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Critics Consensus: Insidious: Chapter 2 is decidedly short on the tension and surprises that made its predecessor so chilling.
Critic Consensus: Insidious: Chapter 2 is decidedly short on the tension and surprises that made its predecessor so chilling.
All Critics (120) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (73) | DVD (1)
Most of [Wan's] peers shoot a bunch of scenes and let the editor make a smoothie. Wan no longer relies on visual gibberish. He has become a classicist in that sense.
Characters in Whannell/Wan screenplays speak with the first-draft expository bluntness of a cheap '50s thriller, letting the characters step on some of the best reveals.
Insidious: Chapter 2 is a puzzle movie with too many unnecessary pieces and not enough essential ones, but it's superior to its predecessor in a few basic ways.
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.
Insidious: Chapter 2 is not only unnecessary but it commits the cardinal sin of devaluing its predecessor.
An increasing amount of metaphysical backtracking dilutes the few simple jolts that do work this time around.
Not as good as the first film in the franchise, but it does a good enough job in continuing the spooky narrative.
Well, the gang are all back for a second helping of manufactured lunacy. Routinely, Chapter 2 tap dances to the tepid trappings of its conventional creepiness while never challenging the audience beyond the opportunistic reboot
Product placement is the most insidious thing in the movie.
Director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell resurrect the supernatural scares of Insidious, but without the innovative spark of the original.
Insidious 2 really wants you to be happy, but it's far too much of an uneven mess to do it very well.
Insidious Chapter 2 is tense and intriguing. If you haven't seen the previous film, this might work better for you. Also, for the fainthearted, if you analyze your dreams way too much or face sleep disorders, stay away.
A solid and entertaining sequel that not only maintains the high level of scares found in the terrifying original movie, especially in its first half, but also has an ingenious plot structure that makes up for its poor attempts at humor (which are always misplaced).
Super Reviewer
A second suspenseful instalment that doesn't disappoint! Loved the first and loved this sequel, I love how they interlinked them both!
Again, it was pretty decent, and I really liked how it tied together with the first one.
James Wan still knows how to pull off some cool, if not scary, haunted house sequences. But none of the problems from the first Insidious have been fixed, and now the novelty is gone. Insidious: Chapter 2 complicates its scenarios with too much backstory. Its twists are predictable and the film seems too concerned with building a franchise than making an entertaining movie.
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