The first Jeepers Creepers was only marginally entertaining for me, though I applaud the Horrorist for making the savvy observation in his post that sometimes the unhappy ending is more effective.

Keeping that in mind, only one sequence in Jeepers Creepers 2 worked for me - the opening, with the kid in the wheat field. There was a nice, ominous vibe reminiscent of the final shot in the original film going on. Maybe if the film had continued in this vein, Jeepers Creepers 2 would have worked. Instead, we get yet another substandard, needless sequel existing solely to line producers pockets.

I agree the effects were well executed, but they were pulled off in service of a really bad film.
Some random advice for student filmmakers who might want to try their hand at a film like this:

- A close up of the grinning , fedora wearing monstrosity which results in his looking like Fred Krueger genetically spliced with Alfred E. Neuman isn't scary. Ever.

- If your director is a convicted pedophile, do NOT allow him to populate the film with teenage jocks taking their shirts off. That's creepy for precisely the wrong reasons.

- If the monster tears a hole in the roof of the bus your human characters are trapped inside of, it's probably not a good idea to have the characters launching into asinine philosophical debates pertaining to who should live or die every ten minutes while standing right beneath the SAME FUCKING HOLE! Corollary to this: It is also inadvisable to have one of these random dipshits stick their head out of the hole to see how things are going up there.

I kid you not, I could swear I felt myself losing IQ points as this film went on. The characters are idiots, there really isn't a plot, and the resolution is hackneyed and ineffective.

The physical presence of The Creeper himself- a terrific villian in search of a much better franchise - earns this waste of space:

Two out of Ten Hopelessly Stupid Students

What a piece of crap, it's that simple. I have no doubt the filmmakers made this up as they went along, and not very well. The Creeper looked great, all the effects were great and lots of the kills were great, yet I bitch - why?

First off, the first Jeepers Creepers wasn't great, just good. It was entertaining, but no great creative feat or anything, I didn't expect any more from this one, yet left the theater annoyed. I was annoyed because of that little thing called logic. This guy is only awake twenty-three days every twenty-three years, yet he finds the time to make magical throwing daggers from his victims?

This movie takes place a couple days after the first one, why didn't he use the daggers in the first one? Every time he attacks someone he loses more body parts then he gets, shouldn't he quit while he's ahead?

Will we have to wait 23 years for a sequel? Jeepers, I hope so.

3 out of 10