It's fair to say that the Scream franchise has had just as much ups as it has downs as for every Scream 2 there's a Scream 3. Heck even right now the fanbase seems to be more divided then it's ever been with people either loving or hating the trailer for Scream 7 so I thought that i'd take us back to more simpler time by talking about a film that we all can agree is really good and is easily one of the more better Scream sequels despite it's really very chaotic production and so then join me as I review the film that came out less then year after the first film with the film in question being called simply just "Scream 2" enjoy.
The plot of this film is one year after the events of the first film Sidney and Randy have to try and survive a new wave of Ghostface murders when someone starts making there own real life sequel. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with this films plot being nothing ore the typical Scream plot but in all fairness to this film this was the first sequel to Scream which does mean that you really can't blame them for going back to what worked in the first film and in all fairness to the film the films plot does advance the characters in ways that do feel natural to who they are as well as advancing the plot of the films as a whole just by showing us that Ghostface really can attack Sidney from anywhere in the world with the plot of this film being one that was really well done as it is a strong enough plot to fully support being it's own unique film in the first place and while the first film did handle this plot the best it was interesting to see how the basic setup of someone who knows full well that she's in a horror movie trying to survive now trying to survive being in a horror sequel with this film even using all of the rules that slasher sequels do typically follow including killing of a main character from the first film to make us believe that the main characters can indeed now die with the only thing that doesn't work with this film in regards to it's plot is the fact that it doesn't lean as far as it should have done with the characters knowing that there in a sequel as that is something that could have made the film all the more fun to watch with the plot of this film being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott , David Arquette as Dewey Riley and Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers. Also starring in this film is Jamie Kennedy as Randy Meeks , Sarah Michelle Gellar as Cici Cooper , Laurie Metcalf as Debbie Salt / Nancy Loomis , Elise Neal as Hallie McDaniel , Jerry O'Connell as Derek Feldman , Timothy Olyphant as Mickey Altieri , Jada Pinkett as Maureen Evans , Liev Schreiber as Cotton Weary , Lewis Arquette as Louis Hartley , Duane Martin as Joel , Rebecca Gayheart as Lois , Portia De Rossi as Murphy , Omar Epps as Phil Stevens and Roger L. Jackson as The Voice Of Ghostface.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With all of this films actors turning in some really good performances in this film with this not really being something that's all that surprising as alot of this films actors are a bunch of really good actors in there own right and with Wes Craven a proven director who really does know how to get a good performance out of his actors it's not really all that shocking that this film has a bunch of good performances in it as while it would be expected for the films returning actors to he good in this film as they would have had the experience of playing there characters before hand the films more newer characters also more then hold there own when it comes to acting with the films returning actors as well something that couldn't have been easy to do with the films best actor being Neve Campbell as she really does make the character of Sidney her own whilst also making her feel like the same character that we met in the first fil only now she's a little bit more battle hardened with this being something that does come through in her acting in this film with the acting that's in this film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of the naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.
Nine times out of ten in rushed sequels the characters really do suffer as the makers of the film just wouldn't have had the time to get the right but here in this film it really seems to be the opposite that's true. As within the first few seconds of them appearing on screen together you can tell right away that all of the films returning characters feel like they did inn the first film with all of them having something about them in this film that helps to make them interesting characters with Randy taking a film class which is something that does feel very true to his character , Sid is now the college weirdo thank to the latest attacks , Dewey is more of a big brother figure to Sid whilst still trying to deal with his own past with Gale herself is just as fame hungry as she was in the first film with her even showing how far she's willing to go by surprising Sid with an interview with Cotton which is something that her character would do this early on in the franchises run where the film does somewhat start to faulter is in the newer characters as outside f maybe a handful of them alot of them do start to fade away and fall into the background alot with this possibly being due to the fact that not only was this film a very rushed production but it was also being made at the same time as the original I Know What You Did Last Summer which Scream 2 writer Kevin Williamson also wrote with him being spread a bit to thin and while this films new characters are easily better then the ones that are in Scream 3 as these ones really are at the very least somewhat memorable there not as good as the characters from the first Scream movie as while people do remember the characters from the first movie alot more then they do the characters from this film there is still quit a clear attempt to make this films new characters just as good as the ones in the first film.
Whilst there is quite clearly two Ghostface killers in this film given one scene in the film it is possible that there could have been a third one. As if you recall in the scene where Sidney and Hallie get attacked near the wrecked police car there is already a knockout Ghostface with Mickey being the one to get knocked out now it is possible that Mrs. Loomis was the one to kill Hallie but then you have to take into account all of the twists and turns that the girls do running two and from the car so there was no way that there could have been both Ghostface killers there to kill them as Mickey was already knocked out and Mrs. Loomis wouldn't have been strong enough to lift an entire human being on her own without some help there could however have been a third unknown Ghostface killer helping her out which is something that Scream 3 actually could have dealt with as they could have revealed that Roman the killer in that film was the one that was helping her out which would actually make alot of sense given the fact that he hates Sid's guts and has done since she was born due to how badly there mother treated him it is also possible that with Stu being confirmed to return in some capacity in Scream 7 that it might also have been him as he would want revenge on Sid for what happend during the course of that film and given that he and Billy were best friends it would make sense that he would know who his mother is as well either one works as it explains why the pretty feeble looking Mrs. Loomis is suddenly able to lift an entire human body on her own something which even the more fittest of people would struggle to do but if she had help by an unknown third person then it is something that could have been really very easily.
Whilst this film does have alot of positives in it it does also have some negatives as well like how does Sid not recognise Mrs. Loomis during quite literally any of the scenes where she's surrounded by the press as Mrs. Loomis was in those scenes with her and given the fact that she and Billy dated for quite a while she would have seen what his mother looked like quite alot of the time. The other thing is the fact that the film got rid of the highly entertaining Randy which yes granted does serve a purpose as it does say to us the audience that now anyone can die but interms of the film itself nothing is added by him dieing as you could have had any of the films new characters be the one that get's killed of in the van and it would have worked all the same and while Randy death was done to say that now any character can die it is something that does then rob us of the most entertaining character in the franchise and one that very easily could have taken over the franchise should the makers of the film have chosen not to bring Sid back as there is a lot of potential with his character and just going back to the whole Sid not picking up on Mrs. Loomis thing this is something that very easily could have been fixed by having Mrs. Loomis either wear a disguise when she's in front of Sid or by having her walk of screen whenever Sid is about to walk on screen as then it would be feasible that Sid wouldn't recognise her being there in the first place and you very easily could have had a character like Joel be the the one to get killed off as that character adds nothing to the film in the first place and we would have gotten alot more Randy in future Scream movies.
The motives for each killer as well as the mystery of the film as a whole was actually really good as Mickey is nothing but an insane film student that believes that people watch horror movies to get inspired by them and Mrs. Loomis just straight up wants revenge and that's it. Both of which are things that does work really well for there respective characters but the film doesn't go as far into detail as they really should have dine as we don't get to see Mickey acting all that crazy at any other point in the film which granted would have been very hard to not make him seem like a suspect when he's acting insane it is something that could have been done with just the looks that the character gives in certain situation and how he acts in certain situations as well with the films mystery being as good as it was every going to be given the fact that the film had a chaotic production history with the films script which included who the killer was going to be being leaked online which forced the makers of this film to do a very last minuet rewrite of the films script and the film being rushed into development due to the success of the first film but with this being said it would have added to the mystery if we got to see more of the red herrings like Derek for example acting like they could be the killer as that could then throw us of the sent a little bit and it would have helped if the film gave us some subtle clues as to who the killer of killers were in this film as these are meant to be mystery films after all so it would be in this films nature to give us some clues to help us the audience to solve the mystery of who these killers are in the first place.
Now then this film really has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly two hours and eleven seconds. Which to be to this film is a pretty solid running time for a film lie this one to have as the film does have more then enough plot there to really cover it's running time with the film even using it's running time really wisely as well as the plot of the film is as well developed as it was ever going to be with the film to really needing to develop it's plot all that much as the film is just copying what the first film did with it only adding in a few new things and that's it and yet at the same time tho what new things it does add like the fact that this film is spoofing horror sequels already feel right at home and well developed as it's the Scream franchises DNA to spoof what the in thing is in horror but it would have helped the film out a little bit more if the film did spent alot less time on giving us gory death scenes and weird theater scenes and giving us scenes that do develop it's plot a little bit more but tho to be fair this films character are also as well as developed as they were ever going to be as while yes it is possible that in the leaked version of Scream 2 that characters like Hallie and Derek and even both Mrs. Loomis and Mickey for that example got some character development but given just how rushed this film was in the first place and the fact that the films script was rewritten at the eleventh hour they get as much character development as you'd expect them to get with the film giving us more focus on the kills then it does the character development which is something that does really make alot of sense given that this is a horror film but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With the film delivering on two of it's rules by having more kills and more elaborate deaths with all of this film kills working really well in this film as while nothing will ever be able to top the more intimate nature of the first films kills the kills in this film do work really well as all of the films deaths do feel more important to the plot with a good example of this being the death of Maureen and Phil at the start of the film as the previous film could only dream of having not one but two kills take place in public place and infront of possibly hundreds of the people with there deaths being he deaths that kick of the plot of the film and yet it's not there deaths that are the best deaths n the film as that honor goes to the death of Randy as while it is a quick kill it is one that is built up really well with both him Gale and Dewey quickly searching the surrounding area to see where the call is coming only or Randy to get sneaked up on and dragged into a van where he is then very brutally stabbed to death with his death being the best kill due to the fact that it does now tell us the rest of the films main characters can get killed in this film with the rest of the films kills being really good as well as you can tell that the makers of this film put alot of thought and effort into giving us some really creative and cool kills that whilst they don't top what they did in the first film are still really good in their own right in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall whilst alot of the modern Scream fan will be focused on either hating or loving the trailer for Scream 7 one things for sure and that's the fact that this film is easily better then Scream 3 as this film is just such a good film that is sure to appease alot of the Scream fanbase in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of that I personally used in this very review from tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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