The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
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Critics Consensus: This sequel is little more than an excuse to stage elaborate, gory scenes of characters getting killed off.
Critic Consensus: This sequel is little more than an excuse to stage elaborate, gory scenes of characters getting killed off.
All Critics (111) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (58) | DVD (15)
When a horror flick gets tedious, it's DOA.
Part of the fun here is anticipating the Rube Goldberg-style machinations by which Death catches up with its targets.
That there is an audience for a movie in which innocent people suffer hideous accidental deaths is troubling enough, but that a group of creative people chose to direct their energies on this repulsive spectacle simply provokes disgust.
The filmmakers clearly set out to make a film that featured lots of footage of really disgusting annihilations, then threw together a haphazard script and hired a few hot actors to play the corpses.
It's sick, stupid stuff, and intentionally so.
You'll gasp, you'll flinch, you'll cringe, but mostly you'll scream.
Final Destination 2 is legitimately an excellent movie; it's a fun and suspenseful film that manages to improve on the original in every way while also standing entirely on its own.
Just the fact that it manages to keep the viewer involved despite the plot's general ridiculousness makes it the most effective Vancouver-shot horror flick in years.
Gruesome, ridiculous, really bad waste of time.
Now that the ground rules have been established for the Final Destination movies, the fun lies in seeing the inventive ways in which the writers dispatch the various characters in the sequel.
Decent at best this is a lighter, campier, but gorier sequel to the original.
Even more than Part 1, the real stars of this movie are the elegantly choreographed freak accidents.
This sequel deserves credit for its spectacular first sequence, which is really tense and well made. What follows, though, is more tongue-in-cheek, making fun of Death's ingenious traps and with an intriguing idea about how the plot is influenced by the events of the first film.
Super Reviewer
4 stars, and that only for the blow-you-outta-yer-seat opening. The rest is the series typical Death as an implacable, invisible prankster force-of-nature ... and I can live with that. Don't get too attached to any characters.
three stars
Hey, I still enjoyed it. The premise was still fresh and creepy.
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