A Haunted House
Moviegoers who enjoyed the first Haunted House as pure guilty pleasure viewing may get additional mileage out of the sequel.
A Haunted House 2catches up with Malcolm ( Marlon Wayans ) and Kisha ( Essence Atkins ) from the first pic ; after the demonically - possessed Kisha seemingly dies in a machine accident , Malcolm resolve to leave his extrasensory activity - plagued past behind him and never speak of it again . Cut to a twelvemonth later , he and his newfangled significant other , Megan ( Jaime Pressly ) - along with Megan ’s youngster Becky ( Ashely Rickards ) and Wyatt ( Steele Stebbins ) - are living together and moving into their dreaming house .
However , strange things startle befall around Malcolm once more - be it Megan developing an obsession with a deep boxwood that she found , Wyatt hanging out with a mystifying imaginary friend , or Malcolm discovering a aggregation of bizarre video recording footage in his raw domicile ’s Ionic . Malcolm before long reaches out to others for help - care his sometime pal Father Williams ( Cedric the Entertainer ) - in the hope of solving his supernatural problems once and for all .
What sets the firstA Haunted Houseapart from the most late installments in theScary Moviefranchise ( the parody drollery serial that Wayans and his blood brother Shawn and Keenan Ivory carbon monoxide gas - established ) is that the former in reality has a structure and undertake to parody recent trend in the horror genre , rather than merely string together non - sequitur soda - polish riffs and raunchy prank ( a laScary Movie 5).A Haunted House 2- which , like its predecessor , was directed by Michael Tiddes from a screenplay cobalt - write by Wayans and Rick Alvarez - partly keep on that practice alive , but is mostly just a haphazard rehash , which isreallysaying something in this case .
A Haunted House 2 , like the first movie , imitate the visual tendencies and esthetics of the launch - footage repulsion sub - genre , but here there ’s less mocking of the punk manner and logic gap in the technical expression of film likeParanormal action 2 ; it ’s more just about blandly recreating jibe from those movies , so as to stage unrelated ( and ordinarily halting ) comedic set pieces . In fact , most of theHaunted Housesequel is devoted to poking fun at recent democratic horror moving-picture show alfresco of the bump - footage sub - literary genre - specifically , SinisterandThe Conjuring , as well as the mostly - forgottenThe Possession , oddly enough . Most of the continuation ’s sight gags and comedy sequences are lazily recycled from the firstHaunted House , as well as theScary Movieseries , so they often neglect to produce even the well-fixed of laugh .
Cinematographer David Ortkiese oftentimes roam from even retain the institute - footage scene in this flick , which is something that even the firstHaunted Housemanaged to do . regrettably , hackneyed composition combined with falling off redaction by Tim Mirkovich ( The Devil Inside ) does n’t instill the picture show ’s improvisatory funniness routines or dialogue - centric skit with any vigorous musical rhythm or pulse - they simply plod along , one uninventive raunchy bit or sex joke after another . To be fairish , there ’s the funny piece of comedy that earns a hangdog chortle , but most of those end up being repeated many times over , well past the item where that figurative horse becomes unquestionably dead . Meanwhile , most of the rest of the funniness is either too mean - mettlesome or sexist / racist / homophobic to enjoy as irony , or even simple dumb fun .
Wayans is up to his common tricks here , which means he spend the whole film either just rambling off jokes or urgently attempting , then failing , to prove that he ’s skillful at physical funniness . The rest of the cast is composed of D - list natural endowment either being loud and crude ( which , obviously , make them " funny " ) or playing flat caricatures - be it Gabriel Iglesias ( Magic Mike ) as Malcolm ’s new Latino crony Miguel ; Missi Pyle ( The Artist ) and Hayes MacArthur ( Bachelorette ) riffing on Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson ’s characters fromThe Conjuring ; or Rick Overton as a professor who ( Spoiler ? ) suddenly turns into aBreaking Badpunchline .
moviegoer who relish the firstHaunted Houseas saturated guilty pleasure viewing may get extra gasoline mileage out of the sequel . However , even those folks may set forth to fall back patience quickly , once they realize that this raw installment is for the most part just forged remnant from the first flick , reheat and serve with a different fecundation .
Still , if these Wayans comedies are something you enjoy watch with your friends , it ’s perhaps best to wait until you could see this latest one at home - where you could take as many verbal potshot at its dreadfulness as you like - rather than spending your well - earned money on a theater ticket .
In case you ’re still undecided , here is the trailer forA Haunted House 2 :
Cedric the Entertainer and Marlon Wayans in ‘A Haunted House 2’
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A Haunted House 2is now play in U.S. theaters nationwide . It is 87 minutes long and is Rated R for rude and sexual content , nudity , permeative speech communication , drug use and some violent images .
