Many movies would shy away from smashing up plastic ketchup-filled dummies, opting instead to avoid the gore. Right on!' Although the film has a very serious atmosphere about it, what with the creepy score and people sincerely freaking out and everything, it still retains a campy humor about it buried beneath its high-budget exterior.
When one of the characters dies when her car's airbag explodes out of nowhere, I blurted 'Yeah! Wow, did they do that? Yeah, they DID do that. Bodies are slammed by trucks, heads are impaled, and limbs fly through the air.
FINAL DESTINATION 2 is a 90 minute or so string of those painful shots, as each character one by one meets an unfortunate death by household appliance. You know that feeling you get when you're watching America's Funniest Home Videos and the oblivious son hits his hapless father in the crotch with an aluminum bat? It gets a quick reaction, like, ooh, I feel your pain man.
