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Summary: pretty bad!
Review: Halloween H20,another chance to try to cash in on the success of 1978's Halloween.They brought back Jamie Lee Curtis to try to intice fans,other are a few other big names involved also.This time it's just too boring.The movie is half the way through before you even see any killings or anything good like that.I say avoid this stinker!
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Summary: Maltin Type Review
Review: By far the best in the series, this one re-introduces Jamie Lee Curtis to the succesful little series. Now the headmistress of a private school, Laurie Strode (Curtis) is living under the assumed name of Keri Tate and trying to get on with her life, but on Halloween night, her favorite masked killer shows up for a little fun. This film is great fun. Curtis looks and acts great in reprising her first ever role. Rated R ***1/2 out of ****
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Summary: Halloween Water (H20 - get it?)
Review: H20 is one of the best sequels in the Halloween series. Highly enjoyable, with a great cast (including Josh Hartnett, Michelle Williams and of course Jamie Lee Curtis) it shows us what Laurie gets up to twenty years after the nigh He came home.
I've seen all the Halloweens so far (including Resurrection) and I must admit that this is one of the more scarier ones, and ranks almost at the top with the original. It's really cool, but I knocked one star off because it drags a bit, but then once it gets going, you find yourself on the edge of your seat!
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Summary: not as good as critics say it is
Review: This was a OK movie.I thought it was cool to have Curtis back but this movie kinda stunk.For example,this movie isn't scary and it's too short."Jason Goes To Hell" was scarier than H20.
Also why did they say in the start of the movie(when the 2 cops
were talking after the lady died)"They never found Myer's body" to make it sound like parts 4-6 never happened? This Halloween is really for the people who don't watch the other Halloween's.If your a true Halloween fan, skip H20, if your a person who didn't watch the other moviesand gets scaried easily, go on ahead and this weak Halloween movie.
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Summary: Can Laurie Strode finally turn the tables on Michael Myers?
Review: It is rather amazing that the reputation of the original "Halloween" has not been tarnished by all the sequels that have come down the road in the last quarter century. Whatever eloquence the first film had was replaced by as much explicit bloodletting as possible in "Halloween 2" and the fun has been continuing ever since. "Halloween: H20" is an attempt, of sorts, to get the series back on track. The idea is that the fourth, fifth and sixth films in the series never happened and we are now twenty years after the original bloodletting in the first two films. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is back, all grown up with her own teenage son, only now she is running a private boarding school and calling herself Keri Tate. This is not just because she is trying to escape the notoriety of being the sister of Michael Myers but also because she knows deep down inside that her brother is still out there somewhere trying to kill her. Of course she is right; just do not ask what he has been doing for two decades, wandering around the country wearing that William Shatner mask painted white. From a historical perspective "Halloween" was the first film where the slasher kept getting up every time he was put down. Hard to believe that once upon a time this was a "new" idea, because certainly it has been done to death (pardon the phrase). We are actually at the point where we are surprised in a film where the killer is killed and is actually dead. The killer who cannot die has become such a commonplace it has gone well beyond the slasher genre. What this means is that by the time we get to this film there is nothing new regarding his ability to survive knife slashes, blows from an ax, a rock being pounded on his skull, and other substantive physical assaults. We have seen it all before and whether the slasher's name is Michael Myers, Jason, or whatever, it does not matter anymore. That means the success of this film has a lot more to Laurie's end of the story than Michael's, and in that is the regard in which this film falls short. It is made clear that Laurie has been thinking about this day (okay, this night; he always comes out at night) for two decades. Given that she is running a private school (and recalling her answer regarding fate in her English class back in 1978) we also know that this is a smart person. Surely in all that time she has come up with hundreds of plans on how she will stop her brother from driving a big knife into her body. I mean, come on, remember what Nancy was able to put together in one night for Freddy Krueger. Laurie Strode cannot do better? Sigh. Jamie Leigh Curtis deserved a better script than this for coming back and lending her considerable cache to the series that made her the original Scream Queen. Just go back and watch the original to remember what made this stuff work in the first place. Final comment: Did you ever thing that Janet Leigh's car in "Psycho" had blue tones? That sure surprised me.
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Summary: a good Halloween film
Review: Entertaining with a good cast. Original scream queens back! Score: 89/100
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Summary: The beggining of the end?
Review: First off let me state that I have seen all of the Halloween movies excluding # 6(in which I hear that that may be a good thing) and that I am a big fan of Michael Myers. When I saw this movie I couldent help but cringe alittle: This is what every big time Michael Myers/Halloween fan dreaded, its becoming one of those Teen movies! Yes. Instead of the first few originals, where John Carpenter had a vison on making a actual scary movie and he didnt care about the people who were in it or anything, these last few r trying to change the whole entire vision of the Myers legacy and turn it into some Cosmo Girl movie! Like if u notice this movie has big shots like ll Cool J and Josh Hartnett! There trying to take these movies and crush them and warp them into all of the other horror movies that we have today. Also as u can tell, the role and story behind the Halloween movies r changing into the Friday the 13th kindof movies with the "Killer chasing around young virgin ... teenagers and killing them." Plain and Simple this has to change in the near future. P.S. Look at my review on Halloween Resurrection and u will notice that I brought up the very same kind of points.
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Summary: "A good Halloween installment..."
Review: Halloween: H20 is actually a very good installment of the Halloween series. I liked how they rescued Jamie Lee Curtis from her next-to miserable performance in the first Halloween and made her tough, and sensible, rather than just a spineless whimpering coward of a teenager. Now, instead of running from Michael Myers with his knife an inch from the back of her neck, she's hunting Michael down with a fire axe! Is this the same Laurie from the first movie?! (By the way, I DID see Halloween II, but she wasn't as cowardly as in the first). I really get goosebumps during the scene when Laurie looks through the small circular window and sees Michael Myers (her homicidal brother) for the first time in 20 years. (Ever wonder why it's called H20? H is for Halloween. '20' is for the number 20, which means 20 years have passed since the 1978 Halloween massacre in which Laurie Strode (Curtis) and Tommy Doyle (who is not in this) were the only survivors. After seeing the end of this, I realized that it was pointless to do Halloween: Resurrection if Mike got his head sliced off. But, finally, we figure out that Michael knocked a paramedic unconscious and put his costume and mask on the paramedic. Mike also crushed the medics larynx so he could not speak. Even though it was the real Michael Myers that did the murders, it wasn't him that got his head chopped off, it was the paramedic. Therefore, I urge you to see Halloween: H20 and immediately go to Halloween: Resurrection. Both of them are real good, and I also recommend the original Halloween, Halloweens 2, 4, and The Curse of Michael Myers.
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Summary: None scary, but an OK entry...
Review: Kevin Williamson ... apparently loves the Halloween movies, or so i heard. If he really does, then he should have kept his hands on his own franchise instead of ruining John Carpenter's masterpiece. The idea and plot for the movie was ok, but dissgarding the previous sequels (from part 3 to 6) was a really ridicoulus idea. Also having almost no murder sequences and attempting to make it more "Scream" was a biiiig mistake. The actors was to live with, but director Steve Miner, who directed the dumbest entries in the Friday The 13th franchise (part 2 & 3), was a huuuge mistake as well. Buy the six first movies instead, and skip this movie and the 8th one...
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Summary: The Worst in the Series, Completely Pointless
Review: Having seen all 6 of the previous Halloween films, I can safely say that H20 was by far the worst. It even "borrows" scences from other Halloween films - the dumbwaiter scene from 5?, the "we shot the wrong guy" scene from 4, the "Micahel being thrown off the truck and then hit" scene from 4, among others. Rather than devloping the characters, using their traits, any carefully and artfully killing them off, as in the original films, here Micahel just stumbles in and starts slashing, like in the case of this movies "sexually rambucntious teens" who get slashed up looking for a corckscrew in the kitchen (not spoiling any suprises here, its completely predictable). Rather than appearing in shadows with abrupt and ominous music, you see Michael walking down the street in plain view. Myers is so pitiful, he even gets punched out in one scene. People have said that 4-6 were terrible, and they really dont match the original, but this movie was just pointless garbage, even with Jamie Lee Curtis.
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