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The Grudge 2 is a spooky installment in Takashi Shimizu's hardworking Ju-on/Grudge series of horror pictures. It doesn't carry the disorienting thrill of the very first Japanese Ju-on features, but it's a lot creepier than anybody could have expected. The story picks up from the end of the first Hollywood version of The Grudge, and has nothing to do with Ju-on 2, Shimizu's Japanese sequel. Sarah Michelle Gellar returns (a distinctly supporting role) as an American woman traumatized by her experiences with a haunted house in Tokyo; younger sister Amber Tamblyn flies over to help out. This particular storyline doesn't have much meat on it; the murder house is still there, and people who go inside have a disconcerting habit of dropping dead. Fortunately, two other plots thread into the basic one: a group of American schoolgirls in Tokyo become intrigued by the legend of the house, and some Chicago apartment dwellers are unsettled by domestic anxiety and the weird sounds coming from next door. (This storyline, featuring Jennifer Beals, gives the film its extremely satisfying opening sequence.) As usual with these movies, sequences come to us in non-chronological order, and it's up to us to piece it together. You can guess where the film is going, but the slow trajectory toward its final sequences is surprisingly involving. The movie was widely panned upon its release, which says more about the presumption of the law of diminishing sequel returns than the film itself--it's a decent little horror flick. --Robert Horton

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CATEGORY:	DVD
DIRECTOR:	Takashi Shimizu
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE:	13 October, 2006
MANUFACTURER:	Sony Pictures
MPAA RATING:	PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
FEATURES:	AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
TYPE:	Feature Film Drama, Feature Film-drama, Horror, Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Movie
MEDIA:	DVD
# OF MEDIA:	1
UPC:	043396150911

Customer Reviews of The Grudge 2

It just does not measure up
To the original Grudge that is. The first movie I thought was very scary and down right super freaky in some parts. This movie does have a few parts that are are scary . But I must stress the word (few) very brief and far in between . The movie is only about 90 minutes but it feels so much longer because of a slow story. I will also agree with some of the other reviews that say that this movie recycles too much of what was seen in the first movie. That about sums it up .

It Goes On and On and ...
In "The Grudge 2" Kayako and Toshio, two horrible ghosts with bone-white skins and goggling eyes (or whatever they really are) return to us. And they just don't return; they have become more "ubiquitous." They pop up whenever and wherever they want, and never fail to send signals before they terrorize the victims with strange noise or something else. <
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>That means, you can read the pattern; once you do, you only wait for the next scary part to be delivered. The film becomes a series of set-pieces. They are cleverly staged, but they soon begin to be less and less shocking as the film goes on. The dark, brooding photography by Katsumi Yamagijima (famous for collaboration with Kitano) is fantastic, and yes, there are some jump-in-your-seat moments and unpredictable things (like that "milk" scene), but nothing really scary or chilling. <
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>"The Grudge 2" has three stories loosely connected to each other (one of them is set in USA though the "Chicago" scenes are in fact shot in Japan) and none of them is hard to follow, but none of them is really intriguing either. You don't know what really happened to the main characters until the last chapter where different times and spaces start to merge with skillful editing. (This is a method the director used for his Japanese film "Reincarnation.") By then, however, most of us have lost interest in the film itself, which only repeats the same trick as the first "Grudge" installment. <
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>After all with this jumbled storyline, we cannot relate to any of the characters, and we just don't care if someone is dead or survives. There are some nice twists given to the plot (relations between Amber Tamblyn's character and Kayako, for instance), but they are introduced so abruptly that it is neither surprising nor interesting. And as to Sarah Michelle Gellar, she is here to remind that we are watching the sequel.

Another Crappy Americanized J-Horror Movie
What can I say but ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!! what was I thinking getting this movie I can't blame anyone but myself even my friends told me not to get this but like so many others I feel into a commercialized daze and bought it going home thinking 'WOW' this is going to be a great horror movie I couldn't have been more wrong watching the movie it became more of not if the grudge was going to get them but praying and begging for the grudge to finish them off me and my friends and family cheered each time a character got knocked off.I'll give you some info the story has Karen from the first movie hospitalized in a japan where her apathetic sister Aubrey who is asked 'More Liked Nagged And Told' by their mother to bring her back home at the hospital Karen tells Aubrey not to go inside the house shortly after Karen is killed by the grudge 'YES THANK GOD!!' and Aubrey 'Thinking her sister killed herself' tries to figure out the mystery of what happened to her sister and about the mysterious house her sister was talking about Also in the movie you have two small side stories one is about three high school girls and what happens to them after being inside the house And a family in Chicago who 'Later in the movie you'll find out why' get caught in the grudge too. Rent the movie but save yourself some great pain and don't buy it