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Jeepers Creepers 2
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Jeepers Creepers 2 (2 stars) (PG-13 )
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Reviewed By Demetrius Payne
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A sequel to a movie I know I saw but don't remember much about; though for what it is this isn't too bad.
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Ray Wise: Jack Taggart
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Jonathan Breck: The Creeper
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Travis Schiffner: Izzy Bohen
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Nicki Lynn Aycox: Minxie Hayes
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Bottom Line:
Every 23 years for 23 days "it" gets to feed. In the first movie the Creeper went through the rural landscape of whatever town it was in feeding on whichever person crossed its path. In this sequel its prey is a little more specific, the team bus of high school athletes.
Story Line:
We never get a real clear picture of what "it" is, no idea where "it" comes from, nor do we know "its" agenda. He hunts & he feeds-period. He's the Creeper. I feel the need to clue people into the first movie because it didn't make a whole lot of money, but on the other hand maybe it doesn't matter because there isn't a much difference between the two anyway.
In the first movie we did get to see that he's tall, slimy looking, strong, agile & indestructible. So much so that at the end of the first movie, basically the bad guy won - no survivors. You know that usually at the end of horror movies the authorities find the busty blonde, shivering & terrified over the experience she just endured? Not in the original "Jeepers Creepers." In this second installment even more emphasis is placed on the Creeper himself, as he is on screen much more than he was in the first go round. Set a day or two after the original movie, the Creeper has set its sights on a bus full of young men & women on their way home from winning the state championship, on the last day of his 23 day feeding frenzy.
Tell Me More:
This movie has several elements that create a sense of tension & a bit of good of fashioned horror. Then there are the parts of a horror movie that I loathe, the talking or whatever passes for "acting" that has to inevitably fill the space between killing scenes, & that's where the movie falls flat. BUT being critical of a horror movie for bad acting is like being critical of a goldfish for not being an exciting pet. This movie is what it is & isn't what it isn't, & the people in the screening I attended were jumping in their seats at all the right times; & that definitely counts for something.
Rated R for horror violence and language
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Demetrius Payne © 2003
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Mini Filmography
Ray Wise-"The Battle of Shaker Heights," "Dead End," "Scream at the Sound of the Beep"
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Jonathan Breck-"Good Advice," "Jeepers Creepers," "Full Circle"
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Travis Schiffner-Film Debut
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Nicki Lynn Aycox-"Slap Her…She's French," "Rave Macbeth," "Crime and Punishment in Suburbia"
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Directed by-Victor Salva-"Jeepers Creepers," Rites of Passage," "Nature of the Beast"
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