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1) It wasn't as good as the original, though no films ever are (maybe Cape Fear and Ocean's Eleven and a couple others escaping me right now).
2) Filmakers these days have to figure out that GORE doesn't always mean SCARY.
3) I jumped at times, but there were the cliches; cars not starting all of a sudden, characters who only show up to move the plot along, and finally, the group of kids who do nearly EVERYTHING wrong while each of them get killed one by one till either the hottie or the protagonist (or both) are alive.
Needless to say, another atypical teen "horror" film. Watch the original.
I do expect someone to note that I always say something bad about films....and honestly, this is my opinion: 99% of all ideas for GREAT movies have already been done, and knowing that the masses crave for mindless stunts/violence instead of intelligent plot, we're given the formula movie that's being retold in another way just like the other 30 movies like it that have come out the last couple of years. Don't get me wrong, I love a good obscene comedy, but when they just want to gross you out more than make you laugh/shriek, then nevermind. Happy Gilmore, Tommy Boy and Dumb and Dumber are classics because they never wanted to push the envelope, unlike Freddy Got Fingered, Tomcats and Slackers.
My defense? Kangaroo Jack was at one point the #1 movie in America.
Last edited by DeltaSigStan; 10-21-2003 at 08:51 PM.
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