Cruel Intentions 2
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Movie Reviews of Cruel Intentions 2
Movie Review: Just horrible
Summary: 3 Stars
I've seen the first Cruel Intentions, which I didn't like very much. Compared to this movie, the original looks like Casablanca. I watched this one on DVD. You can see why it's direct to video. i understand the characters are the same because it is a prequel. But the dialog and plot were virtually the same. What do you get with this one: cheap exploitation, racial sterotypes, and a ridiculous, unfathomable ending which is cut off all too soon.Movie Review: Not bad...but very cheap
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is an alright prequel to the first movie; however, the pictures and designs are amateurish.
The storyline is alright that leads right into the first movie.
If you want to find out the backstory...then this should be a treat for you.
Movie Review: up, down, back and forward, faster, faster
Summary: 3 Stars
3 stars for the scene with Kery Lynn Pratt and the horse. Also
Amy Adams is to die for
Movie Review: Now I know why girls like horses! Amy Adams's first starring role!
Summary: 2 Stars
Well, the only reason to watch this rather lackluster rmovie is that this was Amy Adams's first movie as the female lead, and she plays such a totally different character from almost all her other movie roles. Adams is a star on the rise and has specialized in characters exuding genuine sweetness, charm, and earnestness with roles like Giselle in "Enchanted", Susan in "Talledega Nights", Ashley in "Junebug" (for which she got an Oscar nomination), and the flamboozled Brenda Strong in "Catch Me If You Can".
Amy Adams does not particularly shine in this supposed prequel role here as Kathryn Merteuil, the same character played by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the original "Cruel Intentions". Adams has these big, round, intensely blue eyes, a huge smile that breaks out easily, and such a soft, sweet voice that no matter how hard she tries, she just can't come across as being a dark and evil character. Cold, snippy, stuck up, and in the midst of a menstrual cramp is about all that comes through here in this movie.
Sarah Michelle Gellar in the first Cruel Intentions did have this dark quality about her with the hint of pure evil that made her version of the character so much richer.
Robin Dunne, as the prequel Sebastian Valmont, also is much softer and nicer than Ryan Phillipe's version.
There isn't much to this movie, and the problem is the script, which doesn't know where to go with the characters. Being a prequel, Kathryn and Sebastian presumably would be more innocent than later on. And their parents would be in the picture also. And that pretty much limits the plot of the movie.
There is the one obligatory gratuitous nude shower scene. And the funniest part of the movie is the line about girls and horses. That's about it.
Movie Review: not very good at all
Summary: 2 Stars
Cruel Intentions 2 feels like it's trying to be a comedy, but never really hits the nail on the head when it pertains to actually making me laugh.
It's about these rich and spoiled attractive teenage girls that get their kicks playing mind games with a certain boy.
It might sound appealing reading the description, but the underwhelming delivery of the storytelling and the overall nonexistent interest factor makes any potential the movie had lose momentum *very* quickly.
Sometimes an extremely funny joke will come out of nowhere, but this only seems to happen as a way to make sure you're not drifting to sleep by the boring storyline.
This film is definitely one of many that totally breathes the time period of 10 years ago when storylines involving teens seemed to focus on undeveloped character development, along with the laughs and the storytelling not quite worthy enough to make a movie out of it. This happened *so* many times back in the late 90's/early 00's it's not even funny.
It's probably the extreme unbelievability of all the characters involved that makes Cruel Intentions 2 feel like a big fake waste of your precious time. That's my impression of it at least. No no, it's the terrible writing. It's BAD, trust me.
A few laughs aside, I can't recommend such a dreadfully boring movie to anybody.