Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

horrorflicklover It's unfortunate that this show never found an audience. It was far and away the best Saved by the Bell incarnation to have existed. Much better than the original and The New Class. Provided, I was a little kid when the original SBTB was on the air. And I watched it. And I still occasionally do when it's on. But that's mostly nostalgia. It was truly a BAD show, and I never would have gotten in to it had it been after my time.The College Years was a much better show in terms of both writing and acting. There's a lot of reasons for this. The returning actors had four years to grow in to their characters on the original show. So not only had they become better actors, they knew their roles well by this point. This show was meant to appeal to fans of the original, who grew up with the show. So these fans themselves were a little older. The comedy is a bit "older". Not in the sense of more adult or risqué. But that it was meant for mid-late teenagers, as opposed to the early-mid teenagers and younger that they were during the original. I'll delve in to that in the next paragraph.Another factor was the different writing staff. I'm hard pressed to believe that this show employed the same writers. But even if it had, they definitely changed the writing style. With an older audience and a prime time slot, this show had to vary from the Saturday morning children's show writing style of the original. This show was MUCH funnier than the original. Much more believable, and with much less cringe-worthy moments. You know, those moments when you feel EMBARRASSED for the actors due to their dialog or the plot. It's just that bad, and you know it.All in all, I thought this was a solid, funny, pretty well done family show. Was it hilarious? Was it one of the best family shows out there? Not really. But I thought it had it's moments. Many more moments than the original, that's for sure. Had it actually stuck around, I think it would have developed in to a much more likable show. I would give it a 7, which is maybe a little too generous. It was definitely better than the other two incarnations. It's just a shame that unlike them, it never found an audience.

tfrizzell One prime-time season on NBC's Tuesday night lineup was deadly poison for the "Saved by the Bell" series sequel. The prime characters from the precursor (Mark Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Dustin Diamond and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) do indeed go to college but have not really grown up or matured much. They still do their tiring routines in a different location and with different supporting cast members. The substance here just does not translate into night-time network viewing. The lack of depth or complexity to the characters and situations is much more apparent as the core performers have finally out-grown their childish roles. The once cute routines border on being down-right annoying and totally unwanted. Mercifully died after 23 episodes. 2 stars out of 5.

gothamite27 "Saved By The Bell" was a ridiculously wacky and zany affair, what with its occasional science-fiction oriented episodes (I recall one episode where Screech developed the ability to read minds!) and the acting was atrocious. The sets were horribly plastic and you could tell that you were watching a TV show. It never felt real."Saved By The Bell: The College Years" is quite a sophisticated situation comedy that doesn't always follow the same formula, as the original mostly did. Unlike the original, the characters develop throughout the series, and their strengths and weaknesses are drawn out more consistently. Also, the 'girlfriend of the week' plot tool is completely thrown out. Zach is never seen with a girlfriend who has been dumped by the following episode.My theory for the cancellation of this above-average show is that unlike the kiddy-oriented original, this series was far more sophisticated and probably had a hard time finding its audience, which led to its cancellation.The result was one final crack: a TV movie. Heinous at best, crap at worst.Nevertheless, this series is definitely worth watching.

nevsky41 My brother recently purchased the DVD set of SBTBTCY, and I've watched the entire series a couple of times. I've decided this series was given up on by NBC far too early.I hadn't seen this show for about a decade, and watching it again, even though it's 12 years old now, I've decided it had way too much potential to have been canceled so quickly. I found myself belly-laughing more than once.The pilot episode is probably the weakest one, but it didn't take long for the show to begin to click, and even though it had a bit of a cartoony feel to it at times, that was pretty par for the course in the early 90s for sitcoms. The middle episodes are by far the best written and produced, I think Zack & Kelly story was supposed to be a cliffhanger moment to start the second season off with, but instead, we got the "Wedding in Las Vegas" movie. At least we got some resolution.I think NBC either had high expectations for this show or never felt serious about, considering they ran it against Full House, which was either a huge sign on confidence or a death sentence from the onset. Whatever the intention, they gave up on the show WAY too early, as it was actually much better written than Full House, I guess not enough fans followed it from Saturday morning like I did.So "The College Years" didn't even really tell the story of their entire freshman year, and it's a shame. This show had so much potential that was left untapped, it's sad. I guess I'll just have to make do with the 18 episodes we do have.