There was so much story left to tell after I Know What You Did Last Summer that the filmmakers brought back all the beloved, surviving characters from the first film for this sequel. Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr), Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt), and Julie's white tank top (Jennifer Love Hewitt's white tank top) return to once again face a hook-wielding maniac. Not satisfied merely to repeat a theme, director Danny Cannon and screenwriter Trey Callaway add variation by introducing Karla (Brandy) as Julie's best friend in the whole wide world. Karla and Julie have won a summer... trip to the Bahamas with their current infatuations but find that they've arrived at the start of the storm season and that at their hotel "Do Not Disturb" signs should flip to say "R.I.P." One can only hope to hang just such a sign on this repetitive, tedious franchise, especially since this version is less scary than the price of beer in those little hotel room refrigerators. Definite contender for Gratuitous T&A Shot of the Year (it's of Hewitt and that's not meant as a recommendation). --Keith Simanton [show more]
90's horror goes tropical in this fast paced, albeit chronologically confused, sequel to teen slasher 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'. Jennifer Love Hewitt returns as Julie James; traumatized survivor of the hook wielding fisherman's first reign of terror. Now trying to move on with her life, she's hoaxed into winning a holiday for four to the Bahamas; it's a clever little ruse which sees JLH incorrectly answer a radio phone in competition: "Rio de Janeiro is the capital of Brazil!", exclaims our hapless heroine. And off she goes, straight into a deadly trap set by the Mac wearing bogeyman from part one.
JLH is a good sport and plays along with the premise quite well, even doing all the stupid things the cine-literate movie brats of 'Scream' warned their peers about. Freddie Prinze Jr. makes an appearance about half an hour in as the cast run, hide, jump and prowl around the remote island resort. Its' by-the-numbers horror for the most part, as characters are picked off in order of their poster billing whilst director Danny Cannon leaves no cliché unused, in a breathless dash to the 90 minute mark.
Better than you may remember: 'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer' is an enjoyable, if entirely predictable, sequel which never outstays its welcome and delivers the goods more often than not.
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Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewiit) is still understandably upset over the brutal slayings of her friends last summer. She is also wracked with guilt over her role in the death of a fisherman, and her academic studies and personal life are suffering. When her best friend Karla Wilson (Brandy) wins a luxury holiday for four in the Bahamas, Julie thinks she can finally put the events of the last year behind her - but fate has other plans in store, as chaos and horror follow the teens across the paradise island.
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