Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds

All I have to say is, wow, what a huge disappointment this turned out to be. The first film was great, it had comedy, action, cool characters, nice practical creature FX and loads of gore. This movie, however, is just one big mess. It's almost as if the writers and director just straight-up ran out of ideas and just pitted these characters in random situations to fill up the running time.

So the story continues immediately after the first. Diane Goldner returns, as we're revealed that the "Harley Mom" from the first flick was her twin sister. Dubbed "Biker Queen" she and the rest of her gang of female bikers head to the nearest town, where she's looking to get some sort of vengeance out of the death of her sis. Unbeknownst to them, the town is also under siege by these creatures. "Honey Pie" also returns in this film. Many may remember her taking off in the big truck, leaving everyone behind in the bar.

The "Bartender" is the last familiar lead character to return. He somehow survived the events that unfolded in the previous movie's climax and is riding along-side the bikers. This feature also introduces some new characters that we're supposed to care about -- a couple annoying car salesmen, a couple dwarf wrestlers, and some crazy religious chick. None of which are the least bit as interesting as the ones shown in its predecessor. All these new characters and even the returning ones are incredibly annoying, leaving me to not care if any of'em survives by the end or not.

Like I said above, the movie is just a bunch of pointless sequences and we're left with a lot of plot-holes. Instead of everyone trying to come up with an idea on how to leave the infested town, they instead decide to figure out a way into the nearby small police headquarters, claiming it's the "safest place to be." Regardless of whether it's safe or not, I don't see why they'd even want to hold up in a confined area again, when they can simply steal one of the many abandoned cars along the road and just take off.

As for pointless sequences go, I can think of two that are beyond pointless -- the first involving one of the car salesmen deciding to dissect one of the dead creatures for no real reason. This eventually leads to a lot of green goo, vomit, blood, ****, and semen being thrown around and for what? It's clear that their aim was to just gross out the viewers, but instead, it makes us (me anyway) just wonder why they even bothered, as it proved to offer no merit to the story aside from maybe one small tidbit revealed after all that mayhem.

Another scene I really despised was once again a scene that seemed to only exist just to cross boundaries and attempt to "shock" the audience. One of the characters decides to help rescue a crying baby trapped in a car. Well he does, and as he realizes he can't escape the creatures while carrying the baby, he gives up and decides to throw it in the air and let the beasts have at-it. WTF!? What the hell was even the point of him getting the kid if he was just going to give it up?

Then there's the FX. With a lower budget than the previous film, this one definitely suffered in practical and computer generated effects. Since a majority of movie takes place during the day, we see just how fake these creatures look, but the biggest problem lies within the horrible CGI. Blood splatters and obviously green-screen backdrops, this movie is just a CGI disaster towards the end.

All negative aside, there were a few moments where I was somewhat entertained, plus there's still a good amount of gore, it just doesn't look as good as it once did. In fact, a lot of the movie looks worse than its predecessor. Supposedly filmed back-to-back with Feast 3: The Happy Finish, if this is any indication where the next installment is headed, count me out. I had high hopes for this Feast trilogy, but this sequel has pretty much ruined everything for me.

OVERALL

This movie turned out to be a huge disappointment for me. Not only was it filled with plot-holes, but many of the scenes seemed to only exist to shock or disgust viewers and offer little-to-nothing to the story itself. With low-grade comedy and even lower production values and FX, not even the gore could save this one. Fans of the first will be sorely disappointed and I'd recommend just pretending this sequel never happened.


Man that kinda sucks....Feast was great. And even though these are written by the same guys, I guess it just isn't the same without Kevin Smith.