By: Wesley

Wesley — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 05:13:56 +0000

I think your panties are on a little tight, this movie had some pretty big faults, but you’re giving it an F? Haha ok buddy.

By: shelby

shelby — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:51:14 +0000

omg this movie is sooo freaky i couldn’t sleep for months but then i saw scary movie 3 then i wasn’t scared anymore

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By: AhmedF

AhmedF — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 07:05:30 +0000

“This “new” Samara is now some attention-starved little twerp who desperately wants a hug. Her whole motivating goal in the movie is to possess the lead heroine’s son so she can have a “Mommy”. It’s not scary. It’s not even entertaining.”

Shades of Dark Water!

By: DrSpengler

DrSpengler — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:52:35 +0000

This movie was really, REALLY bad. That’s…all I can say.

I thoroughly enjoyed the original film, both American and Japanese incarnations (though I prefered the American version), but this just felt like an insult to the original. A “Poltergeist 2″-calibur insult.

By giving Samara more personality and motivation she becomes a great deal LESS terrifying. In the original she was this unstoppable entity that clammored out of your television set and messed you up like nobody’s business.

This “new” Samara is now some attention-starved little twerp who desperately wants a hug. Her whole motivating goal in the movie is to possess the lead heroine’s son so she can have a “Mommy”. It’s not scary. It’s not even entertaining.

The scary-factor fails again, in that we’ve seen all of it before in the original. Seeing the same scares again is just…redundant. The ending where they “defeat” Samara is particularly lackluster, and even after the heroine makes her “witty quip” you’ll still be left thinking “WTF?”.

Again, I must make a comparrison to Poltergeist 2. The original Poltergeist was a ghost-story to the core, some crazy special effects, but a ghost story never-the-less. The sequel, on the other hand, had to throw in giant worm-monsters, out-of-control evil braces, and Craig T. Nelson battling an ancient demon with a magical spear in another dimension.

Well, Ring 2 departs from the original in a similar fashion. The original is a ghost story and a mystery story all wrapped into one. The sequel ends with the heroine racing Samara (similar to the final level of Duck Tales on the NES) within some whacky “television dimension”. Yeah.

And then there’s the sequence with the evil CGI elk trashing the car. That was as bad as the evil CGI wolves that acted like velociraptors in The Day After Tomorrow. But what made that scene ten times WORSE for me, personally, was that there were two obnoxious ethnic stereotypes sitting behind me screaming “Aww sheeeeit! Dey’z gots BEEF, dawg! Dey’z gots BEEF! DAY-YUM BOOOOIIIIII!!” Good God.

This movie is worse than an F. At least bad movies like Troll 2 and Rock n Roll Nightmare have a hilarity-factor to keep them entertaining. This was just stupid AND boring.