I loved the way this & the original were both the same " feeding".The end was great as the old man waited with his harpoon/pole puncher in his rocking chair.Waiting for his next awakening.
The car scene & his smile made him a great like Jason or Freddie.The new one is a great idea.23 yr.s for 23 days he feasts.It's about time!!!

We are trapped in a broken down school bus out on East 9. And something is going to kill us if we don't get help out here right away!

Plot finds the demon known as The Creeper (Jonathan Breck), still having a little time left for feeding and harvesting human parts before his 23 year hibernation. A buffet bar of high school kids on a bus returning from a basketball match are now in his sights. But an avenging father played by Ray Wise is willing to take the fight to the monster.

It's a simple as it sounds, really. Creeper picks off various members of the bus, which is the usual array of annoyingly obnoxious teenagers. The tension comes from wondering who is next in line, all while the fractured group (racial/sexuality tensions) try to come up with some sort of plan to survive until help arrives. Logically it's a laughable nightmare and goofs aplenty are within, but there's a neat gory "B" movie vibe about it driving it forward. Plus there's more of Creeper in flying mode and a bad ass Ray Wise to root for.

After the success of the first Jeepers Creepers film it was inevitable that a sequel would follow. With a little sadness we find that this sequel fails to capture the strengths that made the first film a refreshing horror joltathon. But regardless it still has some merits for a fun horror time waster. 6/10

A most prime example of how to refute the “bigger is better” adage. Not because it’s smaller and better, but because it’s bigger and shithouse.

_Final rating: ★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid if possible._

I actually found this one to be on a par with the original; completely different story but, for some reason, the whole "school bus" part of the story made this one just a touch more scary. Maybe it was the idea of being trapped while some otherworldly creature takes its time stalking you and figuring out a way to eventually get to you. The conclusion was great, but the one weakness that I had was the whole issue with "Minxie" and her "premonition"; it was just kind of thrown into the story with ZERO explanation: Was she dreaming during the bus trip? Where, when, and how did she come across "the boy" ( _Darius_ from the first _Jeepers Creepers_ film)? We see her "learning" about The Creeper from "the boy", but there's absolutely no explanation of what happened, etc. That (to me) made for a very annoying hole in the entire plot of this particular film. Like "Scotty" posited during one of his rants, _"One second you're a cheerleader at a ballgame, and the next you're a psychic?!"_ That's essentially how that particular part of this story felt. Apart from that one very glaring weakness, however, I found this one to be a very easy-to-watch film. It had some parts that were a touch more gory than the first film, but even with that, it wasn't very "scary" at all; like the original, it had something of a "creepy" feel to it more than "scary". I know it doesn't say much for a "horror" movie if you can actually laugh while watching it but I have to admit there were a couple scenes that were so goofy that I actually did laugh out loud. I have to shave a couple points off for that reason but it was still a decent movie. In my opinion, however, had they kept that "creepy" feel through the entire movie that was sensed in the opening scenes, this could have gone from being a "good" movie to a "great" horror film. It felt like they tried too hard, though, and somewhere in there the story really got sideways with the turmoil amongst the school kids. It (the turmoil) wasn't "confusing" but it was definitely distracting and took away from the overall creepy feel of the movie. Giving this one a 6.5 but leaning it towards the 7 mark.

***On its final day, the Creeper attacks a school bus full of basketball personnel***

A basketball team and a few cheerleaders are returning home from a game 30 miles south of Bakersfield, California, when their bus is sabotaged in the countryside by some… thing… with wings.

"Jeepers Creepers 2" (2003) is the best of the trilogy with the highlight being the creative and creepy monster, called the Creeper, which is reminiscent of the chief gargoyle in “Gargoyles” (1972), but more demonic and wholly evil. This is basically a confined location horror flick with the setting being the remote golden fields of Southern Cal (and the school bus).

The first film (2001) was hindered by its limited cast while this one tries to make up for it with a whole busload of kids and three school employees (two coaches and a bus driver). But the film generally drops the ball in the female department and, worse, focuses a little too much on shirtless jocks, which can be explained by the writer/director’s orientation (get real). There’s also zero depth; this is a movie about an evil winged creature that attacks a busload of youths and little else. But it’s very well done for what it is.

The film runs 1 hour, 44 minutes and was shot in Southern Cal (Tejon Ranch and Long Beach).

GRADE: B-