WHERE'D HE GET THOSE F**KIN' PEEPERS?! - review by Paul.

First things first, I liked the first half of Jeepers Creepers… Thought it was brilliant right up until it royally jumped the shark…with the reveal of the creeper as some kind of un-killable winged demon?!? That was really really naff. I was hoping for some kind of spooky serial killer who was collecting body parts for a bit of a jolly, but what I got was some kind of supernatural bullshit. Sure, I was surprised when that happened… but surprised in a bad way. But this actually works for the sequel… going in, you know that the creeper is pretty much unstoppable… so they give the film over to making him a really nasty piece of work… A lot of effort has been put in to trying to give the mute winged murderer some kind of fiendish personality… so he actually taunts his victims a hell of a lot more. There are also some scary scenes that take place in the sunlight, rather than at night. Yep, you sure get to see a lot of the fella this time around.

After a disturbing opening sequence, wherein the creeper masquerades as a scarecrow in order to take flight with the son of a farmer (played by Ray - Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks - Wise) we establish that this is the last day of the creepers 23 day murders spree, taking place right after the events in the first film… And yes - the compressed-gas powered heavy-duty fence post machine (which has one of those lingering "you'll be seeing me later" close-ups) does play a significant part in the action…

Cut to a busload of kids driving through the area (returning from an out of town college football game) … their bus, disabled by the creeper, is left stranded in the middle of nowhere. This is where the fun really begins as he picks off their teachers first, hoisting them into the air (and darkness) and then starts taunting the kids themselves... even pointing out which ones he's going to eat! From here on in, it's a free for all and you have no idea who's going to live and who's going to die. There's some hockum with one of the girls on the bus having psychic visions of the dead kid from the last film.. but that's by the by...

So I guess I'm going on the record here as saying it was good fun… a few jumpy moments and a perfect date movie… if you're fifteen. If you're a more discerning film nerd, you'll still enjoy it - because it's so ludicrous… Worth a fiver of anyone's money…