Halloween 2/Halloween 3

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Summary: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING
Review: A big mistake a halloween movie without michael Myers. Michael Myers is the halloween movie without him there is no halloween movie. I thought I was gonna break the tv it made me so mad It was a terrible movie to.

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Summary: 3 for part 2/ZILCH for the godawfull part 3
Review: is it any wonder the studios are giving part 3 the piggyback treatment?those responsible for the mistake that is part 3 had to have known this was doomed.many other reviewers were right by saying this garbage should have been a completely separate piece of junk unto itself.immediately after part 3 the franchise as a whole went head first into toilet bowl.i can only shake my head in utter disbelief that john carpenter would destroy such an almost unmuckupable franchise.has he done anything were a darn since?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

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Summary: Watch part 2, skip part 3
Review: Ok, This DVD averages out to 3 stars for putting "Halloween 2," one of the most impressive horror sequels ever made, in the same package with "Halloween 3: Season of the Witch," the sequel that's not only bad because it's a non-sequitor, but because it's a load of tripe. The Halloween franchise maintained a steady pace with the second film, and then did a complete nose-dive with the third.

When I reviewed "Tomie: Replay," I used "Halloween 3" as the penultimate example of a horror sequel gone horribly wrong. So I decided the only way to prove my point was to review Halloween 3 and explain why I felt this way. First of all, there is no Michael Myers. Our "story" centers around two people, a man and a woman, who are out to uncover a conspiracy that a company selling children's Halloween masks is really trying to make spiders, snakes, and other icky stuff crawl out of the kids' heads at exactly the same moment. For reasons far to ridiculous to recount here, the masks will cause this to happen on Halloween night when children all over the country will gather around their TV sets for something called "The Big Giveaway."

Now, I know that this movie is trying to make some sort of crappy point about commercialism. But why would a corporation even want to do that? They got theirs when they convinced the kids' parents to shell out the money for those trendy masks. Is it some sort of human sacrifice for the God of Corporate Greed? I suppose it could be seen as a lousy metaphor for the negative influence of advertising on children, but they couldn't come up with anything better than this?

Now what really burns me up about the anti-commercialism message is not the fact that it's a poorly constructed metaphor, but the blatant hypocrisy of it all. This is called "Halloween 3" because it takes place on Halloween. Clever, huh? Well, "Halloween 3" is not just a clever title. They used that title for this movie so that all the idiots who loved the first two Halloween movies would rush out and see this craptacular travesty of cinema, believing it to be the next in the series. (Idiots like myself, perhaps?) Exploiting the success of a popular horror franchise with a third-rate sequel? That is commercialism at its worst!

At one point, the man and the woman have to check into a hotel. The man says something that I will roughly translate here as, "Hey, we're both pretty unattractive, and there is zero sexual tension between us, and more importantly, we have to get moving to stop all those kids from having spiders and snakes crawl out of their heads. But since you're a woman, and I'm a man, and we're in a hotel room right now, can we have sex?" Now if this were a REAL Halloween movie, Michael Myers would come and kill them. As we know from watching the first Halloween film, the source of Micheal's angst is that he knows that sex must only be enjoyed within the confines of the sacred bond of holy matrimony. And these two tramps are breaking his rule! But alas, this is a faux Halloween movie, and you will find yourself hoping against hope that these two one-dimensional characters will be killed off.

It occurs to me that Micheal's mask is so much cooler than any of the dorky masks the kids are wearing. If they tried to make this an anti-commercialism movie by mass marketing his image as a serial killer, and selling kids masks that looked like HIS, it might be a little more interesting. But of course, that is like saying that watching paint dry on an artist's canvas is more interesting than watching paint dry on a white wall.

A lot of people think this movie sucks because Michael Myers isn't in it. But if this garbage never purported to be a Halloween movie in the first place, and was released under a completely different title, it would still suck! (What title would that be anyway? "Season of the Witch"? I'm not exactly sure where that came from. I know it's a rather odd George Romero movie about a bored housewife, but this movie doesn't have anything to do with that movie, or witches, for that matter.) "Halloween 3: Season of the Witch" is bad for reasons that having nothing to do with how good the Halloween series was before this godawful entry.

If you buy this DVD, watch part 2, but forget about part 3. Pretend it's not even on the disc. Don't worry about watching part 4 later, and not knowing what's going on, because it won't matter. If you rent the Halloween movies, just pretend that the video store clerks left a crappy, unrelated movie in between part 2 and the next in the series, which they did. I am doing everything I can to repress the memory of this movie, but you can stop it before it starts.

Halloween 2 -- 5 stars. Probably not as good as the first, but as a sequel, it had everything stacked against it, and it still managed to deliver.

Halloween 3: Season of the Witch -- 1 star. Not even bad in that good way. No malevolent children, no gory fun, no relation to the rest of the series. Just don't watch it.

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Summary: Halloween 2 and Halloween 3, TOGETHER!?!
Review: Well all I have to say is that Halloween 2 is a very decent sequal to Halloween considering that is takes place right after the it. The movie is cool how Michael Myers will stop at nothing to get to Laurie Strode, all the death are pretty cool and the ending rocks!! with that explosion. The only thing that bothers me is how did Dr. Loomis survive the explosion to be in part 4, and how is it that Michael Myers is able to drive if his eyes were shot out. O.K. enough about that now a review on Halloween 3, it's not the worst movie out there but it does how a flaw not having Michael Myers in it, the movie was basically about this Irish dude whose the leader of this company called "Silver Shamrock", is making these killer masks. So when kids where them when they're seeing the "Silver Shamrock" commercial, their heads all melt and bugs and snakes crawl out of them. The movie saving point was the most horrid ending you'd probably ever see. The acting is very decent as well. All in all they probably should've named this movie something else so it would'nt have messed up with the Halloween movie's chronological order because "Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers" was more like the third installment. While I'm on the subject all of the Halloween movies are Halloween 1,2,3,4(The Return of Michael Myers),5(The Revenge of Michael Myers),6(The Curse of Michael Myers),7(H20),and 8(Resurrection)are very good and suspensful.