Candyman 2 - Farewell to the Flesh
by Bill Condon
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Actor: Bill Nunn, Kelly Rowan, Matt Clark, Tony Todd, William O'LearyDirector: Bill Condon
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Candyman 2 - Farewell to the Flesh
Movie Review: I sensed some anger management issues here
Summary: 1 Stars
By now you pretty much know what this film is about. The heroine is pretty bland and screams, a lot.She teaches art to poor black kids, this tells us she is a Good Person, she has a shouty brother. The Candyman wants her (and presumably the audience)to feel sorry for him, he does this by jamming a hook through the guts of nice white people. So good luck if you thought this film would win an award for promoting racial harmony.
The film is set in New Orleans so naturally all the cliches are thrown up: rotting ante bellum mansions, mardi gras etc. The police investigating these killings have a quaint eccentricity to their investigating procedure, they do this by ignoring even the most obvious physical evidence.
If you have a fear of being attacked by a black man this film is probably not for you, if you have a fear of bad films this is definitely not for you.
Candyman, candyman,candyman, candyman, candyman...what...aarrrgghhh
Summary of Candyman 2 - Farewell to the Flesh
His myth has endured for generations. His legacy is eternal rage. And now he's back...with a vengeance! Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh continues the tale of the phantom-like figure who wreaksa terrible fate upon those who chant his name five times while looking into a mirrorand come face-to-face with grisly death. A victim of unspeakable evil while he lived, the "Candyman" (Tony Todd, The Crow) has become evil incarnate in his afterlife. This time, he haunts the city of New Orleans, where a young schoolteacher named Annie Tarrant (Kelly Rowan, 187) is struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father. The locals insist that he was slain by the Candyman,but Annie is not convinced...until she unwittingly summons him forth, learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects her to him. But can she stop him before he kills again?A stylish though inferior sequel to its classic predecessor, Bill Condon's Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh deepens our knowledge of what made the murdered Daniel Robitaille turn into the monster that haunts dreams and mirrors. But some of it is still pretty routine: schoolteacher Annie takes a long time to connect her family's plantation-owning past and her own artistic talent with the legend, and is far too ready to say the Candyman's name five times in a mirror to debunk her pupils' fears.
The setting: New Orleans at Carnival time with a disc jockey whimsically reminding us that Carnival is the last farewell to pleasure before the rigors of Lent. Tony Todd, who returns as the Candyman, gives a quiet dignity and sadness to the monstrous specter with a hook for a hand. His life was torn from him and he is mad for vengeance, yet he has an artistic temperament and loved Annie's kinswoman Caroline. Condon captures an attractive elegiac tone in much of this, as well as moments of brutal horror. --Roz Kaveney
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