Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025)

So the first one made enough money so that we were inevitably going to get a sequel. I still don't know as much about the games as I did when the first one came out. The set up is that the original Fazbar saw a young girl was murdered in 1982 and her spirit got into a marionette and she has developed a hatred of parents because when the girl tried to get adults attention they just dismissed her.The story then moves back to ‘present day’ where Mike and Abby are trying to move on after the events of the first film with Abby missing her ‘friends’.  

This is nowhere near as good as the first one. I think that comes across as Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 Part 1 because this doesn't feel like it has got a satisfactory conclusion. The line about them coming back suggests we are getting a third film and then Vanessa getting possessed shows that her story isn’t over. Other issues with the film include the ‘climax’ where Mike uses the music box to release Abby from the marionette’s power seemed a bit underwhelming as when this sort of thing happens elsewhere it would be a bigger deal and here it seems to end in about 4 seconds. They also make a big deal out of Skeet Ulrich being in the film with his connection to the Scream films and would it be a possible reunion with Matthew Lillard but sadly that didn’t happen because of Ulrich’s blink and you miss is cameo and also the fact that Lillard is in about three scenes and they are all flashbacks. Although in the mid-credits scene his costume from the first one is seen and apparently there was more post credits stuff which suggests that Ulrich might feature more in the next one.

There are some good things about this film. I think that Piper Rubio is quite likeable as Abby and she manages to liking and being friends with the killer robots seem like a sensible thing. It just would be nice if she were given more to do because I found Abby more of an interesting character than Vanessa. Wayne Knight was great as Mr. Berg who is a teacher that doesn't seem to like Abby for some reason but his death is quite good. Mckenna Grace is also great in her brief appearance as the presenter of a paranormal series which is starting to appear cliched but she makes the most of her brief time. 

This hasn’t been advertised as the first part of a trilogy or a two parter so things feel like they are starting things off just to be resolved in another film. It’s a bit like Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends. I’m getting a bit fed up with films spilling over into more than its current entry. Definitely a step down from the first one.