Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5060002831816 Format: PAL Label: Pathe Distribution Manufacturer: Pathe Distribution Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Pathe Distribution Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2004-01-19 Running Time: 95 Studio: Pathe Distribution Theatrical Release Date: 2003-08-29
Despite the usual symptoms of sequelitis, Jeepers Creepers 2 delivers the goods for those who enjoyed the 2001 original. While establishing the flesh-eating "Creeper" as a new horror icon with frantic action and more elaborate special effects, writer-director Victor Salva follows the traditional formula, dispensing with plot almost altogether and focusing entirely on threat, menace, mayhem, and gore. That's likely to disappoint horror fans hoping for a more revealing exploration of the Creeper's origins (room for another sequel, perhaps?) and by trapping nondescript teens in a school bus attacked by the Creeper, Salva severely limits the movie's overall potential. Still, there's something to be said for straightforward shocks and Jeepers Creepers 2 delivers enough of them to justify its profitable existence. --Jeff Shannon
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: actually good Comment: I'll be honest, I didn't find anything in this film that was majorly different to the first one, however I still enjoyed it. It's a typical american teen horror flick with loads of people in it that you may have seen from other films or shows, including that bloke from Malcolm in the Middle! It's a good horror film, mildly predictable, but it doesn't really matter! Customer Rating: Summary: more of the same Comment: enjoyable sequel to decent original.this offers nothing new but what it does offer is undemanding and entertaining sequel that ticks all the boxes and gives the viewers what they want Customer Rating: Summary: FAR BETTER THAN THE FIRST Comment: While traveling from a football game, one of the school bus' tires is mysteriously blown out by a weapon of some kind. Deciding to make the best of it, they continue their trek, tired and weary from the day's game. Later that night, another tire is blown out, effectively rendering the bus useless. While waiting for help, something takes the team's two coaches and bus driver, leaving the kids and cheerleaders by themselves. Stranded with nowhere to go, they are soon under siege by the Creeper, a villainous human-like monster that preys on fear. One of the cheerleaders, Minxie, (Nicki Lynn Aycox) has a dream that the figure has been around for thousands of years and can't die. The rest of the group writes it off as a mere dream, and when they make contact with hunter Jack Taggert Sr. (Ray Wise) and his son Jack Jr. (Luke Edwards) they are overcome with relief. However, the Creeper starts to relentlessly attack the bus, driving everyone against each other. When the two Jacks finally show up, the Creeper has drastically reduced the size of the group. They try to stop the marauding creature from picking off the rest before daybreak.
The Good News: Wow, after such a good first movie, this one would be hard pressed to match it. Not only does it do so with flying colors, but I actually think this one is far better than the first one. It had lots more action to it, which I really love. Tons of great action scenes include the final twenty minutes, when the Creeper has fully been unleashed on the trapped group and tries to hunt them down while trying to avoid being hunted by Jack and his son. That whole sequence is very exciting, as it features tons of many new ideas to trapping a creature that it's ingenuity and creativity used is really new for these kinds of films. Normally, they don't have much creativity, and this one really surprised me. It has a lot of cool moments and action set-pieces that easily make it a cool movie. The opening is one of the creepiest openings to a movie I've ever seen. It is a great way of building suspense in the scene. The combination of the setting, the camera movements and the unknown figure seen is really creepy. It plays out wonderfully as well, as it's a nice payoff that comes from a lot of suspense. Granted, this one has a lot of suspense in it, but it's mainly the action that sets this one apart. The entire last twenty minutes of this is just so action-packed it could've been in a legit action movie. It's a great way of trying to deal with the Creeper in inventive ways, so it allows for some great pieces. The entire plot of this film is perhaps the greatest part of this film. It has one of the simplest plots of any film I've seen, yet it manages to contain enough great moments and ideas that it holds your attention for the entire running time. It brilliantly does it, so it keeps you on your seat the entire time. For being so simple, it gets the job done.
The Bad News: I really don't know how people can't like this one. There's nothing bad about it. I guess I could say that the plot-line needed more work to hold a more stronger, convincing plot, but it did remarkably well for such a simple one.
The Final Verdict: This is a great example of a sequel being better than a good original. It is action-packed, full of surprises, and never becomes dull. This is a great horror film and one that all should seek out, even for those that didn't like the original. Customer Rating: Summary: If it only had a brain . . . Comment: Isolated setting - check. Scary monster - check. Busload of arrogant, squabbling teenagers to be picked off one by one until the least obnoxious remain - check!
Though, to give it its due - its not been entirely badly made. Whilst much of the mayhem occurs in the convenience of darkness, there are several frights to be had during the blazing sunshine-lit cornfields.
The Creeper is a pretty revolting movie monster. The film is cinematically well made. Some of the acting leaves a great deal to be desired and there are ideas that aren't well explained. The dream-sequences the girl experiences are a good idea that unfortunately seemed like a post-script addition.
Definitely one for the teenagers - and to perhaps narrow it down further - teenage girls. The unnecessary shots of scantily clad teenage football jocks were verging on the gratuitous. When I read however about the other reason the director Victor Salva, is famous, it became rather more clear why this was. Customer Rating: Summary: Marginally more interesting than reality TV... Comment: ...but not much!
I don't usually watch horror films - they prey on my mind in the wee small hours!-, but this happened to be on TV one dull sunday evening whilst I was feeling too lazy to exercise the remote and move on.
My scare rating for this has to be a minus 10. Am I, perhaps, getting tougher in my old age? Could I now watch The Exorcist with confidence? Nope. It's just that this film was more of a comedy than a horror, imo. No nightmares for me. This was typical cliched teen-horror fare, and not very good at that!
What was that winged thing - a Batfink/Alien hybrid? Whatever it was, it was the daftest looking thing I've seen in a long time. And it can just rip its own head off, calmly replacing it with that of one of its victims, can it? Puh-lease!
By the end of the film I was shouting at the Tv, advising the heroic dad, who ultimately saved the day (or night), that it might be prudent to toss the bat-thing's carcass onto the fire after he'd, apparently, killed it.
Did he listen to my mantra? No! What did he do? He pinned it up in his barn as a rather odd looking feature, charging local teens five dollars a time to look at it.
Lord Elrond (LOTR) knew what he was talking about. If you want to destroy something properly, chuck it into the nearest Mount Doom (or a modern day equivalent such as a foundry). Don't hang it in your barn as a trophy and then sit there, crappy old harpoon gun in hand, waiting for the thing to come back to life.
Why don't people in films think like the rest of us? Because if they did, there wouldn't be any need for sequels!
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