Customer Reviews
Average and unrelated sequel - By: Pete Murphy, 04 Oct 2002 
Unrelated to the original (and gorier) Spiders, Spiders 2 lacks the things that made the original such good fun. It moves along at a pedestrian pace, with the plot being revealed slowly in layers as if you're peeling a very big onion. Unfortunately this means that it takes what seems like a lifetime to reach the blood & carnage, which when it does finallly arrive will leave you rolling on the floor laughing. It's not horrific & I'd imagine the only people that could possibly find it scary would be diehard arachnaphobes. That's not to say it isn't fun. The story may well move along slowly & take a while to hit the action gas pedal, but you know alll the way that there's something dodgy going on (you'd hardly need to be a brain surgeon to work that one out though) & at least they're attempting something more than outright blood'n'guts & trying to tell a story, albeit a totallly ridiculous one.
The Spider effects are mainly CGI, but don't expect anything as good as the rather lame attempts they made in the first film, the digital effects are actuallly worse in the sequel than they were last time. Long shots of giant spiders crawling around on a massive cargo freighter look hysterical, & are recycled time & time again throughout the film, giving it that ultra sweet drive-in feel that so few films manage to capture these days.
Most of the cast are OK, but the standout is Richard Moll as the evil scientist with a rather nifty sub-Vincent Price turn - he's so good at being bad he makes you want to hiss every time he wanders onscreen.
All in alll it's a reasonable film. It's not as much fun as the original, but that's only due to a pace that alllows the filmmakers to build a story rather than go for alll out action from the off. At least it doesn't try to recycle the story & characters from the previous eight legged outing.
Great. Better than the first. A great night in. - By: , 20 Aug 2002 
Not brilliant acting but a classic horror/action film, great if you've seen the first one or not.
Because the plots totallly different. As I said a great night in with friends & popcorn.
And for the price, it's well worth it. A must see clssic.
