Title: Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds
Actors/Director/Anything Worth Mentioning Right Away: It has Cockroach from The Cosby Show in it, alongside a bunch of actors and actresses I don’t really know. It retains the same writing and directing crew, and since the actors are just here to be eaten anyway it doesn’t really matter.
Introduction: This sequel also came from Netflix.
Location: This sequel is set throughout a small town, most notably on a roof toward the end.
Plot: Apparently, the monsters have moved to a neighboring town. The opening sequence is somewhat confusing, and then we get into the whole “16 hours earlier” scheme. We hear a little back story on some of the characters. The most noted is a sleazy used car salesman whose wife is cheating on him with the salesman of the month. All three of them are in this. Plus a gang of biker chicks that are tough as nails (and like to be naked). And also there is the bartender from the first one. Oh! And I forgot the best part: There are two luchadores in this movie as well! While the plot is fairly simple (and not too much unlike the first), it comes down to the base of all horror plots really—survive or be eaten. This group of humans who we are supposed to be cheering on to safety (Yeah, right) is atop the roof of a building that neighbors the local jail. They’re trying to get into said jail to use the telephone because, you know, that will make this all better. Eventually, everyone pretty much gets ripped to shreds, much to the viewers delight.
Acting: It’s not bad, per se, but no one is winning any awards here either.
Production: It looks like it could have been in theaters, though I’m pretty certain it went straight to DVD.
Sex/Nudity: In one of the final scenes, the group builds a catapult in hopes of launching the luchadores into the air and from one roof to the next. In order to do this, the biker chicks have to give up some of their clothing. So for the last twenty minutes or so of the movie, there are a few topless women (only two or three) If that somehow offends you or makes you not want to watch this movie, though, well, let’s just say that’s the thing you’ll probably be least offended by here.
Special Effects: They’re really good, actually. Two scenes stand out to me—as they probably do to anyone who has seen this. At one point, the salesman of the month tries to rescue a baby from a car. However, when the monsters are chasing him, and steadily gaining on him, he decides to toss the baby over his head as a sacrifice for the monsters to hopefully buy him some time. He dies later, due to a motorcycle malfunction, but you know, it was still a pretty lousy thing to do. Nonetheless, you see a baby ripped to shreds and eaten by these monsters, which is quite a sight. Also, for some reason, the same guy (He’s trouble, this one) decides for some reason that they should dissect one of the dead creatures. Don’t ask me why anyone lets him do this, but if you’re ever in this situation please kill said guy instead of letting him go through with it. This little science experiment basically leads to what I like to think of as Pukefest 2000. One girl sees something she doesn’t want to see and she vomits. Some of the bodily fluids of the creature gets on a girl and she vomits onto another girl. And of course the domino effect of vomiting ensues and we have probably more fake puke than I have ever seen in a movie before.
Overall Verdict: I’ve recently been wondering, as a filmmaker or what have you, how you go about making a sequel. The whole essence of it really intrigues me because you have to make something that is just as good if not better than the original. The thing is, if your movie is at, say, a C level to begin with, then no one probably wants to see your sequel. It won’t even be an option. However if your movie is closer to an A or B rating, then you have to somehow make something that is also A or B level once again. I think for the simple fact of trying to outdo yourself and people simply saying, “It’s okay, but not as good as the original” makes me never want to make a sequel unless it’s all planned out in advance and just broken up into parts. This movie, this sequel, however is one of those rare cases when I can honestly say that this movie was just as good- if not better- than the original. They both were slightly different in ways, which made them both good. I mean, it wasn’t a straight up “Let’s do the same thing again” movie no matter how much the plot may seem like it was. To even watch this as a standalone movie- without seeing the first- it still works, which I guess is the true sign of a great sequel.
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