Even if I did see this in its original 3D format, I still don’t think Sadako 3D 2 would’ve been anything to write home about as the 3D effects are rather limited this time out. The only things that look like they may have popped out of the screen were leaves, molecules, hands, and bodies. It’s certainly less eye-popping than the first one, that’s for sure.
The daughter of the heroine from Sadako 3D has turned into one of those standard issue creepy kids you see in horror movies that have their hair all in their face, glower at adults, and draw spooky pictures of ominous events that you just know will happen sooner or later. She’s being raised by her aunt (mom died in childbirth offscreen) and the poor woman is ill-equipped to look after a goldfish let alone a creepy homicidal kid. Before long, anyone who remotely pisses the brat off gets killed by her psychic temper tantrums (but only if they’re on their phone or laptop). Is she really to blame for her telekinetic spurts of rage or is the evil Sadako controlling her from beyond the grave?
I wasn’t expecting much from Sadako 3D, but I found it to be an okay effort all things considered. This sequel delivered just about what I was expecting from the first one. Namely, not much.
The good news is that it isn’t a complete waste of time. We get a pretty good knife to the eye, and a decent jump scare when someone tosses themselves out of a window and lands on a car. The bad news is this is more of a creepy kid flick than a Ring sequel. As such, there isn’t really enough here to base an entire movie around. Much of the dialogue is exposition from the last movie and the new material assigned to the psychic kid is weak too.
I guess I could’ve let a lot of that slide had the finale been half as fun as the previous outing. I mean, say what you will about Sadako 3D, but at least the ending was kinda nuts. Unfortunately, the climax of this one is a big letdown.
AKA: Sadako 2 3D.
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