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Summary: this movie is off the hook
Review: this movie was scarry i was friten the way they killed people it was on believeble
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Summary: The most quality sequel in the series.
Review: You can't beat the original, but you can come damn close, and this one does. After suffering the pointless 3, the mediocre 4, and the abhorrent 5 and 6, we finally see the return of Jaime Lee Curtis in the role that made her popular. Laurie Strode's return is not just the only catch for this film. The great cast, including Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin, and LL Cool J, fleshes out a wonderfully written script, as well as a feasible plot line. Michael and Laurie play off each other phenomenally, and we finally see Laurie become the heroine was always knew she should be. Overall, a must-see with a killer ending (no pun intended).
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Summary: Blood Is Thicker Than Alcohol
Review: Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) didn't even know she had a brother, until he tried to kill her on Halloween night of 1978. She knew about psychotic killer Michael Myers, of course, as did everyone in her neighborhood of Haddonfield, Illinois, who killed his older sister when he was only six years old and was incarcerated in the state loony bin, but she didn't know she was related to Michael because she was relocated and given a name change after the brutal crime. Laurie was seventeen when Michael escaped and tried to kill her off, the sole surviving member of his original family. He didn't succeed, but he did massacre a number of her friends and assorted others who got in his way. Michael was presumed dead after that night of mass murder, but his body was never found.Laurie faked her death and changed her name again, this time to Keri Tate, and became the headmistress of a posh private prep school. The years have not been kind to her. At age thirty-seven, her husband has divorced her, and her seventeen year old son John (Josh Hartnett) finds her overprotectively paranoid. She's an alcoholic, to boot. She's always been certain Michael will return one day to finish off old business, and with his obsession about murdering all his kin, John will be next in line after her. Just as she's beginning to learn to trust again with new beau Adam Arkin, and starting to lighten-up on watching over her son, her worst fear becomes a reality. Michael has found out her new identity, and tracked her down. And, needless to say, the intervening years have done nothing to improve his disposition... This is a great script, well-acted and -directed and handsomely produced. It has more tension than any entry in the series, except for the first. The action is plenty nasty. There are a number of terrific camera shots, the best being of Laurie and Michael's first face-to-face confrontation through a porthole-style window. The music score is excellent, making marvellous use of the famous original John Carpenter/Alan Howarth theme and adding new dimensions to it, though that actual theme is oddly underused during the gripping finale. The opening credit sequence and music is phenomenally good, panning and cross-dissolving over headline clippings of Michael's previous reign of terror and Laurie's sad history, while an actor doing a near-perfect impersonation of the late Donald Pleasance (Michael's doctor, from the preceding entries) narrates highlights of the same. The ending of the movie is especially surprising and satisfying. The best thing about this film, though, is Jamie Lee Curtis' mature performance of a woman barely coping with the lasting scars of deep trauma, which is credibly and sensitively handled. Unfortunately, another sequel (Halloween: Resurrection) followed this perfect conclusion to the popular series, though that doesn't diminish H20's stature. Even those who've never seen any of the other entries will enjoy it, on its own merits.
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Summary: fun
Review: i did not get scared. rather i laughed through the whole movie. i loved it and it is not scary. maybe i am a little dark but i consider this a comedy. i cant wait to see ressurection on dvd. my mom makes me wait for this kind of movie. it survived the jeepers creepers syndrome.
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Summary: Great Halloween movie to see
Review: Halloween H20 is among the best of the series. I am writing this review on July 11, 2002...the day before the latest Halloween movie (Halloween: Resurrection) hits theaters. It is my hope that Halloween: Resurrection will leave off where H20 ended and explain whose head was actually cut off at the end of the movie. You didn't think it was Michael did you?? I knew the first time I saw H20 that it was not Michael who died in the end. He put the clothes and mask onto someone else...I can't say who because I am unsure. Anyway, this is a review for H20..not the upcoming Halloween: Resurrection. I found H20 to be a wonderful movie, although Michael's presense didn't really play a factor until the last half hour of the movie! Still, I recommend Halloween H20...I know you will enjoy it!
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Summary: To Enjoy, or Not Enjoy
Review: There are two ways you can view Halloween H20. Number One: Forget that Halloween 4-6 were ever made, and believe that Halloween 1-2 are the only existing ones. This would make for an enjoyable horror movie. At times, H20 has a bit of the same feel of the original and its sequel, but an updated feel to it. Michael is a bit more brutal here, but it was the 90's and the Scream phase was going on. Jamie Lee Curtis is as strong as ever as Laurie Strode, and plays off her "near the brink of insanity" persona very well. The final showdown -- er -- showdown between her and Michael in the school is a very tense and good setup. The acting from the supporting characters is very acceptable. Especially that of Josh Hartnett. Now, let's see it from my second viewpoint. In Halloweens 4-6, Laurie Strode supposedly had another child. Jamie Strode, and it was these 3 films that focused on Michael trying to kill her. He finally managed to do so in part 6, but not before she also had a child. And what about the whole Thorn occult deal that Michael is linked to? This is what upsets me about the Halloween series in general, it didn't keep up with its continuity. And with Halloween Resurrection's release, they even space themselves more with discontinuity by completely ignoring Laurie's son, John (Josh Hartnett). Read my Halloween Resurrection review for more on what I have to say. When I do watch H20 (And I do occasionally because it's entertaining), I try to set my movie-mind with the fact that there is no Halloween 4-6, and that this is only the third entry in the series. I at least enjoy it better when I think that.
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Summary: Michael is finally back
Review: Lefting the Halloween series in part six, and stop dealing with Laurie's Strode story, part seven takes place in Laurie's life rwenty years after Halloween 2.
Now she has a son, called John(Played by The faculty kid, Josh Hartnett).
Laurie changed her name to Kari and she is a schooll principal, were John, his girlfriend Molly(Michelle Williams from tv series Dawson's creek) and two more friends studys.
The now have a field trip, but the four friends are thinking to stay at schooll and celebrate Halloween.
But things get scary when Michael Myers, who was not dead, starts to stalk John, and Laurie gets [angry]. I'm not really a Halloween fan, but it was good to see Michael back in action.
Not too many kills, but really good ones.Jamie Lee Curtis gives a great performance, remembering the old Halloween.
Fans were very happy to see her again. I was hoping to see a bigger part for LL Cool J, but he was great.Very funny and original, specially the phone conversations with his wife.
Laurie's lover was a flaw, he ruins Jamie Lee's part.Michelle Williams(Very different from Jenny, her Dawson's creek rol) it's a little chubby, but still loking good.
Josh Hartnett, good as usual.But it should had a better part. Director Steve Miner(From House, Friday the 13 part 2 and 3 and Lake Placid) gives and excellent direction, including good blood efects, shadows, and a hole new mask for Michael.
'Cause they used the old mask, but they changed it for a better one, that looks real nice. He also does a lot of homages.Including Psicho, Scream 2('ll Told you about that later), and the same original Halloween).
Scream 2, in Mollys room you can see that the girls are watching it, the part were Sarah Michelle Gellar gets killed. Halloween H20, 20 years later it's a simple but effective film, about Michael getting more and more angry, so if you want more wait for part 8.
I know a few things of it, and I don't want to ruin it, but I know that Jamie Lee Curtis gets killed in the firts 10 minutes.
Becuase Michael is not dead, and he's coming back home, to revenge from the kids who had taken his house. Can't wait to see it, it seems that it's going to be a blast.
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Summary: The Best in the series since the Original
Review: I believe that any real fan of the Halloween series would agree that this one is the best since the start. There are so many little nuances in it that are similar to the original that you can tell that the producers (Jamie Lee Curtis was one I believe) put some thought and time into making it so it would be better than Parts 4, 5, & 6. I was a little surprised that they make a reference to the fact that "Laurie" died in part 4, yet they never mention Laurie's daughter who was in that same film (and part 5), that bugged me a little. I am one of those fans of this series who pretends that most of Part 4, and all of 5 & 6 never even happened, so the fact that this film doesn't make much of those three movies did go over well with me. Any real fan knows that this story is about Michael and Laurie and everything else is just filler. They can add many new characters and many killings to each film but without teenage girls to remind him of his loose sister in Part 1 and without Laurie for Michael to obsess over none of it makes any sense.
This version is true to the original in that he is finally confronting his sister Laurie after 20 years of searching for her. Now there's a nephew in the picture and guess what, he's turning 17, the same age as Michaels first victim, his sister in Part 1 AND the same age as Laurie when she was "Miss Virgin Babysitter 1978"! Laurie is naturally shell shocked after all these years and Jamie Lee Curtis does a great job and has fun in the part that made her a star so many years ago. Not all the characters are necessary which happens a lot in sequels, the producers forget that it was the rawness of the actors and the sparceness (?) of fluff that made the original a classic. The kid actors do an o.k. job. L.L. Cool J. is funny but not really necessary over all. One thing to note is that Halloween introduced Jamie Lee Curtis and H20 introduces us to Josh Hartnett as her son, he has since made quite a little name for himself in movies, so that's very cool I think.
My pans for this film are: It could have been longer (Especially the BIG fight scene which the audience had waited 20 years for. It could have been much longer and tougher on both characters...we deserved it and so did they)
Also with all the fine work they do in making little references to the original film(s); Laurie bumps into everyone, Mr. Sandman playing twice and Laurie turns into full babysitter mode again and gets sliced on the same arm AGAIN ..OUCH!! plus the fun they have with Janet Leigh and poking fun at Psycho... (Her name is Norma, hello Norman Bates? and she drives the same car she did in Psycho, cute) I for one would have LOVED a cameo by the actresses who played Linda and Annie in the first film. She kept seeing Michael all over, so why not her dead best friends, that would have been fun I think.
Oh well, you can't have everything. I do highly recommend this video/DVD if you enjoy this series. It's a must have for the series but I would really say that as a fan you only need own the original Halloween and parts 2, 4, and H20 and you'll have the whole picture....that is until "Halloween:Resurrection" comes out and that could mean the end of Laurie Strode and/or Michael Myers from what I've read....let's hope not. Please buy and enjoy :o)
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Summary: great
Review: this in my opinion was a great sequel curtis returns this movie is actuly scary seeing michal teries inocent kids and killing them off was scary jamie lee curtis does great acting in this movie shes the greatest actoress of all time this is the only gory one in the series
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Summary: Great movie
Review: I have only see halloween,Halloween 2, and halloween h20 and i think this seiries is the best. This movie is great and worth seing. Very scary... I love micheal myers and i hope they keep up the great halloween movies!!!!! I recomend this movie to every one!
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