>*"Maybe I couldn't save the world but I could kill some of those shit stains and I could have a whole hell of a lot of fun doin' it."*

Came to see Becky do a gore fest out of some Noble Men proud boys and I got what I wanted. So much entertainment, so much fun, so much blood and so many creative ways to kill a Nazi.

Lulu Wilson does an excellent job once again. Becky talks a lot more in this one and she gets more personality. One thing it does totally differently is there's now a voiceover for Becky's thoughts and some fourth wall breaking (looking at the camera). I was hesitant with it at first but by the end of the movie I think it's a great addition. Elena (Denise Burse) was my favorite new character, they managed to make me care about her in such a short time. The villains are made hateable real fast and Seann William Scott was almost on par with Kevin James from the first. Jill Larson was such a treat she's so creepy.

So much tension, fast-paced, the music is so enthralling, lots of funny one-liners and the kills are so well-made and creative. ***The Wrath of Becky*** is just as good as the first. I could take a whole bunch of these movies. The ending makes me so hyped for the sequel.

While it is satisfying to see the joyful murder of neo nazis, this sequel doesn't really hold up to the first movie. It feels lazy and rushed to cash in while the brand is hot and establishes the foundation of another franchise to milk dry. The first Becky was a person with a family that underwent traumatic changes even before the violence took place in a sort of Kafkaesque twist. This Becky is a watered out Rorschach character (although suggestively leftist rather than crypto fascist) and Jane Wick weapons magician with the motivation to what... Be a free agent killing machine running away from foster homes and working minimum wage jobs?

The innocent girl cum righteous psychopath is not new and is not enough of a device in itself, something that the directors seem to vaguely recognize. The movie tries out various directions but doesn't commit to much any of them. A little bit of splattery ultra violence, a little bit over the top, a little bit of ingenious McGyvery trap making, a little bit of comics reference and another little bit of this and that and the other. It's like a market test for what will stick for the next four movies and the animated series. Even the nursery rhyme from the first movie is repeated as a calling card, except here it makes no sense, to reappear in every single future iteration.

It's almost puzzling how many balls were dropped in this production. There were so many opportunities to give some depth but everything just rolls away, like a committee of writers that discard each others ideas halfway through and settle with the most bland monolith that lacks any kind of tension.

And seriously, [spoiler]fucking *coordinates*[/spoiler] was the best you'd come up with? It would have been better to just keep it a mystery.

It still manages to entertain, so I'll raise it to a six.

_The Wrath of Becky_ continues a solid trend of practical special effect kills, but still tends to be lacking in every other aspect. The sequel isn’t as funny as the filmmakers are wanting it to be and the villains are becoming forgettable cannon fodder that are nothing more than meat bags filled with a fun, red juice Becky is going to paint the walls with. Perhaps most incriminating of all is that _The Wrath of Becky_ and the _Becky_ films as a franchise has a ton of potential that the films simply have yet to tap into.

**Full review:** https://reelrundown.com/movies/the-wrath-of-becky-2023-review-violent-teenage-warfare-entrenched-in-mediocrity

I have not objection to the occasional campy, horror flick but this felt like bad satire of bad satire (if that makes sense). Abrasive, woke cretin Becky, is a super duper fem action hero. She's such a hero she unnecessarily provokes bad guys, leading to her elderly care giver being killed and her dog beaten and abducted.

Unsurprisingly, Becky comes for her dog and revenge. Revenge that' hardly imaginative or even overly convincing, on any level. In short, its low brow stuff, that's only alleviated by Sean William Scott's at times drily amusing performance, as lead baddie.

Sadly, that's nowhere near enough to make up for the painfully bad script generally ghastly, characterisations and brain dead violence.

In summary, basic in most regards. I suspect it might appeal to a marginal demographic, of resentful teenage girls, with low expectations entertainment wise, but beyond that.....??