ridiculous rating

Just perfect...

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Imo the first hatchet was terrible, relied too heavily on kills, bad characters apart from reverend zombie, marcus and that asian tour guide dude ( can't remember his name, sorry ). But this movie proved me wrong, it had a better story, better acting, a better direction, and better characters. My one major problem with this movie is victors design, he looks kind of stupid ( not that the first was any better ). Vernon, you will be missed

Many a sequel have come and gone with films and this one is no different. Picking up with similar cast members (Tony Todd) (Kane Hodder) but changing the lead from the first film as Mary Beth is Danielle Harris (Halloween II, Halloween 4 and 5). The film resumes right where the last one left off with Mary Beth being the only survivor. She makes it back to town and tells her story to Reverend Zombie (Todd) and together they grab a bunch of hunters to go and get the remains of Crowleys victims and her family. More of the same plot, dry but constant, dreadful acting and the editing was just horrid. The violence and gore factor was raised some in this one, from severed heads, split faces, ripped out spines it has it's squeamish factor. GAIN I HAVE TO RATE THIS A MODEST 5/10

I'd say the first half of Hatchet 2 is a bit sillier and even campier than the first, but the films last half-hour really makes up for it.THis is one seriously gory flick. It's gorier than the original, and funnier than the original. It might actually be better than the original, but it's an awfully tight race.Adam Green still has me on the edge of my seat waiting for his next horror project. Guess I'll have to wait for the DVD release of Hatchet 3 next month - even though he didn't direct.Hatchet 2 is a little better than the original on the acting/cast front as well. In the original we see a bunch of undeveloped boobs getting knocked-off left and right. Here, there's a little more substance to who's getting their heads ripped off.This thing gets pretty intense down the stretch. Thumbs up.

As a life-long Jason Voorhees fan, I'm sad to say, his all-but Twin N the Swamps, Victor Crowley would win any battle between the two. Though, it may take an extra couple of million in the budget as Kane Hodder plays both of them.Poor Adam Green. Why aren't people seeing his vision? Frozen thawed before it was barely seen and that was pretty good. The original Hatchet was a great homage to the Friday the 13th series (amongst others.) And now Hatchet II was booted out of theatres as fast as the Garbage Pail Kids were.They say it's because the movie was too gross. Granted, some scenes were just over the top, and I think that's just part of the continued homage. I've seen worse, by the way. Saw III and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, for two examples, were far worse. Hell, aside from one scene in the beginning, basically NOTHING happens, in regards to gore, for another 49 or so minutes. The movie's only 89 minutes long!To add: despite the lack of action/gore/horror in the first two acts, director (also writer) Green kept things interesting enough to push forward, thanks to horror veteran Tony Todd, who always gives a scene-stealing performance. Not to mention the comedy during the time, such as the reference of Jason Voorhees (and LESLIE VERNON – do your homework on that one for those unfamiliar) to Victor Crowley.Unfortunately, it also contains one of the WORST reasons for the heroine to go back into harm's way – usually the woods, in this case, the swamp with the most ruthless killer still on the loose. SPOILER! – Marybeth (originally played by Tamara Feldman, now by, I'm guessing wannabe scream-queen, Halloween veteran Danielle Harris) completely survived the attacks to near death more than a few times and lived to run to nearby New Orleans and tell about it.Her first objective? Oh, to go back into the unstoppable/unkillable monster's domain and reclaim her brother and father's corpses in order to bury them. Seriously? Really? Granted, she'd love to extract revenge, but I would put my Vegas odds on the person/creature 4x her body weight. It's just as well; Harris aided in killing another franchise with yet another part two even with the same roman numerals in Rob Zombie's Halloween II.OK, getting past that, we enter the realm of hillbilly revenge where the Reverend Zombie (Tony Todd, and yeah, I like that, Adam) rounds up bearded men (and the obvious blonde chick) with rounds of their own to head into the swamp with Lil Miss Marybeth to get Zombie's boat (lost in part one.) Does Zombie have ulterior motives? Obviously, but that's really not the point of the movie, is it?And full circle: the main problem with the film is the enormous amount of set-up to get to the slaughter we're all expecting (and the reason theatres banned this.) If you're into that sort of thing, once the hillbillies hit the fan, you probably won't be disappointed. And it's severely over the top – including some, what, 6 foot chainsaw?At least the pay off at the end was worth it, not to mention the whole experience is under an hour and a half. It's harmless – but, again, only if you're into the gore and splattered blood genre.