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Comedy had always been a big part of the previous entries, but it never felt overt, coming more from the combination of smart characters and the situation they were placed in. Here though, not only do you have Parker Posey pratfalling like in a Jim Carrey movie, but shoe-horned in cameos from the likes of Kevin Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob hint at a level of smug-satisfaction, likely driven by studio honchos The Weinstein’s basking in the reflected glory of their golden goose and their place atop the Hollywood hills...granted these are almost blink and you'll miss ‘em, but it’s enough to show that Craven (or possibly new writer Ehren Krueger, replacing franchise stalwart Kevin Williamson) had completely changed his mind set to the prominent tone of the whole film. We then go and are reintroduced to Sidney Prescott (NEVE CAMPBELL) attending college and trying to put the events from the year before behind her. When the killings from the night prior are reported, her world begins to fall apart piece by piece once again as she confides in Randy (JAMIE KENNEDY) who is in denial that the murders has anything to do with them. Not before long, the press has swarmed the college town including Gale Weathers (COURTNEY COX) sporting a new look and with the recently released Cotton Weary (LIEV SCHREIBER) in tow in the hopes to score an exclusive reunion interview which Sidney wants no part of. And wanting no part of Gale is obviously ex-boyfriend Dewey Riley (DAVID ARQUETTE) who is obviously still attracted to Gale but disgusted by her cavalier attitude in covering the story. Q&A with Cast and Crew: Included are What's Your Favorite Scary Movie? and Why Are People So Fascinated By Horror Of course, there’s nothing wrong per se with this film – it very competently inserts Tab A into Slot B in doing what it sets out to do: be the now ubiquitous ‘legacy sequel’ (thanks to The Force Awakens, it’s a carbon copy plot of the original film with original cast members cameoing to hand the baton over to a new, younger cast to continue its fan milking for many more entries to come…). The kills are bloody, the holy trinity of original cast show up and do very little (with the exception of David Arquette who actually is fantastic as a very different Dewey Riley, possibly because he’s actually given a decent amount of screentime (unlike his returning co-stars Neve Campbell and Courtney Cox) and the new young cast are exactly like the old young cast, only with half the charisma and a quarter of the depth.Plot: What’s it about? Video: How does it look? Audio: How does it sound? Supplements: What are the extras? The Bottom Line Plot: What’s it about? The highlight is the Limited Edition Steelbook, which has a graphic design continuity with the one of the same category from the first film. Collectors and completists will love it! The Dolby Vision color grading does not push tones to the extreme, but natural greens are appropriately deep and vibrant, as is a yellow school bus, We reviewed this Region free UK Ultra HD Blu-ray release on a JVC-DLA N5 Ultra HD 4K projector and a Panasonic DP-UB9000 Dolby Vision/HDR10 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player.

Two years have passed since the killings in Woodsboro. We now find the surviving cast members at Windsor College. Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber) has been released from prison and is making the rounds, trying to cash in on his newfound stardom. Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox) has written a best-selling novel, The Woodsboro Murders, which is being adapted into a film – Stab. But as the premiere date approaches, a new wave of murders start to occur on the college campus. Dewey (David Arquette) deduces that it’s a copycat killer, but there might be something a bit more sinister at work. Reuniting with Sidney (Neve Campbell) and Randy (Jamie Kennedy), they try to piece things together and catch the killer. As with the first Scream 4K release, this disc gives us Scream 2 as it always should have looked and shows how far home video has now come. Hopefully gone are the days of artificially manipulating the image to what studios think audiences want to see and if 4K does nothing else but give us film as it simply looked (or as close to as possible in the digital world) in the cinema, then long may it reign supreme in the home video market. A stellar 4K re-release.Paramount releases Scream to the UHD with a very strong 2160p/Dolby Vision UHD release. While I did not review, nor have access to, the Cutting straight to the chase, the new 4K image for Scream 2 is every bit as impressive as that of the 4K release of the first film. Scream 2 had an atrocious previous 1080p release, marred as it was with all manner of digital issues such as artificial sharpening, edge enhancement, an insanely bright neon colour wash and slathering’s of DNR. This new 4K release scrubs all of that away and lets the true filmic image underneath really shine…