Too much of everything

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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

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.

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.

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.