Its definitely not as creepy (although it does have its spooky moments) and since we now know a fair bit about the Creeper, the mystery element is gone.This story takes place on the last day of the Creepers feeding cycle, a few days after the events of the first film.
A basketball team is returning from a championship game, and the Creeper, after snatching a kid away from his farmer father, tails the teams bus, crippling it by ruining the tires with something akin to a ninjas throwing stars. It proceeds to decimate the coaching staff the bus driver, and then terrorize the teens, making sure they cant escape. Its true enough that there are many points in the script with which a viewer can take issue - even yours truly had a hard time buying some of them, and hes a pretty forgiving person. Things tend to get particularly muddled when it comes to the big climax as the teens finally leave the bus, and we wonder where they all get to from scene to scene. It does take a lot of suspension of disbelief to enjoy this movie, but if one can accomplish this, Jeepers Creepers II does reward us with some exciting moments and some extremely amusing money shots. ![]() It gets a LOT more damage done to it this time around; its good to see various assorted characters be able to fight back. Particularly interesting is the vengeance-obsessed farmer Jack Taggart (veteran character actor Ray Wise (RoboCop, Twin Peaks) getting a rare case of top billing), who fashions some killing implements using his post puncher. Naturally, due to there being a greater number of characters this time around, they dont get fleshed out too much, although writer director Victor Salva tries to give the material some meat by introducing an element of racism. Overall, this suffers the same fate as many sequels, lacking the originals freshness and in truth it doesnt give the viewer too many people for whom they can really root. At least it allows Justin Long to reprise his Darry character from the first film, appearing in ghostly form to offer warnings and information to one of the characters here. ![]() Victor Salva wanted to honor Franz Kafka and his novel The Metamorphosis including the giant cockroach on top of the exterminators van that Izzy, Rhonda and Doble D used to escape the creeper. It is known that in the first movie The Creeper takes Darrys eyes and The Creeper at the end of movie 1 shows him now possessing Darrys brown eyes. In Jeepers Creepers 2 The Creepers eyes are blue and not brown like they should be. There are no opening credits whatsoever, save for United Artists, American Zoetrope Myriad Pictures; the title of the film does not appear until the ending credits. The film originally opened with the teams basketball game in its final moments. On the DVD special features, the Gymnasium set can be seen in the background on the feature entitled A Day In Hell. The Bannon County Fight Song Words and Music by Victor Salva.
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