Really wasn't a bad sequel. A good follow-up but gets a little too graphic in some parts for my taste and strays away from a lot of the humor that made the first film a classic.
Scream 2: Scream Harder takes Sidney Prescott to college, where it's all gonna happen again. And it looks like no matter who's behind the mask, Ghostface will go down in history as the movie slasher who takes the biggest beatings. Sure, he kills a lot of people, but man does he ever take it in the nuts. While a sequel is necessarily derivative, this one provides another cool mystery (Craven is very good at presenting suspects) and the usual metatextual shenanigans (the movie of the true story of the previous movie is a highlight), with Courteney Cox becoming more sympathetic in the role of cutthroat report Gale Weathers - I think her arc is one of the things I enjoy most about the Scream movies. Craven even pulls some of the same tricks he did in the first one and still managed to surprise me with them. There are some nice, tense moments, like the claustrophobic bit in the cop car, and Gale and Dewey with the killer in the studio, plus an epic final confrontation in the drama department's theater when Sidney faces her fate. Extra points for all the recognizable faces in this, several from before they were stars, though taking their cue from the first film, some people just can't help but go over-the-top. A feature rather than a bug?
These movies are actually great, in a technical sense specifically. I mean, the killer, I figured Mickey as he popped up in th theatre, maybe 30s before he pulled the mask off. & The cast !!!
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jerichoholic
It doesn't deserve the fan hate. I agree with the critics' opinion.Jashezilla
Really wasn't a bad sequel. A good follow-up but gets a little too graphic in some parts for my taste and strays away from a lot of the humor that made the first film a classic.Dieguito
Still a good one, specially if you consider how sequels are nowadays..JCS
Good sequel!IreneAdler
Good sequelSiskoid
Scream 2: Scream Harder takes Sidney Prescott to college, where it's all gonna happen again. And it looks like no matter who's behind the mask, Ghostface will go down in history as the movie slasher who takes the biggest beatings. Sure, he kills a lot of people, but man does he ever take it in the nuts. While a sequel is necessarily derivative, this one provides another cool mystery (Craven is very good at presenting suspects) and the usual metatextual shenanigans (the movie of the true story of the previous movie is a highlight), with Courteney Cox becoming more sympathetic in the role of cutthroat report Gale Weathers - I think her arc is one of the things I enjoy most about the Scream movies. Craven even pulls some of the same tricks he did in the first one and still managed to surprise me with them. There are some nice, tense moments, like the claustrophobic bit in the cop car, and Gale and Dewey with the killer in the studio, plus an epic final confrontation in the drama department's theater when Sidney faces her fate. Extra points for all the recognizable faces in this, several from before they were stars, though taking their cue from the first film, some people just can't help but go over-the-top. A feature rather than a bug?BeasleyOnFilm
It's equally as good as the first, only suffering from not being as original seeing as it had all been done before.mrm2541
I was watching this on my iPad and for the last 30 minutes I could actually see my bored face with the movie.It's my own fault, I don't know what I was expecting.
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These movies are actually great, in a technical sense specifically. I mean, the killer, I figured Mickey as he popped up in th theatre, maybe 30s before he pulled the mask off. & The cast !!!