Movie Review: The Ring 2

This is the funniest movie I've seen in a long time...No lie. This movie is chocked full of hilarity. I thought this was supposed to be a psycho-suspense, super scary, thriller, but it's actually a genius comedy. If you can remember back to the first 'Ring', Rachel, a reporter living in Seattle with her little boy, Aidan, discover a video tape where the people who watch it mysteriously die seven days after they watch it. Anyway, Rachel is forced to unravel the mystery of the tape in order to save Aidan. She discovers that the tape is linked to a little girl, Samara, who appears to be related to Gollum from 'The Lord of the Rings', although they didn't trace her family tree back that far. Rachel (Naomi Watts) finds that Samara was adopted and to make a long, boring story short, her step mother killed her by throwing her down a well, but somehow the little girl's evil spirit is kept alive in this low quality video tape...Funny stuff, right? Well, Rachel, finally figures out how to save herself and Aidan by making a copy of the tape, yeah, it's stupid, happily ever after and all that crap, because you knew there would be a sequel.

That brings us to 'The Ring 2'. It starts off with a couple of high school kids where this guy is trying to get this girl he was with to watch this 'freaky' video with him. At this point, I'm thinking porno, but no, the video just happens to be the copy of the ring video from the first movie. Who could have guessed that? Of course this all takes place in Astoria, Washington, which just so happens to be where Rachel and Aidan moved to leave their past behind them and start a new life. Rachel is working for a local news agency in Astoria when she learns of the death of the high school student who had viewed the tape. She investigates the strange occurrence. She sneaks into the ambulance to view the dead body, to see the face of the dead student. This provides the first moment of comic relief of the the film as the audience gets to see the face, which is all jacked up, but it's funny because it looks just like Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' painting. So, at this point, Rachel realizes that Samara is back on the loose and starts freakin' out. First she obtains the tape and burns it with gasoline...The end, right? Unfortunately for everyone watching this nonsense, no. Samara ends up possessing Aidan at some kind of county fair while he goes into the restroom, presumably to drop a deuce. Once Samara's spirit is inside of Aidan, more weirdness ensues, which brings us to the funniest part of the movie...It's classic. The kid starts creepin' out these massive deer on the drive home through the woods and they start attacking the car, charging it and smashing all the windows out. The deer, which are obviously computer generated, oddly give up and leave. You just have to question, 'Why deer?', I mean, they (the film makers) could have used bears, cougars, or wolves, but I personally think Sasquatch would have been classic in this situation. The deer were funny though. Well, for me, the movie went downhill from this point on, and I lost interest. There was only one more Edvard Munch-Scream-face the rest of the way and Rachel ends up figuring everything out as usual, just like 'Scooby Doo' except not as suspenseful or as cool as Shaggy and the gang, although she is nice to look at. Now I'll admit that if the movie had cast the kid from 'Jerry McGuire' as Aidan then I would definitely watch it again and again, but I don't think I will waste time and money on anything this stupid again.