Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Woodyanders Sole survivor Marybeth (well played with plucky aplomb by Danielle Harris) ventures back into the murky Louisiana swamp with shifty charlatan occultist Reverend Zombie (smoothly essayed to the slimy hilt by Tony Todd) and a team of hick hired guns to get revenge on legendary maniac Victor Crowley (hulking behemoth Kane Hodder in fine ferocious form) for killing her friends and family.Writer/director Adam Green gleefully wallows in the hyper-gory mire with this go-for-the-jugular follow-up which not only delivers buckets of spurting blood and oodles of outrageously excessive over-the-top splatter that runs the grisly gamut from decapitations to bodies being messily cut in half, but also tosses in some yummy gratuitous female nudity, a little raunchy sex, broadly drawn redneck supporting characters, and a blithely lowbrow sense of humor for trashy good measure. Moreover, it's acted with zest by a game cast: R.A. Mihailoff as two-fisted roughhouse Trent, Tom Holland as Marybeth's protective uncle Bob, Perry Shen as bumbling coward Justin, AJ Bowen as the amiable Layton, David Foy as the antsy Chad, Alexis Kendra as the spunky Avery, Ed Ackerman as the scruffy Cleatus, and Colton Dunn as obnoxious hipster Vernon. Andy Garfield's shivery score hits the spirited shivery spot. Will Barratt's slick cinematography provides a pleasing polished look. Good gruesome fun.

Leofwine_draca I really enjoyed the first HATCHET film, which perfectly captured the spirit of a 1980s-era slasher film. It was replete with funny characters and dialogue, great prosthetic effects, and a wonderfully old-fashioned atmosphere and feel. So where did it all go wrong for this sequel? Well, it appears to have been written on the fly, with a storyline that copies EXACTLY the same plot as the first film: a group visit the bayous in the middle of the night, with the twist that they're now out to hunt down and destroy the supernatural killer Victor Crowley. Hell, they even bring back Parry Shen, whose character died in the first movie (by virtue of him playing the guy's twin brother).Everything that sparkled about the first film has gone in HATCHET II, to be replaced by a boring script and a dearth of imagination. The gore effects are more extreme but at the same time sillier and with worse effects, and somehow Kane Hodder's killer just doesn't look as frightening. He looks goofy, like an alien from a 1980s movie, whereas in the first film he was kept in the shadows a lot and all the more frightening for it.Finally, Danielle Harris is a poor replacement for the original actress. The one good thing this has going for it is a substantial part for Tony Todd, who merely cameoed in the first movie. Todd is great, but it's not enough to lift the film to greatness. My favourite thing about this? Emma Bell's cameo, which is a lovely reference for anyone who's seen and enjoyed the director's FROZEN.

megoobee This is pretty much the premise of Hatchet II, a bunch of stupid people get slaughtered in amusing ways. The kills were both gory and creative, more than enough to satisfy the most hardcore gore aficionados.What let the movie down was the lack of a good story...actually...it lacked any story. Movie summary in one sentence - Assemble a group of people and herd them down to the swamp to get killed. End of movie.The female protagonist was too stupid to think she would not get killed. Apparently surviving a previous encounter with Victor was not enough, she needed to face him again and let him have another go at her. No sane person with half a brain cell would go back out to relive their previous horrors. Of course, her stupidity reigned supreme and she survived another encounter with the killer.I will say that this sequel is better than the first one. Not by much but better.

witster18 I'd say the first half of Hatchet 2 is a bit sillier and even campier than the first, but the films last half-hour really makes up for it.THis is one seriously gory flick. It's gorier than the original, and funnier than the original. It might actually be better than the original, but it's an awfully tight race.Adam Green still has me on the edge of my seat waiting for his next horror project. Guess I'll have to wait for the DVD release of Hatchet 3 next month - even though he didn't direct.Hatchet 2 is a little better than the original on the acting/cast front as well. In the original we see a bunch of undeveloped boobs getting knocked-off left and right. Here, there's a little more substance to who's getting their heads ripped off.This thing gets pretty intense down the stretch. Thumbs up.