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Fresh and Exciting

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

S.Darko It,s Really Confused Me I Think The Director Should Confused Too After See What He Made . Samantha Leave Her Family Because They Don,t Care About Her After Donnie Die, We Don,t See Her Family She Just Travel With Her Friend To Other Town And We See A lot Nonsense Things In It In Every Way You Think You Can,t Find Out What,s That.The Final Scenes It,s Really Complete Hopelessness The Director Do What He Want,s He Can,t In All Way He Can,t Even Make A 2 Minute Movie , He Must Quit His job And Go In Mall.

Donnie Darko was a superb film: disturbing, coherent and consistent because of a very good script. If you liked it, you'll have at least curiosity about this sequel, but you'll be disappointed about the result. However, the proposal, with a lower budget and and a more Tarantino or Rodriguez approach and style, keeping away of the teenager comedy genre of DD could be attractive, but it fails.In fact, at the beginning the plot appears to be a road movie like Death Proff -even Thelma and Louis is referenced by the motel owner !! in a funny wink- or movies like that, but despite some little hits of the script it doesn't work good enough as it develops. Many things of the movie are confusing and they don't mix as good as in DD.Anyway, if you like this kind of films or if you loved or were astonished (like me) about DD, you should watch the film. At least because you will laugh in many moments, and who knows, probably this is not a handicap for the film !!. So, no totally bad and unwatchable, but insufficient.

As most of the other reviews mention, this really is not a spot-on sequel to Donnie Darko. This movie raises far more questions than it answers, and while that's fine, it also leaves so many issues open that you start to wonder if there was even a point at all. Let me go over a few of the points in this movie that genuinely bothered me;~The Second Tangent Universe; In this movie, there are actually 2 Tangent Universes; the main one, and about half way through, another one is thrown in. There was NO point to this whatsoever, and it didn't contribute anything to the story. If anything, it ruined the philosophy that Donnie Darko-style Time Travel is about; Tangent Universes are supposed to be extraordinarily rare. For 2 to happen at the same time is beyond any odds I'd ever believe. Not to mention that the second universe really didn't add anything; it killed off one of the two girls and resolved nothing.~The meteorite; Yeah, that's right. Meteorite. One happens to be the Artifact in the Primary Tangent Universe, and some kid gets his hands on it. He develops rashes, starts acting weird, and at the end apparently just goes insane. And my only real complaint; what in the absolute f***, does this have to do with anything? ~The tesseracts; Now, from what I understand, a tesseract is a fourth- dimensional hypercube, basically a 4D cube. And the fourth dimension, from what I understand, is time. So a bunch of cubes that exist within the fourth dimension showing up in a movie mostly about time travel, not unlikely, but still, nothing about them is ever truly explained. ~Resolution; There is none. At the end, the kid is still locked up, nobody knows where he is (Sam should know if she remembered anything about her time in the Tangent Universe), the people hiding the kid are still living happy ordinary f***ed up lives, and nothing is resolved for anybody, not even in the Tangent Universe. Nothing positive happens at really any point in this movie. And finally, ~Death for the Living Receiver(s); The Living Receiver does not have to die for the Tangent Universe to be closed. There is nowhere that says one has to at all. So I don't get why that bit of information seems left out. Nobody HAS to die at all. But both Living Receivers, knowing full well what's coming ahead, decide to die. No. The job is done the second the Tangent Universe is resolved. Death adds nothing to it.It seems this movie was made without really understanding the original movie. It seems like somebody watched it once, liked it, worked about half of it out for himself, and decided there had to be a sequel, since everything else was getting one. Its only redeeming quality was the fact that the same actress who initially played Sam Darko reprises her role in this one. I would recommend against seeing this one if you were a fan of Donnie Darko.

Let me start by saying, this film is the sequel to the brilliant Donnie Darko but don't make that reason force you to watch this. My advice is to avoid it at all costs.The film tries to be its predecessor but over complicates it, eradicates all sense of emotion and drama and casts actors who just cannot act. So basically the exact opposite to Donnie Darko. Sure that was complicated but the end sewed most things up and also it leaves so much lose that you want to watch it again and again with intrigue. This film however I barely made it through one full viewing. It is seriously bad.Right, it is about Donnie's sister, Samantha (Chase). She is in the first film but is eleven years old. Now she is eighteen and run away from home as her family has dismantled after her brother's death. As her and her mate Corey (Evigan) drive across country their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a desolate town with weird town's folk. In this town lives a homeless Desert Ops veteran who has been having visions of Samantha telling him the world is going to end. When he sees her he tells her this and she begins to think about what this means. Next thing you know Samantha is killed but her mate is given the chance to go back in time and alter it so that she survives the car accident. I'm going to stop there for a second as this was a huge problem in the film. Her friend goes back into time but instead of preventing the car accident, she saves her friend and remains in the car that crashes. If she knows the outcome why doesn't she get out the car or even tell the car to go the other way. To me this was one of many major plot holes.Continuing on, Samantha is now alive and her mate dead but she isn't given the opportunity to save her friends life. We then interweave all the crazy sub-plots that involve a pointless town rebel, who has a brother who went missing along with another child, the town geek falling for Samantha and doing all he can to get with her and a man attempting to sell Christianity to her as well as having a strange relationship with one of the lost boys mother. What the hell! Donnie Darko had sub plots but they all related to the main plot. These ones just don't, and if they do the film could have done without them. Samantha then finds the missing boys although now dead, gets the veteran arrested and then has a date with the geek who seems to turn into an alien during a meteor storm. Then she rewinds to the beginning and decides to go home before this happens again. What a crock of pony. This tries to outdo the original and it really, really, epically fails. It is so bad.Nothing in this film makes any sense. Throughout I was puzzled as to what the hell was going on and at times I was even bored. All the characters are stereotypical and clichéd. They turn up at a desolate town and we have a geek, intact with glasses and high pants, the typical rebel, with sports car and beer and a weird religious nut. We also get a cameo from Elizabeth Berkley from Saved By The Bell, and her role is just pointless.Seriously never, ever, ever consider watching this film. The brilliance of the first one could be tarnished because of this dire sequel. We even get a reimagining of the bunny from the original and in this film it has no place, they have just brought it back to tie something in with the first. The director of the first reiterates that he had nothing to do with this film and has stated he wouldn't work with any of the actors who starred in this. If you haven't seen the first, watch it, you'll be intrigued, but don't bother with this. There is a very good reason it was released straight to DVD.