The first movie was an average-at-best slasher that made money because of the "Scream" hype. Producers thought they could make more moolah so they rushed a quickie sequel out to cash in. That's exactly why this pointless and very bad film saw the light of day in the first place. Nobody cared about making a quality horror film. They cared about the profit, and boy does it ever show. Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze, Jr. (the latter possessing the acting range of a piece of tree bark) return from the original film as Julie and Ray. Julie wins a dream Caribbean vacation and drags along a few college friends. Two of three said friends are played by annoying pop singer Brandy and former rapper Mekhi Pfifer. Here we have yet another transparent ploy to bring in more money because the actors happen to be black. Since there weren't any major black characters in the first film, the producers figured introducing more diversity to the cast would prompt even more people to blow their green on this. If only they'd put as much time and effort into the script as they did planning out how to line their pockets.
No real reason to go into plot here because there really isn't one to speak of. Someone in a fisherman outfit wants Julie dead. Did the killer from the first film survive or is it someone else wanting revenge for the death of the killer in the first film? Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out since there's one particular character who's kind-of a tag along the whole time and you wonder what he's even doing there. There's nothing resembling suspense or terror that takes place in this movie, but there's a little violence taken out on a a bunch of incidental supporting actors (including cult horror star Jeffrey Combs, who is wasted) who play hotel staff. Of course these producer folks need to think ahead and spare most of teens in case they need to appear in the sequel. Thankfully this one didn't perform as well as expected, so another sequel wasn't spit out of the machine the next year. It took 8 years and the film (with the incredibly stupid title "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer") went direct-to-video.
No real reason to go into plot here because there really isn't one to speak of. Someone in a fisherman outfit wants Julie dead. Did the killer from the first film survive or is it someone else wanting revenge for the death of the killer in the first film? Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out since there's one particular character who's kind-of a tag along the whole time and you wonder what he's even doing there. There's nothing resembling suspense or terror that takes place in this movie, but there's a little violence taken out on a a bunch of incidental supporting actors (including cult horror star Jeffrey Combs, who is wasted) who play hotel staff. Of course these producer folks need to think ahead and spare most of teens in case they need to appear in the sequel. Thankfully this one didn't perform as well as expected, so another sequel wasn't spit out of the machine the next year. It took 8 years and the film (with the incredibly stupid title "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer") went direct-to-video.