I enjoyed the first Smile movie. It had a cool premise, and generally the execution was good too. I purposely didn’t look at any of the reviews before watching Smile 2, so as not to have any bias before watching. I was really disappointed with the sequel, and then bewildered to see the glowing positive reviews of the movie afterward. It made me wonder if I was missing something. Spoiler alerts ahead, so beware.
My biggest problem with the movie is that I had no idea what actually happened. Whereas the first movie had a significant amount of hallucination, Smile 2 was one big hallucination. And what really killed the movie for me was the ending. Although it wasn’t a bad ending in itself, it rendered the entire movie meaningless. Basically nothing that they showed in the movie actually occurred. And I have no idea what took place. It made the movie pointless.
It’s not like the entire movie had nothing good going for it. There were some good scares, some good scenes. My favorite was the part where all of the dancers attacked the main character, but just like the rest of the movie, that likely never happened. You can’t have a movie that is almost entirely a hallucination, but that is what they chose to do here. This is not a movie worth watching, even if I’m in the minority.
