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I’m not usually inclined to writing movie reviews, given I tried it on one of my other blogs and failed miserably to write anything interesting. But I just had to put my thoughts down on this just to remember the funny idea if not the movie.

Seen The Forbidden Kingdom as yet? Or have Iron Man, Khuda ke Liye and Race overwhelmed the once raging appetite for Kung-fu flicks. Speaking of which, where have all the Kung-fu lovers gone? Times were when Star Movies ran a series called Friday Fury telecasting the grand works of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan. Now that’s been reduced to a once-in-a-couple-of-years Chan release or (horror of horrors) dubbed versions on Filmy.

Cadet Larvell Jones of Police Academy was an expert at imitating all sorts of noises and one of the series had him do a routine of the typical Hollywood-dubbed Chopsuey flick, delivering chop-chops and complete with un-lip-synced psuedo-Eastern wisdom like,

The snake does not bend its neck. The mongoose will still catch it!

(….or something like that)

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Well I am of the opinion that there is no such thing as a “bad horror film” simply because no matter how cheesy the film’s story-line is, it still manages to give you the “kicks” – be it the entire 90 minutes or every now and then or at times, just for those few spilt seconds.

Frankly speaking, I went for The Grudge 2 without much expectation since the first installment of this series had failed to make an impression on me. However to my surprise (or horror), I found The Grudge 2 to be far more entertaining than its predecessor. Obviously you cannot compare it to the likes of The Ring and countless other Japanese horror remakes but it is also not that lame as stated by most Movie Critics.

Continue reading ‘Review The Grudge Two: Cheap Thrills Will Entertain’