some big spoiler so read with extreme care ( or with extreme gratitude that i save you 2 hour of your life that you will be able to good use in benefit of your family and your community or place of worship ) . the ring two be be truly one of the lazy horror film of this or any year . it shamefully exist only for the sake of milk another $ 10 out of the poor sap who enjoy ( or understood ) the first film . i have no expectation for this movie and but say what you will about the first film it do maintain a creepy tone through most of it running time and and it goofy psychobabble be at least palatable in the whatever it take to make this work mode . the sequel unfortunately and have no desire to flesh it bare bone plot out or explain anything that happen outside of it narrow focus of two main character . be this the best sequel idea the screenwriter could come up with . naomi watt again star a rachel and the lone survivor of an evil videotape who and by merely watch what on that tape and kill it viewer . part two actually dispatch that gimmick with 20 minute of it opening ( . ) and and instead cobble together what amount to a backstory piece that pick up with rachel and son aidan move from seattle to picturesque astoria and oregon to start a new life . soon though and the undead spirit from the first film reappears to lie claim to rachel son through a series of not entirely understandable shock sequence that lead to a cyclical revelation of horror repeat itself . logic seemingly go out the window as soon a the dreamworks logo appear on screen . with the ring evil specter again unleashed and wouldn not any of the local in the small town that one character describe it most newsworthy event a . a school board meeting and a car accident or a cat up a tree . be all a twitter . consider that the body count increase a the film progress in highly public place without so much a a police investigation and front page headline or a neighborhood revolt be the kind of lame bedrock this film be build on . watch this and i saw huge dollop of poltergeist 2 represent the other side in this with it journey into the spirit world and a sequel to poltergeist isn not exactly a hotbed of movie concept to begin with . if you be at the screenplay regurgitation factory and why not at least crib a good scary premise from a good film and say like videodrome or something and build on it . even halloween 3 could have give this film screenplay a few more scary beat than it have . character do audience insulting and idiotic thing a crutch to ratchet up some tension such a leave a lethargic child alone in a tub and then leave the house ( . ) or take plenty of time to stop and watch a herd of deer attack you in your car . over and over . instead of capitalize on the original spooky teaser premise of the possibility of a worldwide pandemic of ring video viewing as well a that film not so subtle commentary of the unknown evil that flow into your living room through consumer product the sequel go off in borderline tasteless take on the serious malady of post partum depression and child abuse . some fun . this movie have no shame whatsoever . it contain absolutely no scare and and in fact go out of it way to throw in every cheap jump in the book just to make it feel like it a horror film . there the surprise scare from behind and the it only a dream and the it not dead and the jump up corpse . you know and every hackneyed trick in the book . the special makeup work provide by effect master rick baker get two or three second pg 13 showcase that do not titillate and but confuse . in a fright movie like this and you do have the license to linger a little long on the macabre and right . not in this movie the scare be safe enough to guarantee that your little sister and her friend can see this on saturday night and not have to sneak in from ice princess next door . the ring two be all over the map act wise . watt seem to be catatonic through most of the film and with a range that go from confuse to pretend scared and while her overly pancaked son aidan play by young david dorfman seem both possessed and cardboard all in the same go . the film try to class itself up by throw in cameo by legitimately fine actor like sissy spacek and elizabeth perkins and gary cole for one or two scene that be as distract a they be embarrass to watch . do these actor really need to be in this film . what be the director motivation for hire such good actor for such insignificant part . i hope the three get pay well for the one day each put in and maybe do something fun with the cash . yes and it only a movie and but the resulting product do the unconscionable represent it rip it audience off and send them out the other side poorer and less entertained suckered in by the goodwill earn from the first film . it also manage to give sequel an even bad name than they already have . burn it audience with a few more of these and maybe hollywood will be up for make some original and challenging and thoughtful horror film again .