First off: I like horror movies.  I can't get enough of them really and the latest surge in the genre's popularity has been a Godsend to me.  We've had some good ones to: "Scream" and "Scream 2", "Urban
Legend," "Halloween: H2O", "Phantoms," and "I Know What You Did Last Summer."  It's too bad that with the popularity comes the franchise and with the franchise comes the sub par sequel which brings us to "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer."

Not all sequels are bad...it's just that most horror sequels don't seem to work. They're simple redoes of the original.  "Scream 2" succeeded because both the writer and director (Kevin Williamson and
Wes Craven respectively) were back on board.  You couldn't go wrong really.  Williamson wrote the first "Summer" movie but he was absent this time around and you can tell.  Screenwriter Tey Calloway tries
hard but things just aren't gelling.  Maybe it's because Danny Cannon is the director and he made the stinker "Judge Dredd".  I don't know.  Or maybe it's because a killer fisherman is no Freddy, Jason, or Michael Myers and seeing him come back from the dead just isn't believable or scary.  I don't know.  The first "Summer" was scary and had me and the audience jumping at several parts but here I didn't even flinch.  The film just plods along in a by the numbers fashion and, despite a little surprise at the end (when we find out who the killer is blah, blah, blah), we're not all that thrilled or shocked or scared.  Been there, done that...a hundred times over.

The only real perk is Jennifer Love Hewitt.  She was good in part one and she's good here.  I'm sure she has a long career ahead of her even when she outgrows her "Scream Queen" image.  However, when they ask her to star in "Okay, I still Really Know What You Did Last Summer" I hope she stays away.

Oh, yes, they leave the door wide-open for another one.  What are these fishermen putting in their Wheaties?

2 out of 10!