3/19/2023 0 Comments Cole the babysitterShe enters the scene unaware of Cole's history. Jenna Ortega ( Elena of Avalor and Jane the Virgin) co-stars as Phoebe, a transfer student, the same age as Cole. Again, this film is a live-action cartoon, so challenging the film's logic in the real world I suppose is pointless, but the film is adding more comedy by making the parents, specifically Cole's dad, seem dumb. His parents knew who the perpetrator was. Here, the previous events took place at Cole's house. In Terminator 2, it made more sense because there was essentially a cover-up by a huge corporation. The filmmakers put a wrinkle in this film, much like in Terminator 2, that nobody believes that Cole is telling the truth about what he experienced. This time though, the anxieties stem from the trauma he suffered in the previous film. This film is still about him getting over anxieties. It was also more about Cole getting over his social anxieties. The only thing that mattered was seeing the gory ways in which they died, as Cole accidentally killed them just trying to get away from them. Beyond their stereotypical and superficial personalities, it wasn't really clear who they were, what they wanted and why they were involved with the cult. The cult consisted of five people, including Cole's babysitter. Judah Lewis ( Point Break and Demolition) returns as Cole, the teenage boy who realized two years ago that his babysitter was part of a demonic cult that tried to extract his blood and kill him in order to complete a ritual that would magically give them whatever they wanted. This film instead ends on a very sex positive note, but not much of the comedy getting to that point made me laugh. The whole thing builds to a very juvenile punch-line, which I honestly thought was funny, that subverts an idea from horror or slasher flicks that are rather sex negative. There's plenty of blood and gore, but none of it is meant to be realistic. Yet, it's a horror comedy, which leans more toward the ridiculous and silly, not scary at all. It's still the same plot where a boy is running for his life because a group of psychotic group of twenty-somethings want to kill him. Except, instead of jumping over a decade into the future, this sequel is only two years later from the previous. Like Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the plot of this film is essentially the same as the plot of the previous. This film certainly makes references to that 1991 action flick. McG wanted this part 2 to be like Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). It's obvious that the hope here was for McG's follow-up film to do what James Cameron did for the Terminator franchise in its follow-up film. His 2017 film was a refreshing change for the mostly derided director. His highest-earning film in the box office was Terminator Salvation (2009) and even that film wasn't well received and considered a disappointment. His follow-up in that franchise failed to impress. McG made a name for himself after directing Charlie's Angels (2000), which became a blockbuster success for him. One metric to prove how well it did is that currently McG's 2017 film stands as his directorial effort with the highest Rotten Tomatoes score. It's unsure how much of a hit this film was, but the fact that Netflix green-lit this sequel is indication that it did reasonably well. McG's sequel to his hit film, The Babysitter (2017) is here, just in time for Halloween.
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