This boring rehash has not one decent scare, its most unforgivable trait.
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03/24/05
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The Ring Two (2005)
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Reviews Counted:176
Fresh:36
Rotten:140
Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: Ring Two serves up horror cliches, and not even Hideo Nakata, the director of the movies from which this one is based, can save the movie from a dull screenplay full of absurdities.
Theatrical Release:Mar 18, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $75,888,270
Synopsis: In this horror sequel from Japanese master Hideo Nakata, the curse of the videotape returns. Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and her son Aiden (David Dorfman) move from Seattle after their first... [More]
Starring: Naomi Watts, David Dorfman, Simon Baker, Sissy Spacek
Director: Hideo Nakata
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Reviews for The Ring Two
This pallid follow-up to 2002's most frightening film plays like an auction for abandoned horror-flick props and icons.
03/24/05
Samara has been reduced to the ghost in The Grudge -- complete with gastric-distress noises. Apparently, there's no Alka Seltzer in the afterlife.
03/24/05
A hemorrhaging film whose greatest sin is that it's unremittingly dull.
03/23/05
I wish someone had slapped the video from the first movie into my theater’s reel so that I could have avoided having to sit through the rest of this boring disaster.
03/22/05
The let's-travel-through-the-TV-screen sequence was better in Fat Albert.
03/22/05
A long, exhausting and pointless 111-minute exercise in red herrings, dead-end justifications and contrived horror situations.
03/22/05
Proof positive that most sequels are bad ideas.
03/21/05
While the original kept you awake all night as you left the lights on and spooned your plush Pound Puppy–the sequel induces a sound slumber in seconds.
03/21/05
I thought the original had a nice evil chill to it, but this is an unnecessary second chapter that dumbs down all the main characters and is curiously lacking in quality scares.
03/21/05
Top CriticThe Ring Two is a rather tedious affair, heavy on atmosphere, but light on story. It’s a silly bunch of hogwash, a pale shadow of the original.
03/21/05
Sluggish and uninspiring, the sequel to the hit film doesn't live up to the first.
03/21/05
Under difficult circumstances, the actors admirably keep straight faces.
03/21/05
The franchise goes from the fear of death to, 'Oooh, he's getting colder, that's soooo scary' - NOT.
03/21/05
Extraordinarily boring.
03/20/05
[T]his is a film that seems to be making the argument that it’s OK for a mother to kill her child if the “voices” tell her to... [It] leaves a really bad taste.
03/20/05
Forgets the mood and atmosphere from the original and tries to replace them with cheap thrills and manufactured manipulation.
03/20/05
So predictably beholden to its predecessor that you can practically smell the reek of formula cooling on its hide.
03/20/05
Naomi's son Aidan has to be the most inner-directed child of all time. As he explained, 'You'd be introverted too if your imaginary friends had imaginary friends.'
03/20/05
While its plot defies any sort of coherent explanation, fans of the movie will no doubt try, and in doing so find a bizarre sort of joy in justifying it.
03/20/05
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