Parents' Guide to

Wild Things 2

By Ellen Twadell, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 18+

Dreary sequel full of sex and violence.

Movie R 2004 95 minutes
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What's the Story?

WILD THINGS 2 is a sequel to the 1998 film, and was released directly to video and DVD. The plot centers around a wealthy young woman, Brittney (Susan Ward), a seemingly perfect high school student with a tragic past. When her millionaire stepfather, Niles Dunlap (Tony Denison) is lost in a plane crash, she is orphaned and a legal battle over his estate begins. One of Brittney's classmates, trouble-making Maya (Leila Arcieri), claims to be Dunlap's illegitimate daughter, and a DNA test seems to corroborate this claim. An insurance investigator (Isaiah Washington) smells a rat and starts to delve deeper into the case, finding a web of lies and betrayal. The film devolves into a mess of murders and seductions, until very little is left of the cast and nothing is left of sympathy for the surviving characters.

Is It Any Good?

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Where the original movie was provocative and surprising, the sequel is stale and full of plotless sex and violence. Wild Things 2 tries to follow a noir tradition, but it's too distracted by slow-motion shots of young ladies in bikinis and it lifts plot twists straight from the original. This is not a good movie for families or younger viewers.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about the fact that very few of the characters striving for personal gain through crime actually achieve it. Does crime pay? Is any amount of money worth the repeated betrayals depicted in the film?

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