Smile 2

“Tween horror. Perfect to have on in the background whilst making tiktoks or like somthing I dunno lol. I get the feeling the script for this was written in text speak and emojis. I'm not sure if this is Blumhouse, I couldn't summon enough interest to bother finding out. If you've seen the first flick (not movie and certainly not film), you know what this is about, cheese "jump scares" that solely rely on the sound being loud and some tween-palette friendly "gore" - a bi...”

“**_A winsome pop diva is plagued by something… sinister_** This is superior to the first movie for two reasons: (1) Writer/director Parker Finn had $11 million more to work with after the box office success of his 2022 film and (2) Naomi Scott is all-around superior to Sosie Bacon as the protagonist, Skye Riley. As to comparisons beyond the original film, it combines the Japanese anime “Perfect Blue” (1997) with the increasing sense of psychological horror of “Rosemary’...”

“An improvement on the (good) original. Naomi Scott's performance is outstanding, she is so convincing and fully committed to the role all the way through - to the point that she elevates the film as a whole up a notch. The rest of the cast are good, e.g. Rosemarie DeWitt, but <em>'Smile 2'</em> is very much Scott's movie. The run time is perhaps a little longer than it needs to be, though to be honest that is only a minor criticism in the grand scheme of things. Much of...”