Cruel Intentions 2 (2000)

Okay before I get any flack, yes, I hated Cruel Intentions 1, it was an insult to everything that the original story of Dangerous Liaisons stood for. So today I felt bored and wanted to watch a movie with the full knowledge I'd hate it, its sequel.Now I didn't like this film because it had good acting, great writing and an interesting story. No. In fact, all of these things are horrendous but that just adds on to the magnificent whirpool of idiocy that is Cruel Intentions 2. This is really one of those movies that is so bad that it actually is entertaining.The plot of this one is kind of a rehash of the first where Sebastian goes after a "virgin" and tries to seduce her but falls in love with her in the process while her sister Kathryn tries to make a freshman the class slut.I know what you are thinking, what about that plot could possibly be funny? Kathryn is played by Amy Adams who plays her part with an entirety of her trying to look and sound sinister. Yes, Amy Adams tries to be sinister. But it gets better, literally every minute this movie is on, it assaults you with something stupid that you just have to laugh at it. My absolute favourite scene is where Kathryn as the student body president has her own minions that hide in back rooms of the school looking at a slide show of all the new kids and how she will devise a scheme to get them to fit in to what they want down to the exact detail. Yes, in a high school, this movie wants you to believe that the popular kids spend their time looking at slide shows of unpopular kids and scheme plans to "destroy their reputation".Thats not enough? The first day in school a girl chokes on chewing gum after getting the hiccups. The headmaster's daughter saves her life and some random kid that you'll never see again picks her up and takes her out of the hall Knight in Shining armour style while Amy Adams gives them a death stare. I could go on and on with how many awkwardly funny moments there are in this movie because, as I said earlier, this movie assaults you with that amount of stupid.This is a short review because I literally have nothing else to say about it except that this may be my vote for the funniest movie ever made. I swear you will be tired of laughing at the end of this film. It was made as a pilot to a TV show aimed at teenagers (that was never picked up) but I think this was written for kinder-gardeners. If you want a laugh, go check this out. If you're a fan of the original and want to see a "worthy prequel", you're better off avoiding this film.

This was originally intended to be a new TV show. It's supposed to be a prequel to the 1999 movie when the brash Sebastian (Robin Dunne) first meets scheming Kathryn (Amy Adams). Sebastian's father newly marries the wealthy mother of Kathryn (Mimi Rogers).The production quality is much lower than the movie. It just doesn't measure up to the original. Not all of prequel story line up with the movie either. The great thing here is Amy Adams. She is delicious as the evil and snooty school girl. Sarah Thompson plays the goody headmaster's daughter. Keri Lynn Pratt does a funny bit of 'riding a horse'.

This film is about two step-siblings' manipulation towards each other and their peers at their school."Cruel Intentions 2" aims to replicate the sexual tension and psychological manipulation of the first "Cruel Intentions", but it is a long way short. "Cruel Intentions 2" has a rather unclear plot, it does not show why they have to manipulate each other. There is nothing to even suggest that the two step-siblings are attracted to each other. The manipulative moves are not as clever as the first one. Sexual tension is lacking, and basically the film does not have much suspense or thrill. "Cruel Intentions 2" is a disappointing prequel, it looks like a cheap rip off fans of the first "Cruel Intentions".

This review also contains a spoiler of the first movie -- so if you haven't seen either movie and want to but don't want the spoilers, please don't read this review!While this movie is supposed to be about Christian and Kathryn meeting for the first time, the movie is a poor copy of the first Cruel Intentions. The actors that they had portray Ryan Phillippe's Christian and Sarah Michelle Gellar's Kathryn are very poor substitutes indeed. Neither can pull off the smarmy, snooty rich-kid attitude that the original actors did. It's absolutely appalling that some of the dialog was verbatim -- not so much between Christian and Kathryn, but if you listen closely enough you'll recognize it. There are also inconsistencies in the plot - if this were truly the first meeting of Christian and Kathryn, then why is it that Christian fell in love with a girl at the end of the movie? He supposedly was supposed to be in love for the first time in the original movie (with Reese Witherspoon's character).Also, the tie-in with the photography/"You could be a model" comment at the end was totally lame and didn't add anything at all. Overall, this movie was a waste of time. I can't believe they made a Cruel Intentions 3.