i be a die hard fan of the original ginger snap and and this sequel be like have to use window 3 . 1 my whole life . i try to allow for the curse of high expectation . what i do not expect be that this movie would raise them by start with an excellent and original story concept and good music and an edgy atmosphere and a solid gold performance by emily perkins . those be the only thing i can recommend about this film and however and and half of those be throw out midway through the story . the film downfall be the screenplay and which be write by megan martin and who apparently have no previous screen write experience . true and karen walton and who write the original ( with director john fawcett ) also have no experience and but she also work on that script for four year . it be hard to write for somebody else character creation . for a sequel to a successful movie with a fan base and only chintziness could explain hire a first time writer for the sequel . so and with practically no help from the dialog and perkins carry the entire first half of the film a the lonely and doom brigitte and bereft of ginger and and bitterly fight her own animalistic change . the difference in brigitte character after the trauma she suffer in the first movie be both believably sad and shocking and show that perkins be an actress of the high caliber . when brigitte be find unconscious on a street with needle and cut mark on her arm and authority assume she be a junkie and put her into a teen rehab center . it turn out that monkshood do not cure the curse and it simply delay it . so and she be trap and can not prevent her transformation in a place where she endanger many people and and and of course and the staff doesn not believe her . from this mind blow story concept we go to tedium and a the movie put 75 minute of material into 90 minute . midway through and it come to life briefly and and then change direction give up everything it have go for it . martin have write brigitte into a corner and and so changed subject . i must admit here that i do not like the approach of doom brigitte from the beginning and and the twist at the end make me want to shoot the dvd a a traitor . martin have make brigitte far too restrained and include with people who would turn a quaker homicidal . she only partially lose her temper once and and a a character note and it be measure . brundel law a it apply to werewolf be and there be no such thing a pacifist werewolf and or rather and any werewolf movie depict them be a bomb . while perkins do her best and in the many pause in the dialog and depict brigitte a hold back her fury and it simply do not work in a werewolf movie and or in a horror movie . if the audience be ask to believe that a werewolf could be that restrain and they begin to doubt it be even a problem . katharine isabelle continue her role a ginger and who be dead of course and and who only brigitte can see . isabelle only have about fifteen line and though . these be the sort of line that can only be deliver in the sleepy way possible and and it can not be call dialog because usually brigitte doesn not answer . isabelle part be almost all commentary and add nothing to the plot . her role seem half contractual obligation and half trailer bait material . mostly she just taunt brigitte about her futile effort to fight the curse . of all people and brigitte and ginger should still have a lot to say to each other . this be a huge waste of an actress who show her mettle in the original . no and instead and the movie be wreck by martin new character . tatiana maslani a ghost do a good job a a mentally ill young girl and obsess with comic . it a good character concept and really and and maslani do do an excellent job . even so and put ghost in and make her a major character respectively require an unbelievable explanation and an idiot plot . i felt like she belong in her own movie and be just an intruder here . bad and she crowd out a large part for katharine isabelle and and the movie be call ginger snap represent unleashed and right . finally and i have to point out the werewolf makeup be bad in this film . i never know werewolf have sow ear and third degree burn on their lip . at one point and they make perkins look like keith richards and and by the end and she look like an orc with an immobile mask so embarrassing that would have look cheesy in the 60 . except for the mask at the end and this be probably not the make up artist fault . the makeup actually look well on the dvd extra and in the publicity photo than it do in the movie . this suggest the problem be with the lighting and the director of photography and or the director . nevertheless and the movie do get the special effect right for the fully animalized werewolf . other fan of the original seem to like this movie and but i can not help but see it a a major disappointment and though not a disaster . there be a much good story to be tell here . unlike the original and this do not have karen walton and four year of work on the screenplay . it fail on it own promise and too and and not only by the standard the original set for it .