Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Shilo "Jeepers Creepers" scared the complete hell out of me and was, for the most part, effective and a scary picture. That's a sad note when the sequel "Jeepers Creepers 2" features a fourth-rate cast who can't act, dialogue that sounds like ten-year-old kids fighting with each other and a villain, now called "The Creeper" being on a first class ticket to a third-rate movie."It's about a group of kids on their way home from a basketball game when their school bus is broken down on the side of the road. They soon discover the bus breaking down was no accident and The Creeper (Jonathan Beck), who is on the final day of its 23-day eating- spree has chosen the kids for one final meal before he goes back to sleep for 23 years. The kids attempt to stay alive and fight back while a farmer, Jack Taggert (Ray Wise), who has a personal vendetta against the beast, races to save the kids before it's too late.The had a setup with "Jeepers Creepers" and "Jeepers Creepers 2" throws it right off the tracks with stupidity and characters that are annoying to listen to, to dumb to watch and none of them can act. This is not the sequel we were hoping for. The original was a road picture with the Creeper in the shadows and this screenplay gives us a story where the Creeper attacks a bus full of dummies. It's not scary and the attempted claustrophobic setting on the bus doesn't work either. They attempt to use this setting by making the Creeper selective about who it wants but who cares when we don't care about any of the characters who are simply lunch.It opens well enough, like the original. This time there is no church or anything. The Creeper poses as a scarecrow on a farm and when he is discovered, he takes off with the farmer's young son, Billy (Shaun Fleming) to set up a subplot of the picture. We felt bad for, Trish (Gina Phillip) and Darry (Justin Long) in the original as they drove for their lives and we feel bad for the farmer Taggert but we know he will end up hunting the Creeper and possibly getting revenge. So what do have to look forward to? Not much.Everything revolves around these kids hoping to be rescued from the Creeper. He disables the bus by blowing out the tires with some interesting throwing stars and picks off the adults in charge before attempting to descend on the kids. As usual, there's the nerd, the smart one, the know-it-all and there's the foul-mouthed idiot who will most likely end up getting himself and everyone killed because he is too stupid to think. I'll get to that idiot later. He was my main source of frustration for the movie.What's really disappointing is that we are not given anything involving the farmer. He opened the picture but he becomes a second-rate character who we don't see much of until the last half of the third act. He travels the road with his son, Jack Jr. (Luke Edwards) as they attempt to save the kids. Yes, there is a showdown and Taggert spares no mercy to the Creeper but it's pretty dumb when the third act of the picture has him shooting the Creeper over and over to no effect with homemade harpoons launched from the back of his truck with a rigged up post- puncher.Anyway, the Creeper attacks the bus and eventually they are forced out on the deserted road, by the aforementioned idiot, with the Creeper flying high to easily pick them off. This dummy, Scotty (Eric Nenninger) is the typical moron with a mouth who acts like he knows what he's doing when he doesn't and when they all discover why the Creeper is targeting them and what he does, they panic and make stupid decisions. How do they find out? Apparently, one of the girls on the bus, Minxie (Nicki Aycox) is psychic and tells them they have until the next morning to survive before the Creeper goes to sleep for 23 years. A lonely teenage basketball cheerleader is psychic and knows about the creeper from a dead boy? Yeah...okay. Why doesn't the Creeper just break into the bus and grab them? He intentionally locks them in the bus for the majority of the picture to make sure they don't get out, why? He was such a menace in the original and now he seems to be playing with the kids. Maybe he knows how stupid they are and that eventually, they will try to find a way out of the bus and run where they can become easy targets? The Creeper must be smart because that is exactly what these idiots do even after they were told to hold out until the morning where they will be safe which seems like only a few hours by the end.There is too much stupidity going on to care but the ending sets up "Jeepers Creepers 3" and because of the way this one ends, it could be interesting but don't hold your breath if it's anything like this sequel. As it stands, it's a disappointing and wasted attempt of a thriller that doesn't live up to the original in any way. Speaking of disappointing, you remember in the original how we only learned about what the Creeper does? Well, we learn nothing new about him in this picture either. We don't learn where he came from or, most of all, what he is and why he does what he does. That's a huge slap in the face that I'm sure audiences were hoping to find out and we learn nothing. Hopefully, "Jeepers Creepers 3" will be much better.

Leofwine_draca Having absolutely despised the first JEEPERS CREEPERS when I was unfortunate enough to see it in cinemas, it was with a heavy heart I sat down to watch this, the sequel. However, for the sake of completeness I forced myself to go ahead with it, even though I was expecting the worst. At least I wasn't wasting money to see it this time, as I caught it on TV. To be honest, I still can't understand how Victor Salva is working in Hollywood; why he's earning a living from this material. He's directed terrible movie after terrible movie and yet they still give him budgets.I was still wasting two hours of my life. The one good thing about JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 is that it's a slight improvement on its predecessor. There's even less of a story to this one, just an action-focused scenario about a group of teenagers stranded on a bus being attacked and killed, one by one, by the demonic enemy. The writing is even sloppier and unfocused than before, and there are no characters here at all – just an interchangeable group of well-groomed youngsters waiting to be killed. Saying that, most of the cast suddenly disappears without explanation about halfway through, so I wondered why they bothered with them in the first place.The film is just a series of gory killings and endless repetition as the Creeper is mutilated or killed only to come back to life again. There's one good gag, making use of some exceptional CGI, in which a headless body writhes around for a moment, but even that's ripped off from RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD. The rest of this is silly indeed, just boring scenes of vehicle chases and people shooting or harpooning the Creeper with scant regard for retaining the audience's interest. From the vapid opening sequence to the sequel-friendly epilogue, JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 is soulless entertainment for the masses.

skybrick736 Salva returns as both a writer and director to his successful fright film, Jeepers Creepers. Now according to the Scream franchise, one of the rules about sequels is that the death toll always has to be much higher. Jeepers Creepers 2 is case and point when it comes to that having a plethora of characters that don't have a purpose other than being a potential victim to The Creeper. Salva's sacrifice of character development and story for more action and scares did stagger the flow of the movie a bit but it wasn't a game-breaker. The Creeper scenes looked really good and the monster was shown a little personality this time around, which was rather cool to see. This film is a solid follow-up and another good effort by Victor Salva to his Jeepers Creepers series.

Dom Nickson Spoiler Alert!!! OK I'll start of by saying I didn't care at all about the teen characters because they were all useless in the end anyways. Justin Long reprises his role for no apparent reason I mean I think it should of been Gina Phillips because her character didn't die and at the end you get the feeling she wants to kill the creature in revenge. This sequel is all about how many off-screen kills they could get. Almost 90% percent of the kills were off-screen which is very disappointing. This sequel is really a cluster bomb of a story line like seriously why does there need to be a curse of Jeepers Creepers coming out to eat? It only really ate people if that person had something the creeper wanted. Here though the creeper kills as many of the people he could possibly kill and it just isn't as fun as the original where he has his eyes set on only 2 teenage characters. This is a disappointing sequel I thought and give it a 4 out of 10. I mean at least it had some decent scary scenes.