The story picks up soon after the first movie and find Mike (Josh Hutcherson) taking care of his sister Abby (Piper Rubio), as they attempt to move on with their lives Vanessa (Elizabeth Lail), is having a harder time adjusting but has grown closer to Mike as their friendship through shared trauma is a bonding factor.
Things take a turn for the worse when something from the original Freddy’s location emerges and soon plots a tale of revenge that will extend to the town and threaten all who cross their path. Abby desperately misses her friends and longs to return and becomes a focal point in the grander threat that is facing the city.
Naturally Mike and Abby are pulled into the mix and there are folks along the way to serve as collateral damage when they make the mistake of crossing the animatronic threats.
While the movie retains a PG-13 rating and uses implied versus visual violence in many instances; there are still moments that had the audience at my screening shrieking and jumping.
My biggest issue with the film is that it took some time to get to the action; only to find the big threat handled in a rather abrupt and unsatisfactory way. The film very clearly sets up a new chapter and there is a mid-credit scene as well as an audio segment at the end of the credits which opens a much larger door for future installments and had the audience cheering.
The visuals of the film were a step up from the first film as the new version animatronics mixed well with the look from the prior film. The story was more streamlined as the larger plotline of Mike and his haunting memories and visions was not really a factor as this was a more direct approach in that we are introduced to an enemy and given their motivation but there methodology is rather simplistic and keeps the drama to a minimum.
Blumhouse clearly knows the target audience for the film, and it likely will be another successful entry in the series; I had just hoped for a bit more the second time around.
3 stars out of 5
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