Urban Legends: Final Cut

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

You're smarter than this, but occasionally it tricks you into thinking it might be up to something you haven't considered, like an above-average, extra-bloody episode of "Scooby Doo."

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Has slick production credits and performances that are quite adequate given the (narrow) opportunities of the genre.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Has a dark, low-budget feel and an incongruous combination of self-consciously jokey patter and gross-out gore.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack

Schlock, but amusing schlock.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Although it's recycled from start to finish, there are some decent jokes laced throughout, plus enough gore to satisfy the most bloodthirsty tastes.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

You cease to care as they fall back on a catalogue of clichéd shocks, tired camera angles and an ever-mounting gore quotient.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Awful in ways that are just clever enough often enough to make it intermittently watchable.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Preposterous plotting and interchangeable young actors.

Miami Herald Sara Wildberger

Sophomoric.

LA Weekly Paul Malcolm

Wears its lack of originality in a crowded slasher marketplace like a red badge of desperation.

Film.com Gemma Files

Basically a dressed-up piece of drivel, a self-referential pseudo-thriller with pretensions to pretensions of classic Hollywood suspense.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Doesn't do much with its pseudosavvy characters.

Salon.com Mary Elizabeth Williams

Predictable, gratuitous and just self-referential enough to believe itself hip and knowing.

The New York Times Dave Kehr

Ottman doesn't have the firm grasp of tone necessary to make his deliberate ambiguities seem other than simple confusion, nor the sense of humor necessary to turn the deliberate clichés into effective satire.

Los Angeles Times David Chute

Has promising raw material to burn--and that's pretty much what's been done.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Simply a lousy film from start to finish.

Village Voice Nick Rutigliano

Simply less campily moronic than its predecessor, a tired kill-by-numbers.

Chicago Tribune John Petrakis

It's hard not to feel angry that you've spent almost two hours watching this moronic exercise.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Just plain bad.

Variety Robert Koehler

A poorer film than the paltry original even as it strikes a self-consciously clever pose.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

The only quandary in this film is in where to begin despising it.

Film.com John Hartl

If you've seen one "Scream" rip-off, you really have seen them all.

Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark

As for genuine willies, well, chances are you've had more disturbing encounters with, say, a belligerent Shih Tzu.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

No style, no irony and no smarts, just a vicious streak that lasts 90 minutes.

Entertainment Weekly Ty Burr

Debased swill.