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Jeepers Creepers 2

Jeepers Creepers 2

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Enjoyed it!
Review: Great scary movie, I don't think it was better then part one, I think it should had more people involved. At least let the bus make it to a small town. But it didn't and it still was rather scary. I felt sorry for the little boy that he grab off of the farm, the poor father almost lost his mind. Whatever the thing was that was eating people body parts got what he should had gotten in part one.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Pleasantly brainless romp
Review: If you enjoy monster movies (especially B-movies) you'll probably get a kick out of Jeepers Creepers 2. I found the original Jeepers Creepers to be an exceptional horror film... right up until the psychic cat lady showed up. Then the movie degraded into a train wreck.

Jeepers Creepers 2 improves upon the first. Basically, the Creeper cripples a school bus full of annoying high school athletes and picks them off one by one. You know this going into the movie, and there aren't any surprised. But hey, I paid $6 to watch high school horror movie stereotypes get eaten one by one, and darn it, I got what I paid for.

It's a fun popcorn flick. It won't win any Oscars, of course, but it does redeem the Creeper as an enjoyable monster after the debacle of the first movie's terrible second half.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Spend your money on something else....
Review: You know how people say "well that's an hour and a half of my life I can't ever get back" after watching a really bad movie? Well they'll say it this time over this. Like some other people have reviewed, the monster is NOT scary.....he actually gets quite annoying, he has no real story behind him, other that "he awakens every 23 years to feed for 23 days". You'd think that with him appearing that often (figure 2 to 3 times in a normal person's lifetime) there'd be local legends....especially when they say he's been around for 1000's of years....and people would at least be somewhat wary. They aren't. So basically we have a bat winged monster that throws bone throwing stars (that's right...ninja monster meets country scarecrow) to flatten school bus tires, and a school bus FULL of annoying teenagers who are more concerned about teen love and who's captain of the football team than staying alive....practical right? The thing that really annoyed me about the movie though is that once they "kill" the monster, a farmer hangs it up for display because "you can't kill it" (says a cheerleader who suddenly develops post-cognitive abilities)....how about burning it? acid anyone? something other than charging $5 a head to display it. The movie is badly directed, the stars have no talent.....rent it if you have to see it, you'd be doing yourself a favor. The only thing scary about this movie is that I had decided to watch it in the first place...........

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: All I can say is that I liked it...
Review: In reading most of these reviews people are down talking Jeppers Creepers 2. If you've seen Jeepers Creepers, you know it's horrible, so for this to be a sequal to that piece of crap, I give it 5 stars. It caught me by suprise. I was expecting a mediocre film like the original, but this we very interesting and suspenseful, and the last scene is very mind boggling.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: it's allright !
Review: I liked the first one better . It was bloodier and had a better story line . But thats my opinion ....

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Awful
Review: JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 is awful.
This movie was recommended to me by a work friend. He must have been referring to JP1, which I haven't seen.
First and worst, Creeper ain't scary. He ain't scary in the way Jerry Lewis ain't funny and Britanny ain't sexy. The flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz were more menacing than this leather winged scarecrow, and the munchkins were less obnoxious than that herd of school kids in the broken down bus.
You know, horror works a LOT better when you've got someone to care about. It worked with classic monsters like Frankenstein and the Wolf Man because they had enough moral sense to realize they were abominations. You were able to empathize with them. It worked in movies like The Wizard of Oz because you cared enough about Dorothy and Toto to have a bp spike every time the Wicked Witch mounted her broom. Give us someone to root for.
Oh, yeah, and drop the chintzy CGI. Use the money you save to hire scriptwriters and actors.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Surprisingly conventional sequel
Review: JEEPERS CREEPERS II (USA 2002): Stranded on a country road in a broken-down bus, a group of high school jocks and cheerleaders are targeted by the monstrous Creeper (Jonathan Breck) who needs their body parts for the purposes of regeneration. But the Creeper hasn't reckoned on the tenacity of one of its earlier victims (Ray Wise), a grieving father seeking revenge for the loss of his youngest son...

Though crafted with technical precision and performed with gusto by a strong cast of newcomers and veterans, this disappointing sequel sacrifices the heartfelt emotional undertow of its magnificent predecessor JEEPERS CREEPERS (2000) in favor of bigger and splashier set-pieces. While it's as raucous and entertaining as one could hope for, it's also a surprisingly conventional effort from writer-director Victor Salva, whose best work (POWDER, RITES OF PASSAGE, etc.) has always focused on small groups of characters caught up in extreme situations. Here, his attempts to shoehorn deeper issues into what is essentially a popcorn movie seems forced and inconsequential, and he spreads his narrative concerns too thinly over a broad range of interchangeable characters: The elements of homophobia and racism which initially divide the young heroes - until they're forced to overcome their differences in order to survive the Creeper's onslaught - are rendered increasingly meaningless as the movie progresses, until they no longer have any direct influence on the wider storyline.

But Salva is too much of a craftsman for his movie to be a complete washout. The action/horror set-pieces are genuinely spectacular, and Breck camps it up superbly as the hideous Creeper, swooping out of the darkness to carry unsuspecting victims to their doom. Working in scope format for the first time in their respective careers (REAL scope, not that Super 35 rubbish), Salva and cinematographer Don E. FauntLeRoy conjure a series of startling images from the outset, many of them tinged with visual poetry: The golden cornfield in the opening sequence, where the film's first victim suffers an appalling fate (a genuinely horrific set-piece); the point-of-view shots from the Creeper's perspective as it swoops on fleeing prey; and the eerie calm of the closing sequence, which portends sequels to come. Salva's regular composer, Bennett Salvay, delivers a terrific symphonic score, as brassy and frightening as any in recent years, which serves to boost the film's dramatic appeal in no uncertain terms. Wise, a late addition to the cast, dominates the film as an avenging farmer who is every bit the Creeper's equal in terms of strength and persistence, and he's given strong support by veterans Diane Delano and Thom Gossom Jr. The younger cast members are enthusiastic and talented, and it's a fair bet that some of them (Travis Schiffner, Al Santos, Nicki Aycox, etc.) will figure heavily in various Hunkiest/Sexiest lists during the next few years. Look out for a brief - but welcome - cameo appearance by Justin Long from JC1. It may not live up to expectations, but there's still much to enjoy in JEEPERS CREEPERS II.

Extras include a boisterous (but informative) commentary track with Salva and members of the cast, and another with Breck, production illustrator Brad Parker and makeup effects designer Brian Penikas. Documentary extras cover the production process from start to finish, and there's a video diary of a day on-set, in which the rigors of shooting a low-budget horror movie are revealed in all their gruesome glory. Essential stuff, hugely watchable.

103m 55s
2.39:1 (Panavision) / Anamorphically enhanced
DVD soundtrack: Dolby 5.1
Theatrical soundtrack: Dolby Digital
Optional English subtitles and closed captions
Region 1

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: JUNK! TERRIBLE, STUPID sequal
Review: The original "Jeepers creepers" had one of the most exciting original openings of any recent horror film I had seen. The movie was innovative, original and very scary. This lame sequal is plain horrible. The opeining defines boredom and the film drags on and on and never even approaches the original film's genuine frightful feeling. The Creeper's freaky truck never makes an apperance, the sog that was tied nto he title and theme never is played and the Creeper siply flies around looking stupid and not scary. The entire movie revolves around a bunch of jocks on a bus, stranded on the road,which alone is beyond lame and boring. None of the characters are interesting, and I felt this was just a lame excuse for MGM to cash in on whatever money they coud gross off this as that studio has had very few hits recently. Don't waste your time with this mess like I did. On a scale of 1-10 I give this pile of junk a ZERO!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: what happened?
Review: The first had a comic book,larger than life feel to it, this one was flat and was creepy in another way.(the bus load of half naked boys,lets all go to the bathroom in a circle creepy)The kids are all idiots and there are no good gore effects to be found.the effects should have been better since the first was a hit.Go watch the original instead.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Get REAL People
Review: What do you want in a horror film? Some reviews have the tone of, "Well, I rented this with Bergman's Seventh Seal, and I was disappointed by the juxtaposition of the Sitz em Leiben from an overall gestalt blah . . . blah . . . blah. . . ."

It is a fun horror movie. Enjoy it!

It continues the original story with the next day. It involves a group of high school students on a bus which "the Creeper" disables. What I enjoyed about it is that is plays with obvious conventions. You expect the standard "teen film." It is not. It plays with the conventions of, "let's split up," "is it dead? Yeah I think so, let me just stare at it and see if it wakes up!"

Others have given enough plot summary. What the DVD has that is really enjoyable is the Commentaries. The first is with the Director and the "teenagers." It is hysterical. In a few places the "kids" MST-3000 a scene.

Another thing I like is the film does not answer a lot of questions. Why the hell do crows hang about? There is none of the "sequelitis" over explanation: "Well, Bob, there was this kid whose scout troop was in an insane asylum . . . he caught his sister with his dog. . . ."

This is well worth a fun rental if you do not "love" horror film. If you enjoy them, you should be pleased.

--J.D.


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