tanya_lamb

I went into this movie very hopeful with the average 7/10 rating that the IMDb website boasted.

From the beginning, the movie had a whimsical, Disney-like feel to it, not the brooding feeling that you'd expect from a horror movie.

The background music played throughout giving it an almost narnia-like quality, but the plot and storyline were old and flat.

There was nothing new about this story. Nothing.

Perhaps if they had created more of an atmosphere of terror, rather than clichéd scary and comedy, it could have worked.

About 10 people (no exaggeration) walked out of the theater before the movie was over. A waste of $10 and two hours of my life that I will never get back.

Having seen and liked the first film, I was very much anticipating Paranormal Activity 2.

People who had seen it had rated it even better than the first and that really got my attention. Rarely is a sequel viewed as better than the original.

I was not disappointed. In fact, as a jaded horror-flick lover I really didn't think I would be scared and boy was I wrong. The feelings, the terror and the believability of the film stayed with me long after the film was over.

In my life, I have experienced paranormal events. Not to the extreme of the film, but weird things nonetheless. The characters in the film were ones that could have been anybody's brother, wife, son, daughter. It hit close to home. Maybe too close.

I've seen my fair share of chick-flicks and I enjoy them, but not this one. I was very disappointed at Jennifer Aniston's performance as she just seemed like, well, Rachel on friends. Can't she play any other roles? The acting was terrible, the writing was terrible and the plot was worse.

Where do I start? The scenes were clichéd and predictable. The scene where a parrot, a tropical bird, was released into the wild in Seattle, Washington really took the cake though.

Oh wait, I guess the scene where the same tropical bird was hanging in a cage in someone's kitchen above their counter was worse.

Who keeps birds in their kitchen where they prepare food? I digress...