Every 23rd spring for 23 days it gets to eat!...the
opening title of Jeepers Creepers 2. Next scene ...subtitle:
Day 22.... cut to a little boy fixing three scarecrows (in
what I presumed was his family’s farm)...predictably,
he notices that the third scarecrow does not look right.
The young boy approaches the scarecrow and…the movie
has officially begun. I’ll have to give director Victor
Salva credit for trying to supply us with shivers, but unfortunately
Jeepers Creepers 2 was more humorously corny than it was
frightening.
The majority of the movie takes place in a school bus full
of no-name actors and actresses as football jocks and team
cheerleaders. And for the full hour and forty three minutes
we sit there listening to their simple and predictable dialogue
(which the majority of is swearing) and watch them run from
one window to the next to see what vile things were occurring
outside. This movie attempts to use the method of scaring
us, using the overly used “unexpected attack of the
creeper” method, and how I have to give the writer
credit for trying, it just is too predictable and un creative
to make one’s hair stand on end.
At
one point we hear a radio broadcast discussing the discovery
of 300 bodies knit together in the basement of a church.
Hmm, does this have something to do with the dreaded “creeper”.
Obviously. The movie is jam-packed full of these little
supposed-to-send-chills-down-ones-spine-but-are-painfully-too-obivious-to-be-frightening
“plot enhancers”. (I use the word enhance very
generally…). By the climax you’ll most likely
be laughing rather than screaming.
Lastly, why the creeper is called a creeper when he flies
around and leaps in here, there and everywhere…I don’t
know. And even further, why Francis Ford Coppola directed
this movie, is an even bigger puzzle. Overall, if you want
a truly frightening movie, look elsewhere. BUT if your truly
looking for a clichéd movie filled with inexperienced
acting and a predictable plot…this movie would be
an excellent choice.
