I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Jake tries to make his girlfriend Emily watch a cursed tape. But then Jake finds out that Emily covered her eyes and didn't watch the tape, and then Jake is killed by Samara Morgan. Rachel Keller learns of Jake's death and finds his twisted body in the back of an ambulance. Rachel then realizes she once again has to save her son Aidan from Samara the evil ghost child. The Ring Two is actually a pretty decent sequel to a pretty decent original that once again works thanks to Naomi Watts but also a storyline that although not original fun enough for sure. (6/10)

The ring two is better than rings dont listen to the haters and the critics they didn't watch the new version of that movie. The old versions was not good but the new version was very much better then theatrical version

Let me start by explaining that on the subject of 'The Ring' lore i find myself in a personally very strange, while far from unique position that i'm sure is reflected in my judgement but in no way decreases its validity.It is indeed a rare instance to find myself in a position of having seen a remake before the original, especially in cases wherein the two are only separated by a few years, but this is unfortunately the case as regards The Ring franchise. To my shame, I have yet to see in full Hideo Nakata's iconic 'J-Horror', Ringu, though obviously I am familiar with the story, and in addition, (being a relatively accomplished 'cinephile') with the ground breaking low budget effects and the iconic 'television crawling' sequence, which has inspired nightmares world-wide since it's release. It is then, a great testament to The Ring, that to this day, (April 16th 2016, as of writing) I have still not seen it, because with respect, due to the remarkably unexpected quality of the American remake, I don't really have to. Nakata's Ringu (1998) will be forever acknowledged as the influential stroke of genius behind the franchise, However, against all odds, Gore Verbinski and Dreamworks produced a totally unexpected gem of a remake that not only successfully launched the franchise to a worldwide audience, but stands out as horror film that can be enjoyed in its own right. Herein, is where I, alongside the majority, of viewers was first introduced to the franchise. The Ring (2002) was a surprisingly solid if not spectacular 2000's horror that combined enduring detective genre tropes, with an 'un-contextualised' (for mainstream audiences at least) 'off-beat' supernatural threat, to create a compelling and suspenseful original story, which brought to life through slick direction and haunting cinematography created genuine scares across a varied age demographic, so what of it's much anticipated sequel 'The Ring 2' (2005).Well I would be lying if I said, first watching this, 11 years after it's theatrical release, that I was expecting it to be good, after all, why wait so long, if warmly anticipating it? However, it is definitely unfair to suggest that I did not give the film a fair chance, to begin with, I had unexpectedly very much enjoyed the first film, so much so that it shares the dual honours of not only making my highly prestigious top 20 horrors list, but also being the only one I have ever seen in my 25 years of life, to genuinely scare me, at the very least on my initial viewing (it is also important to note that of was of the certified viewing age at this time). Then there was the fact that the director of the original Ringu, Nakata had been recruited, to replace much maligned and genre inconsistent Verbinski, and moreover, the original source material had not yet run dry, with Nakata having himself already created a sequel to his original Ringu, in 1999, so what went wrong?I would say that The Ring 2 picks up where we left off with protagonist Rachel and son Aiden trying to return to a normal life, after moving to a new town to start afresh. Instead we are first treated to clichéd opening horror opening wherein we see the same opening scene from the first film, just with new characters, and an archetypal tweaking of the formula to further flesh out the caveats of the curse, in order to provide some type of substantial new ground upon which to mount a new direction for the story. Though sadly as hard as they tried, extensively fleshing out the mythology to the point of including Samara's true origins, her birth mother, Evelyn as played by the 'iconically' creepy Sissy Spacek, and even reversing the climax to have Rachel going into the video, rather than Samara come out, none of it pays off. The story is god awful, flouting its own rules as set out in the original, to the extent that we are no longer invested in the suspense, as the threat seems too omnipotent to overcome, and as such we are really not engaged enough, to wait 110 minutes for the writers to come up with some hackneyed explanations as to how the characters are able to succeed in doing this. Nakata's direction is passable, and some of the scenes are surprisingly beautiful for a horror film, particularly in terms of capturing landscapes. However, the creepy unsettling tone and lighting of the original is instead replaced by cheap jump scares and 'effect-fetishising'. To the film's credit, the effects (honourable mention to the consistently brilliant Rick Baker) are with the exception of the terrible 'deer' scene, somewhat of a marked improvement on Verbinski's dated CGI, but they are overindulgent and forget the fundamental subtlety, implemented in the first film, where less was more, and suggestion central in generating suspense, and sparking our own subconscious fears. The acting, while i'm sure no-one expected a masterclass, was too hammy, and step down from the previous film, even as regarding the usually dependable Naomi Watts, and young David Dorfman (a minor revelation in The Ring), with Spacek providing us with only a mild relief, in a reasonably creepy cameo as Samara's mother Evelyn. However, this far from saves the film, and in perhaps it's biggest crime of all, excepting the irredeemable CGI deer sequence ('the horror!' X2) the film, fails to follow up on the consequences of its climax meaning that, after we are treated to a retrospectively, humorous preamble to Bruce Wayne's prison escape in the Dark Knight Rises (2012), Rachel escapes Samara and the tape, everyone lives, and we're back to square one. Watchable on a one off basis, for fans or The Ring, curious to see where the story goes, but don't expect anything more than closure. 4.2/10 Regards, Doctor J - 'The Doctor will see you now'

Aidan (David Dorfman) and Rachel (Naomi Watts) have moved to a small town in Oregon. However the videotape seems to have followed them after Rachel finds another one of those strange deaths. Rachel takes the tape and burns it. Samara starts coming after Aidan, and Rachel must dig up the past to put it to rest.The great thing about this sequel is that the actors came back to finish the story off. It's interesting to go back to the source story. However the franchise can't surprise the audience any more. It was a nice fresh idea in the first movie, but the sequel can't shock us anymore. It's a good wrap up. I hope they don't keep dragging this out like other franchises.