Nevan Badgley

This movie is so awesome and really ups the game for the first one. The way that Naomi Scott's performance perfectly tethers the smile curse and the reality of the music industry together is genuinely one of the greatest concepts ever. The amount of effort this movie must have taken to be able to encapsulate a popstar (whom has better songs than most singers now) is crazy! Skye Riley is a perfect character that shows anger, passion, sadness, and complete psychosis! My only issue with the movie is that everything they threw at us (after she gets attacked by her dance crew, which is a turning point in the movie, meaning the smile curse has almost gotten complete control of what she sees and does) Everything that happened from then on was mostly a hallucination. It would have been better if she actually did kill her mom (which was actually crazy), but was still able to get the evil Gemma to drive her to the concert. Also, whenever the smile entities started talking (or any horror monsters in general start talking) it puts it at a bit of cheesiness that overall ruins the tone of the trauma that Skye went through. I still can't believe the professionalism of the actors in this film. Any of the scenes the mother was yelling at Skye were perfectly made. Especially, the scene where Lewis goes crazy and bashes his head in with a weight. The suspense was crafted perfectly, alongside the jump scares that tie into Skye's past with her boyfriend and car accident. Even if this movie had a limited cast, it still makes you see so much more under the skin of the film. This is one of the first films I actually left the theater stunned and not just "Meh, wouldn't see that again." I would actually rather have the smile curse than never see this movie again. I am excited for the time when it is releases on Paramount+. Naomi put so much into this performance. I wish that critically acclaimed award shows actually cared about horror films. The last time a horror movie won a critically acclaimed award was in 1991 for the silence of the lambs. Although it is a classic, I believe the originality, creativity, and the way Smile 2 is crafted, can put up a fight to be able to win some kind of award. 😀