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Jeepers Creepers 2
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists
MPAA 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.
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Victor Salva (also characters)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Victor Salva
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 23, 2003
Video: December 23, 2003
Theatrical: August 29, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
103 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / Netherlands |

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...
75
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.

70
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.

70
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.

60
Variety
Andy Klein
Substantially better than its predecessor, even while staying strictly within the genre's well-defined boundaries.

60
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
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.

50
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.

42
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.

40
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.

40
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
Salva directs cheap thrills effectively, but his own apparent desires come off more frightening than any winged demon.

40
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.

40
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.

38
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.

38
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.

38
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.

38
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.

38
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.

38
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.

38
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.

30
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.

30
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Functional but tiresome.

25
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.

25
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.

25
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.

12
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.

12
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The worst horror sequel of this or many another summer.

0
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.


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