Friday the 13th, Part II

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Min./Paramount Home Video & Georgetown Productions Inc./ Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director...........Steve Miner (Friday the 13th III, House, Warlock)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.....Ron Kurz</B></div> <div> <B>Music..............Harry Manfredini (Friday the 13th & Part III)</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Steve Miner</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....</B></div> <div> <B>Special Make-up Effects by Carl Fullerton</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Ginny..........Amy Steel (April Fool's Day, Walk Like a Man)</B></div> <div> <B>Paul...........John Furey (Mutant on the Bounty)</B></div> <div> <B>Alice..........Adrienne King (Friday the 13th)</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Voorhees..Betsy Palmer (Friday the 13th, The Last Angry Man)</B></div> <div> <B>Terry..........Kirsten Baker (Gas Pump Girls)</B></div> <div> <B>Ted............Stu Charno</B></div> <div> <B>Jason..........Warrington Gillette</B></div> <div> <B>Crazy Ralph....Walt Gorney (Friday the 13th)</B></div> <div> <B>Sandra.........Marta Kober</B></div> <div> <B>Mark...........Tom McBride</B></div> <div> <B>Jeff...........Bill Randolph</B></div> <div> <B>Vickie.........Lauren-Marie Taylor</B></div> <div> <B>Scott..........Russell Todd (Chopping Mall, One Last Run, Sweet Murder)</B></div> <div> <B>The Cop........Jack Marks</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: The high point of this movie are the flashbacks from part one. There are loose ends in this movie and it breaks from the formula inexcusably. What happens to the bores in the bar? They just get away? This is a slasher movie! - yet these idiots survive. We quickly learn to dislike the protagonist, and hence are rooting for her elimination rather than feeling the requisite sympathy for her. That her original behavior (late for work, drunk in the bar, wanted to have sex) goes unpunished doesn't even work as a surprise. Since this one doesn't offer anything else teenagers might enjoy, the gore rating has to be considered a disappointment. As of part two, we must ask, what's all the hubbub about Jason anyway? He pales in comparison to his mother as does this movie to its predecessor.           </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Alice is understandably still having nightmares about her experiences at Camp Crystal Lake (an excuse to cut into a wonderful recap of the first film of the series) and is now doing the best she can living on her own, but she knows that Jason is still out there and can't sleep. She won't have to take any sleeping pills. Having severed any important link to the fine first film in the series, this lame sequel starts the messy business now in its 3rd decade of mediocrity. The counselors are rolling in to the camp across from Camp Crystal Lake (Camp Blood) where they receive the requisite warning from Crazy Ralph. (Say goodbye to crazy Ralph) The new camp, a counselor training site, is also a bit too close to Camp Blood for the chief of police, about whom they don't have to worry for long. The preparations for the opening are going according to plan when the counselors split up. Half go to town to enjoy their last day off and the others remain at the camp to flirt. Hopelessly understaffed, the counselors start to disappear. Scott, who has disappointed us up to this point (he meets a girl by shooting her in the butt with a slingshot) is dispatched first (which caused the reviewers to cheer) while his drunk colleagues at the bar theorize about the legend of Jason Vorhees  What would he be like if the legend were real? The only person who he ever knew was his mother and he must have seen her beheaded on the beach. We guess that left him kind of angry. No compassion even for the physically disabled. Ginny has a face-off with Jason in his mother's shrine where her theory comes in handy. Dawning his mother's sweater, she convinces the "poor swimmer" that she is his mother. Somehow supernatural, Jason survives some real abuse and is last seen leaping through the window at the so-called protagonist. However, inexplicably, our heroine survives and is driven away in an ambulance.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>