ENTERTAINMENT

JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 (MGM/UA) Genre: Horror Released: August 29, 2003 Director: Victor Salva Starring: ...The Creeper Official Website MGM/UA

Every 23rd spring for 23 days it gets to eat!...the opening title of Jeepers Creepers 2. Next scene ...subtitle: Day 22.... cut to a little boy fixing three scarecrows (in what I presumed was his family’s farm)...predictably, he notices that the third scarecrow does not look right. The young boy approaches the scarecrow and…the movie has officially begun. I’ll have to give director Victor Salva credit for trying to supply us with shivers, but unfortunately Jeepers Creepers 2 was more humorously corny than it was frightening.

The majority of the movie takes place in a school bus full of no-name actors and actresses as football jocks and team cheerleaders. And for the full hour and forty three minutes we sit there listening to their simple and predictable dialogue (which the majority of is swearing) and watch them run from one window to the next to see what vile things were occurring outside. This movie attempts to use the method of scaring us, using the overly used “unexpected attack of the creeper” method, and how I have to give the writer credit for trying, it just is too predictable and un creative to make one’s hair stand on end.

At one point we hear a radio broadcast discussing the discovery of 300 bodies knit together in the basement of a church. Hmm, does this have something to do with the dreaded “creeper”. Obviously. The movie is jam-packed full of these little supposed-to-send-chills-down-ones-spine-but-are-painfully-too-obivious-to-be-frightening “plot enhancers”. (I use the word enhance very generally…). By the climax you’ll most likely be laughing rather than screaming.

Lastly, why the creeper is called a creeper when he flies around and leaps in here, there and everywhere…I don’t know. And even further, why Francis Ford Coppola directed this movie, is an even bigger puzzle. Overall, if you want a truly frightening movie, look elsewhere. BUT if your truly looking for a clichéd movie filled with inexperienced acting and a predictable plot…this movie would be an excellent choice.