Moments that add up to a bit more than incoherence ... and an overall sense that Zombie has a clear idea of what he's trying to say but is without the skill to say it.
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09/01/09
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Halloween II (2009)
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Reviews Counted:67
Fresh:14
Rotten:53
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: Zombie shows flashes of vision in the follow-up to his Halloween reboot, but they're smothered by mountains of gore and hackneyed, brutal violence.
Theatrical Release:Aug 28, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $33,335,670
Synopsis: Rob Zombie returns to the world of HALLOWEEN with this sequel to his film.
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Tyler Mane, Sheri Moon Zombie, Brad Dourif
Director: Rob Zombie
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Reviews for Halloween II
Panders to the base seekers of cheap thrills.
09/01/09
Halloween II is full of in jokes and references but nearly devoid of wit.
09/01/09
You didn't think Michael Myers was dead, did you?
09/01/09
[Halloween II] offers up a rush of fiercely imagined nightmare images.
09/01/09
Top CriticZombie walks the walk, you can't deny it. And he's found the medium where he can let his freak flag fly highest.
09/01/09
Most of its 101 minutes are filled with routine slasher scenes and flecks of pop-Freudian hokum about why the infamous Michael Myers (Tyler Mane) is such a murderously unhappy guy.
09/01/09
Zombie has talent to burn, but he’s slumming here, and one suspects that he knows it.
09/01/09
This umpteenth feature about the unstoppable masked killer Michael Myers could be the work of any journeyman, give or take a few hundred gratuitous pop-culture references.
09/01/09
This one represents Rob Zombie's "vision." That being the case, he's blind.
09/01/09
Top CriticZombie remains committed to showing how violence lingers with, and perverts, all who are touched by it, yet his carnivalesque approach often undercuts his very real empathy.
09/01/09
With his new sequel, Zombie spends less time paying tribute and more time getting inventive, with mixed results.
09/01/09
Let’s float a notion: Rob Zombie is the greatest horror-movie director never to make a great movie.
09/01/09
The only thing "new" about this movie is that the gore has gotten more explicit.
08/31/09
Zombie isn’t a storyteller, he’s a wallower. And because his movies take place in a culture of violence and sadism, there’s nothing for Michael Myers to do except echo what’s already there and slaughter weaker sadists.
08/31/09
Top CriticThere are bits and images in this film that would ensure praise from the horror-fan crowd if they weren't in a Halloween movie directed by Rob Zombie.
08/30/09
It's not one of those so-bad-it's-good, or B-movie fun (MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D), this is a serious and genuine shocker. If you like Zombie's sadistic offbeat humor and his filmmaking style, you'll eat this up.
08/29/09
Ultra-gory sequel/remake is brutally violent, badly made.
08/29/09
... the only point to Rob Zombie's unfocused and oft-times boring sequel appears to be in making (his previous) remake look like genius in comparison.
08/29/09
Zombie redeems himself with Halloween II but let's hope this is the last we see of Michael Myers for a while.
08/29/09
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