Insidious: Chapter 2 Reviews
Examiner.com
The mix is way off this time and much of it has to do with Wan falling back on standard horror tactics.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
The Playlist
Wilson's new role is that of stock Lifetime-movie aggressor, veering between tortured monologues and ham-fisted apologies to the hysterical Byrne, who stumbles through the film like a Mr. Magoo caught in cobwebs.
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| Original Score: D
MLive.com
Despite its assured direction, the sequel to 2011's Insidious insists upon trotting out the hoary clichés of countless scarefests before it.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Daily Star
Clever isn't the same as scary. It's the unexplained, not the over-explained, that tingles the spine.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Little White Lies
Drown it in ectoplasm.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Examiner.com
Insidious: Chapter 2 has a slower pace and a lighter tone than the original film. The jump-out scares have been tucked away and are more methodical in execution. However the sequel will likely not be as much of a crowd-pleaser as Insidious.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Irish Times
Less than two months after securing a deserved word-of-mouth hit with The Conjuring, James Wan serves up a turkey with this confused, crudely staged sequel.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The List
Considerably less grounded in any kind of recognizable reality than the first chapter.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Top CriticAll the standard spooks pop up: creepy baby toys, a piano that plays itself, a lady in white roaming the house, predictable jump-scares galore.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Willamette Week
The scariest thing about it is that there will probably be a Chapter 3.
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| Original Score: C-
The Ooh Tray
The movie finds itself haunted by a three-headed beast: incoherence, illogicality and contrivance.
Though there's some admirably clever plotting to interweave the film's second half with events in the original, it's simply not as scary.
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| Original Score: 5/10
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
More silly than sinister
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| Original Score: 2/4
Seven Days
Egregious would be a better title than Insidious.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Birmingham Mail
Wan reintroduces the 21st century curse of digital sound effects overkill. By the end, you'll be watching "Din-sidious".
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| Original Score: 3/5
Insidious: Chapter 2 is not only unnecessary but it commits the cardinal sin of devaluing its predecessor.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
An increasing amount of metaphysical backtracking dilutes the few simple jolts that do work this time around.
Movie Dearest
Sloppily made, with a sensationalized subplot involving gender identity issues that left a bad taste in my mouth. One of the year's biggest cinematic disappointments.
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| Original Score: C-
Digital Spy
James Wan's desultory sequel lazily trots out the same procession of scare techniques but with vastly diminished returns.
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| Original Score: 2/5
