I Still Know What You Did Last Summer Review

When I walked out of the screening of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer I overheard a group of young people discussing the logic of the film... You know how it goes ... `Yeah, but why did they leave him lying there?` ... As if it mattered. I found it touching that the film demanded that of them... and this is a film that demands pretty much nothing from anyone. It`s a sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer, a slasher movie which launched the screen career of the Fisherman, another in the series of Freddy Krugers and Jasons who serial kill in a particularly bloody fashion for reasons not made particularly clear, Ever. Jennifer Love Hewitt reprises her role as the victimised Julie James who in this film finds herself on a holiday island with three friends and no other guests with ever-diminishing possiblities of social interaction...The first in the series, which I believe came after Scream, did moderately well at the American Box Office which is reason enough to make another. Both could be eliminated from our collective film memory without any appreciable loss. Director Danny Cannon has not gone for subtlety, every horror cliche is brought into play with predictable red herrings almost more effective than the appearance of the Fisherman himself. There are no characters in this film, there are no real situations, there are cardboard cutouts of everything and everyone. For a button-pushing movie, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer will fit the bill. But for anyone who likes texture in their favoured genre forget this one.