I Still Know What You Did Last Summer -- 1998 -- R

This was an incredibly uneven sequel to the rather decent "I Know What You Did Last Summer" of the previous year. It starts out pretty good with Julie James being the girl haunted by what went on in the previous film. She kind of lives in fear since the body of her haunter was never found. They win a radio contest and that's when the contrivances begin. These are things that happen for the sole purpose of furthering the plot, but the chances of them happening in reality are slim to none.

We actually start with Ray's trip to meet Julie. The last word anyone got on Ray was that he's working all weekend, and yet, by some freak coincidence, the fisherman blocks his path on the highway to meet Julie. This is where the movie started to lose it and we're not even 20 minutes in. There is no way anyone could have known that Ray would be on that road at that moment. None. Not even Ray would have known that.

Julie gets a warning on a Karaoke screen. In the midst of a song, it spouts "I know what you did last summer" before blanking out. Sorry, karaoke lyrics are preprogrammed for the song. In order for this to work, the killer would have had to pick the song for Julie to sing and have reprogrammed the lyrics. Yeah...no. Spooky, but unbelievable.

I just love the way everyone yells in this one. Ty yells at Julie and makes fun of her. The weird part here is that at the beginning, Kara knows about Ben Willis and what happened the previous year. Then Julie tells the whole story and no one seems to have known about it. They are accepting at one moment, then Julie is a bad friend or something for keeping the truth to herself. Would friends completely discount the words of their friend so quickly?

Gotta love the whole "we'll go this way. Stay here; you'll be safer." Yeah, this guy's been running everywhere and one place is any safer than another? Why don't people just stick together in these movies?

And finally, the creme de la creme of stupidity: Kara jumps off a balcony and lands of the glass roof of the greenhouse. Of course, she flips out about being on this glass roof; who wouldn't? Then she performs the "my director told me to do this" move. She steps directly in the middle of a glass panels and watches it splinter under her feet. She then places her other foot right next to it. Guess what happens. If you said the panel broke under her weight and she falls into a locked building, you win the prize. An intelligent person would have had her walk on the support beams.

So, this movie failed miserably to deliver any more than an average slasher to an above average first installment. Most of what happened occurred because the plot required it. The "slicker guy" had no rhyme to his death choices and it was mainly a "kill everyone and take no prisoners" plot that is the fare of slashers. Nothing new. Nothing innovative. Just an average movie.