Year:
1998
Studio:
Columbia Pictures/Mandalay Entertainment
Movie:
3/5
DVD:
2/5
Teaser
Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is back, but so is Benjamin Willis
(Muse Watson), the old fisherman that should have died in the last
movie. Julie now attends a different college and is afraid of going
back home. She's not coping too well here either, especially with the
one-year anniversary coming up. Boyfriend Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze
Jr) is trying to be there for her but it's a pain since he still lives
in the hometown and the commute is killing him.
But here's something to cheer Julie up. Her best friend Karla Wilson
(Brandy) wins a radio contest with the grand prize a trip to some
Caribbean island I forget, needless to say it's a small island with
only a handful of people (because it's the start of the off season).
Going with Karla and Julie are Karla's boyfriend Tyrell (Mekhi Phifer)
and Will Benson (Matthew Settle), who has designs on Julie. Too bad
that it's all a trap and people will soon start dying left and right.
Movie
"I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" is both a long movie name and a
sequel to the almost-as-long named "I Know What You Did Last Summer".
Old man Ben is back to wreck vengeance on Julie and her friends
(strangely, he has no special plans for Ray, good thing Ray decides to
rush to Julie's aid to save the day). The deaths aren't quite as varied
as in the last movie -- I think the fisherman's hook kills most of the
people.
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But it's still
an entertaining movie. Disappointingly, Freddie Prinze
Jr doesn't have much of a role. Ray spends most of the movie (as we see
in snippets) trying to get from the home town to the Caribbean island
where Julie and company are. I'm not too sure what the after-end of the
movie was about. It either sets up a sequel or its just a long dream
sequence. Other than that though I liked the movie.
Actors
Jeffrey Combs (from ST:DS9 where he played the main bad guy Vorta),
Jennifer Esposito (from Spin City) and Jack Black all have minor yet
distinctive roles in the movie. Jennifer Love Hewitt looks better than
I remember her being. Freddie Prinze Jr is still as dreamy as ever :-)
Brandy, Mekhi Phifer, and Matthew Settle did ok jobs.
DVD
Both wide-screen and television screen versions of the movie are
included. Special features include a short "Making of" featurette,
theatrical trailers for this movie as well as its predecessor, and the
Jennifer Love Hewitt music video "How Do I Deal". What's included is
interesting, there's just not much of it.
Recommendations
If you liked the first movie then you should like this one. If you like
Freddie Prinze Jr there are better movies out there. If you like the
Scream genre thriller movies this one is an ok version of it. For the
most part I'd say see it once.
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