little spooked, its more scary than the first one.The plot and setting was really tremendous and excellent, the creeper meets his match, but hes he really dead for good, maybe they should make a third one to be the last chapter for the creeper.
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Summary: why do i do this to myself?????????????????????
Review: the 1st part had an original type of baddy(that always gets my attention/money)and the idea was interesting enough.so off i went just to get thoroughly bored.it went beyond silly straight to wake me when its over.i reluctantly rented part one to see the ending and if they would explain the badguys problem.nope,they didnt.so now part 2 is released.of course i had to give in to my stupidity and plunk down the money i might as well used as toilet paper.again,my only purpose was to find out the origins of the badguy.again,it wasnt explained.just a bunch of nothing.any director can create a badguy with superhuman powers but if it doesnt make sense(thats one of the problems with gollywood)the whole of the movie is shot.example;boy grows up to hate people.kills them off by absorbing their blood through his feet.if id leave the charactor as is with no further explaination then i have just killed my movie.thats what happened with this creeper 2 parter.i am making my 2004 new years resolution to not give in to J.C. part 3....it will only be worse than the 1st 2 parts.
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Summary: A Creepy Urban Legend
Review: JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 continues the same successful route that its predecessor followed, the differences being mostly a higher body count, more specialized special effects, and some truly slam-bang action sequences. In the original, the Creeper kills and eats his victims, but in this one, he seems content to swoop down on a selected victim and yank him straight up. The plot, of course, is straight out of Urban Film Mythology I. A creature appears once every generation to seek new victims for a restricted time, only to have to disappear for another generation when he finishes. Director Victor Salva takes this basic thrust and imparts some truly impressive energy into a moribund genre that has trod this road before, usually with much less success. In JC2, a bus load of high school jocks and cheerleaders are picked off one by one by the winged Creeper (Jonathan Breck). Once one gets beyond the frenetic pace set by director Salva, JC2 develops into a series of consecutive set pieces involving differing kids. The problem with audience identification here is the same as in any other slasher film. The kids are cardboard cutups whose only purpose is to stand for clearly recognizable types. There is the gay-bashing jock, the shuckin and jiving inner city black, the clairvoyant female, the pom pom cheerleader, and the wise elder who carries a portable harpoon on his truck. Still, one really does not expect some well-defined round characters in a fright film although I would like to think that in any life and death situation in a collective us versus a creature scenario, I would expect far more co-operation. The ending suggests that a JC3 is now in the books, and if so, I would appreciate some needed background on the Creeper. What is it? What is its origin? And how can it fly when its body is so definitely not aerodynamically designed? The answers to questions like these would elevate it to the ranks of a truly memorable horror movie.
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Summary: "He Can Taste Your Fear"?????
Review: First I must say, I wasn't expecting much from this because I found the original nothing more than tired. The story about the 23 days every 23 years is great, they just need better writers or something because the films are very watered down with screams and never-ending scences that are just dull and far from interesting. This was better than the first video, the number of main members in the cast is a great improvement with the first only having two. But, aside from the movie, the DVD is ok, by saying that I mean the picture is very clear with great darks though most of the movie. The sound was also nice with some, not too much, use of the back speckers. If the movie had been better the DVD would be a must have with it's awesome transfer. Overall, see this only if you liked the first or if you really think you'll like this one and will not listen to my advice. I'll say that if I were reading this, I still would have seen it, we all havehave our own tastes.
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Summary: Nothing to write home about
Review: Ehh it was ok and fun to watch, though not as original or well executed as the original. Nice collection of jock & cheerleader hotties, but the monster concept played its way out in the first film.
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Summary: Not Bad with a Few Bad Parts
Review: This movie wasnt that bad at all. All though there were some parts that werent good. 1. When the creeper traps that guy in his wing and takes his head off, he is still moving. All though my brother told me that was his nerves reacting so I dont know. 2. At the beginning when Billy [Shaun Flemming] is putting the scare crows up, if he put the one up the creeper is on, that means he was putting up the creeper, so i dont know. Maybe the creeper took the other one off and he got on it? I think they would of noticed that the creeper looked a lil different from the rest of the scarecrows. All the rest of the movie was FANTASTIC. I loved it!
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Summary: For 23 Days....
Review: The originl "Jeepers Creepers" came out and was accepted okay by critics and filmgoers and was a nice little hit. That ultimately meant that it was "Seqel Time". And so here it is. Writer/Director Victor Salva returns as both in this thorougly fun and entertaining thill ride that is actually better than the original film, believe it or not. But like most horror sequels, this latest pretty much follows the same formula. The formula that the character Randy explained to us in 1997's "Scream 2". The body count is a bit bigger, death scenes a bit more elaborate, and there is more action. This sequel pretty much delivers on all of those things. The film's opening moments are quite good. Farmer Taggart(solidly done by Ray Wise), is crushed when he is dealt a horrible tragedy in his family thanks to The Creeper(Once again played by Jonathan Beck). These opening moments look really good, and Salva displays his keen eye for detail and making the surroundings as much a part of the scene as his actors. After the nice opening minutes, we are introduced to a bus load of football jocks and cheerleadrs traveling down the East 9 highway from the first film. We learn that this is happening just a few days after the first film's happenings, which is a nice way of making this sequel possible because of the mythology Salva created for his monster. The bus gets a flat, courtesy of you know who, and the bus is stranded on the dark, lonely, stretch of road. The Creeper begins picking out who he wants and the intended victims begin to get picked off one by one. The characters on the bus are characters we have seen before in horror films and any other genre of film dealing with teens and high school. There is the hotheaded racist/homophobe Scotty(Eric Nenninger), who becomes one of the central characters on the bus. There's the nerdy kid, the gay kid, the clairvoyant ceerleader, oh wait, that last one might be new. She is Minxie(nice name), and she is played by the adorable Nicki Aycox. She begins having visions of Derry(Justin Long)from the first film, and gets fed information about he Creeper and his motivations and his story. Speaking of The Creeper, he has most definitley become an interesting character. He's nowhere near joining the club of horror heroes like Freddy, Jason, Michael, or any others, but he can be genuinely creepy, as he is in some parts of the film, but that loses steam quickly since we, like in the first film, see too much of him. There are a few new quirks to him this time around. More flying, and more icky metamorphosis', but that's it. No in depth backstory, or anything to really flesh him out more. The same can be said for the group of kids. I'm not a writer, but I do write, and the kids on the bus and their different personalities and conflicts that erupt between them all because of said personalities, is something I would find as juicy to write about as anything else in the film. Salva tried to make each one unique and three dimensional, but it just doesn't fully materialize. After a while, they are all just predictable characters trying to fend off some creature from eating them. I see what he was trying to do, and I like that, but it just got lost in the terror of the situation and was never fleshed out as much as it could have been, which is a shame. Ray Wise was the best of the bunch as Taggart. We've seen a character like him millions of times, but he has a look to his face that just makes you believe in him. The film has a bit more action to it, and it is very welcome. Salva has a nice talent for setting and some of his shots and visuals are strong and frightening. He can definitley create a creepy atmosphere, but the problem with him is that it is quickly over and he can't sustain it for long. I think that this movie, along with the original, are much better films than they are receved here on Amazon. Not a great overall rating here, but they are better than what most people think and what most naysayers say. JC2 is a very fun and entertaining film. It has it's flaws, as I have pointed out, but with a film like this, I am not expecting an Oscar-worthy screenplay. The movie is what it is and it, more or less, gets the job done. It's a real popcorn movie that delivers fun, thrills, and a decent level of excitement. If Salva continues to have ideas that are as shamelessly fun and bombastic like this, then a "Jeepers Creepers 3" isn't so much of a bad thing.
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