Another Halloween movie?

Halloween 2 “Family is forever.”

Mike Myers is back and for once we get to see his face. He has a long ragged beard like a lumberjack. He also makes grunting noises. This is a reimagining so my critiques are slightly out of line but that being said I feel that he was scarier when he was quiet because one didn’t know if he was a demon from hell or really human, the grunting humanizes him and for me, demystifies him.
Myers is after his sister, Angel, who is traumatized by the off screen killing of Michael a year earlier. She is unstable and connected to Michael, who is given a motive for his killings (it’s psychological and again with the humanizing). She also wastes our time with a dream sequence at the beginning of the movie. Dream sequences rarely work and in this instance it DOESN’T. It is suppose to show how messed up the sister is, well Rob Zombie, there are a million QUICKER ways to accomplish that goal, all of which involve not jerking the audience around.
Zombie himself is an okay director but unless you are again, Orson Wells, you are not going to be able to improve this genre past clichés, such as conveniently rainy nights, house in the country, TERRIBLE dialogue, unexplained character motives, etc. (the list goes on).
I will give this movie two props, the ending was unexpected and I’m intrigued by where the movies could go, and the psychological aspect that explains Myers’ desire to kill, while humanizing him (and annoying me), was an interesting idea to pursue.
All and all, if you like slasher movies, you’ll ignore everything I’ve written because you won’t care, and if you don’t like these types of movies, you won’t ignore this because you’ll disregard it because you’ll never be caught dead at this movie.