Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Just perfect...

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

When I saw this advertised on TV, I was a bit apprehensive. How could they possibly follow the first film after what happens at the end of the first, but I was willing to give it a go. After the first 10 minutes, I thought I was watching the wrong film and had to check to make sure. But no, it was the right one. I had to force myself to watch it the third time (I kept flicking over after 15 minutes of so) just to find out what they were trying to accomplish.Basically, the first film had me enthralled from the beginning. This film I ended up laughing during it. I actually thought it was a comedic parody.My personal opinion? Don't watch this, watch the first one again!

Roger Kumble wants very much for Cruel Intentions 2, to be like the original, only he doesn't have the budget for it, nor the talented cast that he did in the 1st to pull it off. For starters the only impressive cast members in this movie are Sarah Thompson, and the now infamous Amy Adams, Robbin Dunne is a low rent version of Ryan Phillippe. This plays of a prequel of sorts to Cruel Intentions, but really it's more like a poor rehash of the original, even mimicking some of the classic dialog from the original. I didn't feel the realness between Sebastian and Danielle, that I did between Annette and Sebastian, it just felt thrown in there. It never takes itself very seriously, and normally that's a good quality to have, but that's what made the original so powerful, it almost seems like a spoof at times. The loads of nudity is unnecessary along with the stupid subplot of Sebastian's dad.SPOILERS : It turns out Danielle was in it all along with Kathryn to toy with him, and all 3 end up having a make out session of sorts. This was laughable, and completely ruined one decent aspect of the story, even if it wasn't that believable.Performances. Robin Dunne looks kinda odd to be playing Sebastian, and he doesn't have the charm to pull it off like Phillippe, he just looked off, and I didn't buy his performance. Sarah Thompson plays the sweet virgin actually pretty decently. She's no Witherspoon, but she holds her own. Amy Adams is about as sexy and downright ruthless as SMG was. Not quite in her class, but definitely very good, and she was often the highlight of the movie for me. Keri Lynn Pratt is basically just trying to do Selma Blair's role in the original, she did OK. Mimi Rogers looks sexy, but that's about it.Bottom line. Cruel Intentions 2 is a pretty poor rehash of the original, that likes to call itself a prequel. The original shouldn't have been touched. Cruel Intentions is an almost classic movie, this is a poor DTV sequel, that is barely worth a look for curiosity's sake.4/10

Because 'cruel' would be the only word in existence to describe the intentions of these film makers. Where do you even begin? In a spout of b*tchiness, I'm going to start with the awful acting of nearly everybody in this movie. Scratch that. Nearly does not belong in that sentence. I can't think of even one character who was portrayed well. Although, in all fairness, it would be nearly impossible to portray these zero dimensional characters in a successful way. Still, the girl who played Katherine (whose name I purposefully don't include - I'm pretending she doesn't exist) remains one of the worst actors I've ever seen, only eclipsed by the guy who played Sebastian. The story was God awful. It attempted to mirror the brilliance that was the first one but failed in so many ways. Pretty much every part of it was pointless - though I will admit (grudgingly) that the plot twist was quite good it its surprise. And the ending was at least slightly humorous. But this film is up there with the worst I've seen. Don't watch it. Just don't. There is absolutely no value in watching it. None. It only takes away the enjoyment of the first.

I watched this movie at 3'o clock in the morning, a time in the day where I am usually very open when it comes to movies. But still I think it wasn't good, this movie wasn't good at all. The reasons why are many.The acting isn't all that good, and time after time situations occurring in it reminded me of a poor 90's Chevy Chase comedy. I mean, come on, like the handcuff situation, and the poker situation amongst the servants... This movie was so obviously based very much on the first one, and thats OK. But if I hadn't seen the first one before seeing this, it would have sucked even worse. Like the ending, it came very suddenly, and I felt like I got no closure what so ever... Sebastian changed very suddenly, and this This movie seems like it was made solely to explain nr 1, and like no time or effort was used on making anything else good. The score is the same as in the first one, and it didn't feel like a movie at all...They should have handled the situations with more style and class, but they didn't, and therefore, this movie turned out bad...