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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 93725
Released: February 6, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: UMD for PSP |
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Editorial Review:
Acclaimed producers Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Taka Ichise have re-teamed with director Takashi Shimizu and screenwriter Stephen Susco to present this heart-stopping sequel to the smash-hit thriller, The Grudge. When Aubrey Davis (Amber Tamblyn, TV's "Joan of Arcadia") learns her sister Karen (Sarah Michelle Geller) has been hospitalized, she immediately flies to Tokyo. Once there, she learns her sister's horrifying story and discovers that the fatal supernatural curse has been unleashed. Now, as the grudge spreads across the world, a new host of unsuspecting victims are about to become infected by the force that can't be stopped -- and won't be killed.
Description of The Grudge 2 (UMD Mini For PSP):
The Grudge 2 is a spooky installment in Takashi Shimizu's hardworking Ju-on/Grudge series of horror pictures. It doesn't carry the disorienting thrill of the very first Japanese Ju-on features, but it's a lot creepier than anybody could have expected. The story picks up from the end of the first Hollywood version of The Grudge, and has nothing to do with Ju-on 2, Shimizu's Japanese sequel. Sarah Michelle Gellar returns (a distinctly supporting role) as an American woman traumatized by her experiences with a haunted house in Tokyo; younger sister Amber Tamblyn flies over to help out. This particular storyline doesn't have much meat on it; the murder house is still there, and people who go inside have a disconcerting habit of dropping dead. Fortunately, two other plots thread into the basic one: a group of American schoolgirls in Tokyo become intrigued by the legend of the house, and some Chicago apartment dwellers are unsettled by domestic anxiety and the weird sounds coming from next door. (This storyline, featuring Jennifer Beals, gives the film its extremely satisfying opening sequence.) As usual with these movies, sequences come to us in non-chronological order, and it's up to us to piece it together. You can guess where the film is going, but the slow trajectory toward its final sequences is surprisingly involving. The movie was widely panned upon its release, which says more about the presumption of the law of diminishing sequel returns than the film itself--it's a decent little horror flick. --Robert Horton
The Grudge 2 (UMD Mini For PSP) Reviews:
good movie 
2009-12-15 - it is a good movie. i watched it a couple of times. it is about as good as the first movie.
I have rarely laughed so much during a film 
2009-10-19 - The problem is, this was supposed to be a horror flick. Ju-On is a remarkable and truly scary movie. The Grudge is a dumbed-down American cash in. Ju-On 2 was pretty good. The Grudge 2 is just awful. It is seriously a tragically funny movie. See if you don't laugh when a room full of people turn into blue ghost killer thingies or when a girl thinks she is safe only to be abducted by the ghost in her hoodie which she is wearing at the time. I am not making this up. Watch it for a laugh. One star.
Great, grossly underappreciated film
2009-07-29 - I am going to keep this review short and to the point. People who say how bad this film is are either too stupid to understand a movie whose timeline is not presented to them in simple 'point a to point b' format, or they simply cannot appreciate fine, emotionally nuanced performances, or perhaps they are not really into J-horror (as the genre is called) films. There, I said it. Deal with it.
The film is a showcase for two fine performances:
Amber Tamblyn as Aubrey and Arielle Kebbel as Allison both deliver top-notch, A-list performances as girls forced into a situation in which they have no understanding of either what is going on or how to get themselves out (relatively) intact. The talent they apply in crafting these characters really lets the viewer feel their desperation and terror. It is impossible not to feel so sorry for what is happening to them.
Frankly, Arielle Kebbel steals the show from her more well-known compatriots in this movie. She brings her A-game in this performance. Without giving too much away, there is one scene in particular where one can really feel her horror on a truly visceral level. Her eyes perfectly convey what she is feeling, and her scream is truly classic horror film quality. As I stated before, I felt so terribly sorry for her character because she is, from all we are shown, a good person who in no way deserves the torment she receives, and it seems as though she gets an extra big helping of it indeed.
If you like fine performances and 'films' more than just 'movies', then you should really enjoy this one. In fairness, it may take more than one viewing to fully appreciate. I didn't truly appreciate it until the second time.
Awful
2009-04-06 - I'm a big SMG fan and so I watched this. Too bad I didn't read some of the reviews first. This was a big stinking waste of 2 hours of my life. It was the most disjointed movie I've ever seen; we leap from one silly, nonsensical part to the next and it is as disjointed as the goofy ghost-girl that pops up to drag people off to whatever lays beyond the mirror.
Maybe if I'd watched them in order this would have made sense, but now I'm not even going to give the first one a chance because this one was so terrible.
Poor Imitation
2009-01-16 - A sub par imitation of the first one and in some places, "The Ring." Note to the director: Neither eeriness nor creepiness can replace an actual storyline.
