Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/29/2008 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Nr Product Description
Look, is this a five star movie? No. It is a three star movie. I gave it five to help try and get the overall rating up closer to the three it deserves. This movie does not have the all charm, fun and fright of the first, but it is an enjoyable trip down memory lane for those who loved the first one. The script is a bit of a let down, as it is essentially the same story all over again. What saves the movie are the surprisingly good performances by the three leads: cute and sexy Autumn Reeser, the unfortunately named Tad Hilgenbrink, and of course, Corey "Frog" Feldman. It was interesting to see the younger Sutherland playing Keifer's old role, but he doesn't have the chops, if you'll excuse the pun. He's a little too smooth, which eliminates the danger factor.
So, overall, I say if you enjoyed the first one, get this one too.
Just don't expect it to be as good, and you can enjoy the surprise of having it not totally suck.
November 23, 2008Like many of you I'm a huge fan of the first Lost Boys movie from 1987. And it proved quite the fond childhood memory for me and always will! But this piece of trash just won't fly! I mean you're joking right?! Unfortunately this movie was "TOTALLY SCREWED" from the getgo!! In the first Lost Boys they did the right thing by makeing it a mystery as to who the vampires were. As if it wasn't bad enough that the surfer characters including Angus Sutherland were talking obscure trash to one another they just had to give away the fact that they were all vampires way too early in the movie!! All I liked about the beginning is that for the first time in 12 years we get to see Tom"Sex Machine"Savini play a vampire again! The problem is not only was it too brief a cameo but for some confusing reason Angus's character Shane and the rest of his vampires got into altercations with him and they "KILL A FELLOW VAMPIRE!!! His half-brother Keifer's vampire character David wouldn't have done that. And yes Tom's small appearance was the only cool moment in this complete compost heap of a movie!! I mean the script was just dreadful, the acting was even more dreadful(to say nothing of all the performances being completely wooden), they completely wrote off the other Frog brother, Michael, Star, Lucy, and the other Corey was given a cheap, unneccessary and just plain CORNY small appearance at the end credits part. I mean you just can't write off everybody's favorite characters and ever hope to make it just as enjoyable as the first! SORRY!! What's worse is Corey Feldman's acting was not only embarrasing to the max and just didn't have one line that even remotely passed as funny but he was talking with that same stupid gravelly voice that he spoke with in "The Puppetmaster Vs. The Demonic Toys!! WTF was he attempting a Stallone impression?! 'Cause if so he shouldn't give up his day job!! And even worse his character(Edgar Frog) kept on half bringing up this story about him having lost his brother Alan Frog somehow, but he neither goes into any real detail about it nor is there ever even a flashback. HUH?!! And in general the cast that they do work with are so bad that I hope they never act again. In particular Angus Sutherland is every bit as handsome as Keifer but he neither possesses his talent nor Donald's either! LOL!! All that was good about this movie was the nudity that's it. Even though it was very cheesey the way it was presented. What I really hated was the surfer vampires first wanting to keep a low-profile only to tease and taunt the cops while one delivers a cheesey attempt to rip-off that famous line from "The Warriors"! And also it was unbelievable stupid and disgusting when the vampires would for no apparent reason mutilate eachother just for fun. How SICK!! And why was there no explanation as to how they could later regenerate!! I just couldn't make any sense out of why no two vampires ever seem to die the same way either. Let's see we impale one on deerhorns and she turns to what looked like hail stones. And another after having a stake go through him is chundering blood and oozing what looks like shaving cream. And when shane gets killed we see a cheesey/fake looking special effect of him on fire?! Wait a minute I saw that vampire death the first time when it happened in the Blade movies!! And as for the deerhorns death well not only did that kind of death already get used in Silent Night,Deadly Night but also in the first Lost Boys! How Original!! LOL. And the soundtrack forget about it!! There were no impressive songs in the soundtrack at all!! All I'm saying is if you love the first Lost Boys as much as I did than definitly steer clear of this garbage all together! PS They also want to make a Goonies sequel and well considering how bad this sh** was "let's hope they never do"!!!
November 7, 2008 |  | Not as bad as everyone says |  |
First of all, i have always heard that this movie was really bad and that i should avoid it. But as a fan of Corey Feldman and Corey Haim i couldn't resist buy it on blu-ray.
Well i watched it last night and...it was not as bad. The acting for the most part was really good and the movie was pretty ok. The worst acting, i think, was from Angus Sutherland. Perhaps his father Donald should teach him one or two things about acting :)
But some things raised my mind every now and again. First, are Chris and Nicole Emerson the children of Mikael and Star (from the first movie?) we are never told. Second, in the mine scenes, a vampire tells Edgar Frog that his brother is here, but i didn't see him ??? confused.
Well. If you liked the first movie don't have to high hopes for this one but you won't be dissapointed either. It has it's moments and it nice to see Corey Feldman back in business!
November 4, 2008I really enjoyed this movie so much. lots of gore and silly humor makes for the perfect Lost boys movie. More hard core than the first....but was a lot of fun.
November 2, 2008Wow, all I have to say is that if you're an original Lost Boys fanatic like myself, then don't even waste your time w/ this film. The acting was horrible, the vampires were geeks, they weren't cool and "edgey" like the original Lost Boys, someone needs to mail Joel Schumaker a copy of this garbage and hopefully he will redo his original version or something!!
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