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Lisa Rose, Seattle Times: It basically repeats the events of the first film with some roles reversed and perversions intensified. For all its visual audacity, The Grudge 2 is quite predictable in its pattern of behavior. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: The more Grudge films you see, the more the rules in this universe are unveiled as totally random -- to the point where you stop caring. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: While [The Grudge 2] deserves some credit for creating and sustaining a creepy atmosphere, it doesn't matter much when the plot doesn't go anywhere. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: The film feels more like several small, disconnected pieces thrown together rather than a satisfying whole. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Takako Fuji and Ohga Tanaka, as the ghosts, do MTV Movie Award-caliber work by just crouching in a phone booth. Read more
Los Angeles Times: Grudge 2 is such a complete rehash of its predecessor that it's likely that those who haven't seen the original (American or Japanese versions) will enjoy the sequel more than those who have. Read more
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: What's a bad sequel but a revenant soul doomed to repeat itself? Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The Grudge 2 is just a melange of images, some mildly disturbing, but mostly just variations on a theme: an unblinking eye, a spectral presence lurking in a dark corner, a sexy schoolgirl in uniform. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: There are a couple of good jumps here and there, but we've seen this all before. And the creepy, dead girl, having been infinitely parodied (especially in Scary Movie 4), doesn't seem quite so creepy anymore. Read more
Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: Some unsettling moments here, but the evil ghost itself is a predictable one-trick pony. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: It isn't a bad movie, just a redundant one. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Very little about the plot actually makes sense, but who needs logic when you've got a creepy ghost child and his banshee mom lurking around? Read more
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Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: The Grudge 2, Takashi Shimizu's wildly uneven but ambitious new film -- his second American remake -- is one of the best entries in the Japanese director's Ju-On/Grudge series. Read more
Malene Arpe, Toronto Star: It is a testament to the power of filmmaking that even a waste of time like Grudge 2 can raise a slew of interesting questions to keep you thinking for a long time after leaving the theatre. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by The Grudge 2, from Takashi Shimizu, a movie so bewildering and impenetrable that I believe it siphoned off a good 40 IQ points. Read more