Feast II: Sloppy Seconds
- Unrated
(Genius DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: C+
Film: C-
It’s hard
to believe that there was once a time when the horror genre was thriving,
fresh, and full of creative ideas. Over
the past few years though it would seem that it is the most clichéd,
unoriginal, and repetitive as each entry we get seems more like the same old
same old. Feast II: Sloppy Seconds is yet another failure film that adds to
the tally of disappointments. We already
covered the first film on DVD and the now-defunct HD-DVD format. You can read about both as follows:
HD-DVD
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/5241/Feast+-+Unrated+(HD-DVD)
DVD-Video
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/4486/Feast+–+Unrated
The
second installment picks up right where the first film left off as it is the
second day and there are still grotesque flesh-eating monsters lurking about,
this time attacking a nearby town, which is how we get a new cast lineup of
soon-to-be victims. The pitch here is
that this film has more blood and more dead bodies, but has the genre really
been reduced to that? John Gulager
returns in the directing chair and misses the mark yet again. When will the madness end?
Boasting
a 1.85 X 1 anamorphic transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1 mix the DVD release of the
film is far from jaw dropping in either department, but the technical specs are
passable. Dark scenes suffer the worst
from the compression that DVD utilizes for space purposes and the entire films
production is third-rate, so nothing spectacular happening there either. A Blu-ray release could help correct some of
the softness and a lossless audio track would certainly be more engaging, but
enough is enough!
Extras
are plentiful, but fairly meaningless as we get a cast and crew commentary
track, plus a making-of featurette and a behind-the-scenes feature that are
becoming fairly standard in the DVD bonus feature department.
No one
likes sloppy seconds, so avoid at any cost.
- Nate Goss
