Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)







          The Creeper is back but this time it won’t be Darry and Trish he will be up against...he’s found a whole new set of victims for his dinner plate. It is the 23rd day and he better hurry up and grab his food before his food gets him. A basketball team fresh off of winning the state championship is traveling back along the same types of roads as part 1 and the Creeper is stalking this team. Winner take all.

          Overall: Well I think I have a lot more respect for part one after watching part 2. We still get very little about the creeper’s bio - basically everything we got from the old lady in part one, now rehashed. However we have the entire film surrounding the basketball team stuck in the bus. No known idea why the bus is targeted other than everything seems to be a target right now, which was not the case in part 1 - part 1 the victims were selective, now it seems the most vulnerable die first, then everyone else is tasty enough. The film really wanted to have a plot but then never followed up with anything:


          The most annoying basketball player feels his time is cut due to his coach preferring black players (never truly followed up on or elaborated other than to bring racism into the plot where it never should have been in the first place).

          The basketball players aren’t very tall and there is no actual basketball (even practice ones in the bus nor even jerseys) so no true clue as to what sports these players play in. However there are javelins!

          That the school’s sports news reporter is gay and likes a black player - but with so many characters you will forget who is supposed to be gay, who is the love interest, or why the scar has anything to do with anything.

          That Minxie has visions about Darry & Trish (but never why, or how or if anything she did ever actually helped do anything but give them depression over their fates).

          Still no real idea who The Creeper is, why he is feeding and what he really wants, and why in part 1 he was selective as to the victims and body parts and now he’s eating everyone. Hell, how come he can’t even die? At least explain it...

          We have a very nice ending (that doesn’t even look any different than the prior parts of the movie). But we are missing the word on Trish’s fate or why she hasn’t kept up the search for her brother.


          Well enough about the holes large enough to drive a truck through with a license plate that reads “Beating U.” What made the first film so much better was the car scene at the beginning, the focus on actual characters and character development (Darry, Trish and the old lady), and the fact that the Creeper wasn’t always flying around. It was suspenseful and he seemed to go after lots of people in lots of locales. Looks like Salva only had enough $$ to purchase time on a lonely road since the entire film is shot in one place. And with an entire basketball team and all the extras to go along with it, there are so many characters they all seem to be the same by the end, except for Minxie - you never really seem to care about any of them because they never last for more than a few seconds.

          Finally, although I didn’t address this in part 1, but I will now. Salva is a convicted child molester - convicted of sexual relations with a 12 year-old boy and videotaping such. This film has tons of shots of young boys (characters supposed to be under age of 18 at least) with no shirts, boys "taking leaks" in the fields, a young boy being forcibly abducted by an adult male, and it features a gay boy who lusts after the other boys. In part 1, I didn’t find any connections/hints between Salva's misdeeds and the plot, but this film is Salva either trying to get repentance for his misdeeds or further exposing his own needs for more.

          Comparison: Teen Wolf meets Tremors 3



          P.S. This was ranked as Roger Ebert's 6th worst film of 2003.









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