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Jeepers Creepers 2
EMAILPRINTMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 29 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 23 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Victor Salva (also characters)
Directed by: Victor Salva
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 29, 2003
DVD: December 23, 2003
Running Time: 103 minutes, Color
Origin: USA / Netherlands
Summary
RATING: R for horror violence and language
Starring Ray Wise, Jonathan Breck, Travis Schiffner, Nicki Lynn Aycox, Drew Tyler Bell, Billy Aaron Brown, Marieh Delfino, and Luke Edwards
Set soon after the events of the first film, a group of basketball players, coaches, cheerleaders, and their friends on the bus going home from the state championship find themselves attacked by a winged people-eating monster called the Creeper (Breck), as he continues his 23-day-long feeding frenzy.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Like its predecessor, Jeepers Creepers 2 is that rare modern horror film that remembers audiences are scared far more by what they don't see than by what they do. For that alone, horror fans should be thankful.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
There's greater consistency to it, and considerably more humor, with macabre slapstick and fun-house ghoulishness that, at their best, recall early Tim Burton.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Jeepers Creepers aimed for the archetypal primal spookiness of a scary campfire tale, and halfway succeeded. Here, Salva makes it work virtually every step of the way.
Read Full Review >Variety Andy Klein
Substantially better than its predecessor, even while staying strictly within the genre's well-defined boundaries.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The tag here is more silly than haunting, but this is still a pretty wild ride, with a fine, knife-wielding score by Bennett Salvay.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Would be a completely routine horror movie, except that it has a superior director. Watch this film for five minutes, and it's clear that Victor Salva knows how to make movies.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dave Kehr
You don't have to be a horror-movie scholar to know that nothing significant is going to happen in any movie with "2" in the title; the creature has to stay around long enough at least to complete a trilogy and fill out a nice boxed set of DVD's.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Greg Milner
An apparent Atkins devotee, he eschews the carb-heavy corn fields, opting for protein-rich human flesh, primarily a high school basketball team returning home on a lonely highway.
Read Full Review >Premiere Kelly Borgeson
Viewers should hope Jeepers 2 is the final act in this series. The once-promising Creeper, who we see up close this time, has emerged as a garden-variety killer.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown
Writer-director Victor Salva squanders all of his original movie's not-entirely-awfulness and bumbles into the realm of unintentional comedy.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Kevin Carr
A decidedly sharp drop in quality from the first film. Its still a somewhat decent horror flick if youre looking for cheap scares and eerie imagery.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
Salva directs cheap thrills effectively, but his own apparent desires come off more frightening than any winged demon.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
The problem once again remains an inability to sustain those de rigueur elements of tension and suspense much beyond those first 20 minutes.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The film delivers a few slick thrills before beaching itself on an ending that would be chilling if its depiction of unimaginable horror's lingering legacy weren't so muddled.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
There are some nicely gory touches for genre connoisseurs...But JC2 lacks the all-important character development we got in the first installment.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
It plays better as exasperating comedy than genuine horror -- although there is something terrifying about being stuck in a movie whose idea of a bogeyman is a scarecrow with an eating disorder.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
There are a few good jolts - and a moderate amount of spurting blood - but things pretty much proceed exactly as you think they will.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Ellen Fox
Horror movies don't have to make sense in the real world, but when you have to help their internal logic along this much, it's pretty much a cue for heckling -- or checking your watch.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
This low-budget, high-gore sequel can be effectively frightening at times, and just plain boring, too. The suspense builds, the blood gushes, the momentum dissipates. It's an unsatisfying mix.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson
The monster isn't very interesting (or scary) to look at: he's just an oily, overgrown gremlin.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Want to see a movie where almost everything takes place on a bus? Try "Speed." Jeepers Creepers 2 isn't even worth a peek.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
Where the first "Jeepers Creepers" came across like a dark, wacky dream, the inevitable Jeepers Creepers 2 seems more like a franchise under construction.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Supplies us with a first-class creature, a fourth-rate story, and dialogue possibly created by feeding the screenplay into a pasta maker.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Charles Savage
A stark regression from the intelligence of the Scream franchise, this teen horror sequel is about as satisfying as low-budget food that's been under the heat lamps too long.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paul West
What results is a movie as vacuous as the characters on screen. It's not often a movie makes you yearn for the energy and half-baked artistry of "Freddy vs. Jason," but there you have it.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
The thrills, chills, frights, starts and occasional screams that a good horror film elicits from an audience are not there. Jeepers, the Creeper has little to recommend it.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
The worst horror sequel of this or many another summer.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Hopefully, someone will grab the torch and, if not run with it, at the very least track down and set fire to the highly combustible prints of this inexcusably inept yawn-a-thon - it's not so much bad as it is unfathomable.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 23 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
ricky m. gave it a10:
Even better the second time around another macabre masterpiece from victor salva.
Gavin C gave it a4:
The original BECAME bad. This one starts off bad.
Alec B. gave it a9:
[***SPOILERS***] funny to watched people get slaughtered by the advanced form of a dragon fly.
John C. gave it a10:
This movie was really great. I loved it.
Jared R. gave it a10:
I don't know, it seems that a lot of people don't like this movie. I thought it was great. Victor salva did a really good job on this one. It's much better than the first. And it's a different kind of horror movie. They actually kill the stupid thing with a homemade harpoon. That's awesome.
Emily S. gave it a 0:
At a girly sleepover, you would expect a teen horror to get everyone screaming and grabbing for the nearest cushin. You wouldnt expect half of the participants to fall asleep, while the rest pointed out faults with the direction and acting. Well, thats what happened in this one, the musical score creates no atmosphere, and all attempts at making suspence is ruined by the unintentional comic genius that is this movie. I practically pissed myself with laughter when one of the jocks has his head ripped off, the decapitated body starts running around like a headless chicken. Truly Inspired.
Gordo A. gave it a 5:
Stupid Movie. It wasn't scary like the first one. And its not good like the first one.
