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.
DMG
I loved the first hatchet movie and as you can see from my rating, i love this one even more. And yes, i know many people think that this is the worst one of the series, i think it's actually the best one. They went from "pretty over the top but still quite realistic kills" to "extemely over the top and unrealistic kills". And that's what many people hate. I love the kills in this movie. And the effects, again, are great. I actually think that Victor Crowley looks better in this film. He doesn't look much different, but a little different. The main character in the second one is not being played by Tamara Feldman anymore, but by fan favorite Danielle Harris. I love her as Marybeth. I think she's awesome in this movie and i think she's an awesome actress in general. One of my biggest complains about the first movie was that some of the jokes were not funny. I have to say, i think every joke in this movie is at least a little funny. I pretty much like all of the characters. I think they're all really fun. And the acting in general is actually decent. My biggest complain about the second is again the pacing. I already mentioned that in my Hatched 1 review. I think this movie really is too slow. It takes too long for the action to get started. And my second biggest complain would be that the story is actually not very good. I don't hate the story, but i think it could have been better. Marybeth just decides to go there again, although she knows that everyone who's coming with her is probably going to die. I feel like it would've been better if she was somehow forced to go there. And i have to say, i think this movie has some of the best kills in the entire franchise and i overall love this movie. I think this definitely is one the best modern slashers. And the fight at the end between Tony Todd (who played Candyman) and Kane Hodder (who plays Victor Crowley in this movie and who also played Jason Voorhees in some of the Friday The 13th movies) is awesome. I'm just going to rate it now. 9 out of 10. absolutely love this movie.
Jambojohnnyboy
This review is fairly straight forward, have you seen Hatchet? Well this is more of the same, it extends the story, it takes similar story lines from other movies and fits it in to the story arc it is creating.The big difference with this is that it is highly amusing, unlike for example 'Evil Dead'.You could run a book with friends guessing who is going to get bumped off next. There is one spectacular dispatch, which I didn't expect but was a homage to another horror series. I enjoyed this and look forward to part 3.
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.
AD
