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| HALLOWEEN: H2O (1998) - R
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by Lew Irwin
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Critics are at odds about whether Halloween: H20 is sufficiently scary to entice a new generation of teenagers to theaters to see it. Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times calls the movie "a work of superior craftsmanship in all aspects. But it is so gory you really do have to brace yourself." On the other hand, Rick Groen, film critic for the Toronto Globe & Mail suggests that the film ought to be renamed Halloween H20'd Down. (In fact, the title is not meant to refer to the chemical formula for water but the fact that the sixth sequel takes place 20 years after the original.) Bob Strauss in the Los Angeles Daily News, however, says that the film is "surprisingly watchable" owing primarily to a "fierce and funny" performance from Jamie Lee Curtis. Lawrence Van Gelder, in the New York Times, though, claims that the latest Halloween is "more marketing trick than moviegoer treat." But Susan Wloszczyna gets off the worst pun to appear in any of the reviews about the movie when she remarks, "This slasher sequel is a slice above many of its ilk." Several reviewers take note of the film's brevity -- only 82 minutes -- with critic Stephen Hunter writing in the Washington Post: "It's as if one day on the set, everybody looked at each other and decided mutually: Enough is enough." |
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