The Babysitter: Killer Queen falls into the same camp as most other comedy sequels, being a sack of crap compared to the original. Instead it feels too drawn out without good cause. Even though that wouldn’t have saved this movie, not by a long shot, at least I could have said it was a quick sit. This movie passes the 100 minute mark for no good reason and should have been edited down to about 80 minutes by eliminating the majority of the scenes involving anything to do with the parents on their own. ![]() That is not remotely the case with the sequel as so many scenes could either be cut or are so miserably telegraphed that I’m feeling miles ahead of the joke before they’re actually spoken. Whether it be thematically, comedically, or narratively speaking the script is remarkably smart about what scenes are important while keeping a steady flow of entertainment value throughout. Except that’s not the only revelation that the Bee character has up her sleeve as it turns out that Bee organized this whole ordeal in order to kill off this satanic cult of high schoolers once and for all… but the only way to do that was by initiating new people into the cult herself and then convincing them to kidnap and try to kill Cole while also needing Cole to so happen to fall in love with Phoebe who was also babysat by Bee in the past, which not only did the two lovers need to fall for one another as they actually needed to have sex in the middle of running from crazed murderers in order to taint Cole’s blood because he would no longer be considered an “innocent” anymore as his virginity would be taken away, causing the cult as they drank the blood to finally die… even though they could have easily killed Cole several times over throughout the picture and he was only lucky to have survived at all… Great plan?Įvery time I watch the 2017 movie, I’m blown away by how exceptionally well the screenplay makes use of every minute of the relatively short runtime that it has to work with there is not a single scene wasted as the script ensures to capitalize on every moment to lead towards something fulfilling later on. Samara Weaving returns as Bee at the end of the picture as basically a cameo revealing that she was behind this chaotic night all along that put Cole through hell. ![]() This was a pretty sweet entrance made by Bee. It rubs me the wrong way and makes me irritated to see the filmmakers care so little about the characters they’ve created. Again though, it’s difficult to simply move on so quickly when we’ve already grown so attached to Cole’s previous relationship that was already cute as hell and then killed without mercy. Don’t get me wrong, actress Jenna Ortega as Phoebe the new girl, isn’t bad and she does her best to bring as much personality to the character as possible. Then realized that they still wanted Cole to get with somebody by the end of it, so they randomly wrote in a new girl for him to apparently fall madly in love with. It seems like because the writers were so desperate for a Samara Weaving stand-in, they destroyed a good thing with the Melanie character to get it. To me, this makes no sense because we already started with an emotional connection between the Cole and Melanie character while the script was initially still building on that relationship… then it completely kills it in the blink of an eye while also forcing a brand new romantic subplot with a character that we have no investment in because we know nothing about her other than she’s a stereotypical angst ridden loner. So, not only does the movie turn Cole’s original love interest into the villain, but he also gets a new love interest that we are only introduced to in this very flick. I suppose it’s nitpicking, but it’s another element that simply feels like they’re only back because the filmmakers desperately want to recapture the lightning in a bottle without putting in the work for it. They were brought back to life presumably by the Melanie character, although we don’t actually get to see exactly how, it’s just all of the sudden the old gang literally walks into the scene and announce they’re back and that’s the end of it. ![]() Admittedly, it was nice seeing the original teen cult back at it again trying to kill Cole, it did however feel exceptionally forced and lazy how or even why they’re back. The entire crew still manages to earn a chuckle or two from time to time, mainly the cast from the original film honestly while the newcomers are mostly okay as they aren’t given a whole lot of screen time to become anything too special. Not to say that any of them are bad, because they aren’t bad by any stretch of the imagination. Now to touch on the rest of the psycho teen team, including the originals and the newer players Andrew Bachelor as John, Bella Thorne as Allison, Hana Mae Lee as Sonya, Maximilian Acevedo as Jimmy, and Juilocesar Chavez as Diego.
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