Harefooted Halloween: The Ring Two

What I Liked: The opening scene with the dickhead teen trying to get some girl to watch the tape so he can be off the hook is good…until Samara shows up.  Then the guy’s death gets kinda weak.

Also in that opening scene they show us an interesting situation which leads to some food for thought.  If you put the tape on but close your eyes and don’t actually watch it do you still get cursed?  If you don’t get the curse then wouldn’t that make blind people immune to the tape?  What if you only saw a part of the tape and not the whole thing?  Cursed or not cursed?  What if you didn’t put your glasses on and you could kinda see the images on the tape a little but really it’s blurry as shit?  Cursed or not cursed?

The part where the doctor injects a syringe of air into her neck was a cool death.

It was funny when Rachel says her one liner “I’m not your fucking mommy”.  It’s incredibly silly but also sorta badass.

What I Didn’t Like: Everything else.

Overall Impression: Shifting the story to focus on Aidan was such a big mistake.  He was awful and horribly annoying in the first movie and he’s even worse here.  He’s not scary, he’s a way too serious not-at-all-like-a-real-kid kid.

And when you throw in stupid shit that doesn’t belong in a Ring movie, like the deer attack scene, and just other unnecessary crap, like finding out Samara’s mother is actually alive and locked away in a mental hospital, then you get a messy and unthoughtful picture.

The Ring Two feels like a movie that nobody was into making.  If you haven’t checked out the original Japanese Ringu and Ringu 2 then I would suggest seeing those first if you’re hungry for more of this series.