People are voting emotionally.

Let's be realistic.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

A sequel or so called continuation of the original film that should have not been made. Even few of the people that played a part in making this movie was like "why does there need to be a sequel?" and yet they went ahead and made this cheap crappy movie. I just wanted to forget this movie as soon as I finished watching it. This movie is simply unnecessary and doesn't add anything to the "Donnie Darko" film but subtracts it. This one is all over the place but just doesn't seem consistent. It's like the writers wrote down a bunch of scenarios and just decided to mash them all together in a incoherent and in a manner that is not very clever. I think they first tried to get Maggie Gyllenhaal who played Elizabeth Darko to play a part in this movie. But I guess she smartly declined. And now this revolves around Samantha Darko who is Donnie's youngest sister and it takes 7yrs after what happened in the first "Donnie Darko" film. It started out like it might be a watchable flick but as the movie started to progress it got worse and worse. And my gosh the special effects are just freaking awful, even for a straight to DVD movie. Movies like this goes to show that if you don't have a creative or good idea for a sequel, don't go for it! I am just going to forget that this movie ever happened.3/10

As most of the other reviews mention, this really is not a spot-on sequel to Donnie Darko. This movie raises far more questions than it answers, and while that's fine, it also leaves so many issues open that you start to wonder if there was even a point at all. Let me go over a few of the points in this movie that genuinely bothered me;~The Second Tangent Universe; In this movie, there are actually 2 Tangent Universes; the main one, and about half way through, another one is thrown in. There was NO point to this whatsoever, and it didn't contribute anything to the story. If anything, it ruined the philosophy that Donnie Darko-style Time Travel is about; Tangent Universes are supposed to be extraordinarily rare. For 2 to happen at the same time is beyond any odds I'd ever believe. Not to mention that the second universe really didn't add anything; it killed off one of the two girls and resolved nothing.~The meteorite; Yeah, that's right. Meteorite. One happens to be the Artifact in the Primary Tangent Universe, and some kid gets his hands on it. He develops rashes, starts acting weird, and at the end apparently just goes insane. And my only real complaint; what in the absolute f***, does this have to do with anything? ~The tesseracts; Now, from what I understand, a tesseract is a fourth- dimensional hypercube, basically a 4D cube. And the fourth dimension, from what I understand, is time. So a bunch of cubes that exist within the fourth dimension showing up in a movie mostly about time travel, not unlikely, but still, nothing about them is ever truly explained. ~Resolution; There is none. At the end, the kid is still locked up, nobody knows where he is (Sam should know if she remembered anything about her time in the Tangent Universe), the people hiding the kid are still living happy ordinary f***ed up lives, and nothing is resolved for anybody, not even in the Tangent Universe. Nothing positive happens at really any point in this movie. And finally, ~Death for the Living Receiver(s); The Living Receiver does not have to die for the Tangent Universe to be closed. There is nowhere that says one has to at all. So I don't get why that bit of information seems left out. Nobody HAS to die at all. But both Living Receivers, knowing full well what's coming ahead, decide to die. No. The job is done the second the Tangent Universe is resolved. Death adds nothing to it.It seems this movie was made without really understanding the original movie. It seems like somebody watched it once, liked it, worked about half of it out for himself, and decided there had to be a sequel, since everything else was getting one. Its only redeeming quality was the fact that the same actress who initially played Sam Darko reprises her role in this one. I would recommend against seeing this one if you were a fan of Donnie Darko.

Let me start by saying, this film is the sequel to the brilliant Donnie Darko but don't make that reason force you to watch this. My advice is to avoid it at all costs.The film tries to be its predecessor but over complicates it, eradicates all sense of emotion and drama and casts actors who just cannot act. So basically the exact opposite to Donnie Darko. Sure that was complicated but the end sewed most things up and also it leaves so much lose that you want to watch it again and again with intrigue. This film however I barely made it through one full viewing. It is seriously bad.Right, it is about Donnie's sister, Samantha (Chase). She is in the first film but is eleven years old. Now she is eighteen and run away from home as her family has dismantled after her brother's death. As her and her mate Corey (Evigan) drive across country their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a desolate town with weird town's folk. In this town lives a homeless Desert Ops veteran who has been having visions of Samantha telling him the world is going to end. When he sees her he tells her this and she begins to think about what this means. Next thing you know Samantha is killed but her mate is given the chance to go back in time and alter it so that she survives the car accident. I'm going to stop there for a second as this was a huge problem in the film. Her friend goes back into time but instead of preventing the car accident, she saves her friend and remains in the car that crashes. If she knows the outcome why doesn't she get out the car or even tell the car to go the other way. To me this was one of many major plot holes.Continuing on, Samantha is now alive and her mate dead but she isn't given the opportunity to save her friends life. We then interweave all the crazy sub-plots that involve a pointless town rebel, who has a brother who went missing along with another child, the town geek falling for Samantha and doing all he can to get with her and a man attempting to sell Christianity to her as well as having a strange relationship with one of the lost boys mother. What the hell! Donnie Darko had sub plots but they all related to the main plot. These ones just don't, and if they do the film could have done without them. Samantha then finds the missing boys although now dead, gets the veteran arrested and then has a date with the geek who seems to turn into an alien during a meteor storm. Then she rewinds to the beginning and decides to go home before this happens again. What a crock of pony. This tries to outdo the original and it really, really, epically fails. It is so bad.Nothing in this film makes any sense. Throughout I was puzzled as to what the hell was going on and at times I was even bored. All the characters are stereotypical and clichéd. They turn up at a desolate town and we have a geek, intact with glasses and high pants, the typical rebel, with sports car and beer and a weird religious nut. We also get a cameo from Elizabeth Berkley from Saved By The Bell, and her role is just pointless.Seriously never, ever, ever consider watching this film. The brilliance of the first one could be tarnished because of this dire sequel. We even get a reimagining of the bunny from the original and in this film it has no place, they have just brought it back to tie something in with the first. The director of the first reiterates that he had nothing to do with this film and has stated he wouldn't work with any of the actors who starred in this. If you haven't seen the first, watch it, you'll be intrigued, but don't bother with this. There is a very good reason it was released straight to DVD.

All the recognizable bits are there... the reverse time-lapse, the god-botherer, the giant bunny rabbit, the mangled voice, the (supposed) tear-jerker song toward the end, liquid future-paths... but here I don't see any semblance of a decent story. You get the sense these elements were handpicked because they're expected from a Darko movie, rather than being used to add to or create the story in a meaningful way.Wouldn't have been surprised to see a dialogue about smurfs or something similar (there may have been but I stopped taking complete notice a little way in). After all we did get treated to the cringe-worthy "Why are you looking at me funny?" - "Why do you look funny?", an obvious nod.I get the sense it could better seen more than once (did have the cynicism turned on) but it will be a while before I give it that chance. Bunny-droppings.