The Reel Rejects - FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2 (2025) SURPRISED THE CRAP OUT OF US!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

Starting point is 00:00:00 And I rewatch five nights of Freddy's at like four in the morning. This is going to be. I'm ready, man. The cherry on top of a fantastic Christmas. Let's go, baby. Let's just hit play. Let's go. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I want to think Praper for any down these highlights.

Starting point is 00:00:28 You guys have been absolutely incredible. incredible this year thank you dude you guys the real animatronics in the way that you stay consistent and i want to thank all of our royal rejects those are our patrons over there you can get the full reaction watch along or you sync up with your own copy of five nights at freddies too so you get the highlights here patreon time code included you can buy this off prime video or however you wish to get you know the irony of of sitting down and being like i don't know do we want to own this movie and now I think investment well spent. I'm okay

Starting point is 00:01:03 much better owning this month than the other one. Yeah, ironically. And yeah and of course get a tease Rejectnation Shop. That's where I was going with that. Yeah, yeah, sorry. Great way to support the Chanel get crap like this. You can get a discount. You can

Starting point is 00:01:19 appear in on our shooting schedule day in and day out. You can ask questions like the ones that are about to ensue for this. Now normally we just like to give some opinions and then go into the review let's do the questions i say we do the the question because we read we only got two this time we did one shoot earlier that had like so many questions and now we'll have to this has been the wildest day yeah this is the one we were like okay i guess we're going to end it with this but jada rhod's question i think perfectly encapsulates our experience

Starting point is 00:01:53 i watched this in the theaters just a few weeks ago it was just a boring day i wasn't expecting anything good, just wanted to go to the movies and walking out of the theater, I could not believe how much worse my day I got and I'm watching the garbage of a movie. I'm loving this because this is how I thought we might feel. It's been such

Starting point is 00:02:13 a long day. But my question will be, how does it compare to the first one for all? I just couldn't believe how much worse the movie this was compared to the bad first movie. Honestly, I could not disagree more, Jaden. This is going to be the entire review.

Starting point is 00:02:29 this was fun this was a fun time yes are there leaps in logic absolutely um is it like a great film no it's not great however it's spooky it's silly you play a video game because you want to have fun and the last one i think was trying to be this hybrid of like independent horror cinema this is series business and also we brought a bunch of that shit you You Kislov. Yeah, and it didn't really feel like it had like a heartbeat to it. And this one had a heartbeat to it. And it was kind of creepy at times, genuinely.

Starting point is 00:03:09 Characters, I feel like were better. The spooky stuff with the animatronics was better. I just feel like overall, this is, I'm shocked because the critics hated the first movie. Absolutely hated the first movie. And then they hated this one even more. So I thought it would be more of the same, like, dreary, slow tone and pace that the first one was attempting to be. And this one went the complete opposite direction in its approach. I think it's so opposite.

Starting point is 00:03:42 As you watch them back to back, it is a completely different vibe. So I'm surprised by how less people were on, like, what do you want at this point? To me, is exactly what I was hoping they would do. And it seemed like they took notes of what people complained about. and it does seem like one of those things where I understand I thought it would just be a case of you know of similar to the first movie where only the gaming people really liked it because they liked the game and they like the lore and they're just representing that and you like seeing it

Starting point is 00:04:16 translated yeah and to me this was uh I think as just people who don't really know the lore as a film market improvement I would take this one over the first one any fucking day of the week, hands down. I had a really fun time with this one. I was shocked by how good of a time we were having with this one. You know, B, I, same. And certainly, like, this is the kind of movie that even despite critical panning or whatever, like,

Starting point is 00:04:40 I'm always happy to have a, I'm always happy to approach with, like, let's have a good time and see what happens. Definitely. But it is, like, really fun. Like, part of me is now, because of how bad the response was to this, part of me is going, like, all right, what's wrong with me? But, like, at the same time,

Starting point is 00:04:56 I think what's interesting, here is because we do exist at a very, and go with me on this, we exist at a weird convergence point between like, we're kind of critics in a way, because we want, you and I. Yeah. Oh, yeah, definitely. We watch a ton of stuff and we give a lot of opinions out and

Starting point is 00:05:12 yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. So it can be easy to lump people like us in with like, oh, the critics, you don't understand. But at the same time, we are not quite legitimate enough that we are lofty enough that we can't just enjoy tropes that are you know, executed with some gusts.

Starting point is 00:05:28 stow or whatever. And we have submitted for rotten tomatoes and we have shot there. So existing on this borderline of legitimacy is fun because, you know, while yeah, we could acknowledge all the things that like aren't necessarily quote remarkable about a movie like this. Yeah, like the experience of watching this as a horror movie fan as a person for whom like spooky chucky cheese is not a hard sell. Like, yeah, I thought the first movie despite whatever blemishes should have been more fun and enjoyable. And that's how you

Starting point is 00:05:58 probably would invite more people into your lore. And so, yeah, I would wholeheartedly agree that it seems like they took some constructive criticism. Didn't I'm happy to see like completely shed half the stuff they were trying to do. Uh, and you know, this is a movie for which, you know, you get about three quarters of the way in. I was like, okay, I'm, I'm getting to the point where I'm ready to wrap this up. There, they're like things that drag here or there. But like, by and large, uh, yeah, as like a, you know, streamlining of the thing and a broadening of the lore and this whole charlotte character who wants to punish the parents i'm like yeah as a spooky ghost story there's enough motivation and there's a fun that i was having this time in going like

Starting point is 00:06:40 how would these animatronics exactly they get into the taxi cabin and fucking weighs the whole thing down but yeah they're able to sneak up on everybody and like they make such an emphasis on like cyber but somehow they move it like an incredible flash like speed and then sneak up on people I feel like us to wind in the house, but where could that possibly have come from? And that stuff to me where I'm like, okay, logic be damned. This is a choice. And I can give that to the filmmaker, maybe I'm misinterpreting, but I can give that to the filmmakers because I think that it aggressively makes no sense in a way that is fun to me now.

Starting point is 00:07:17 Definitely. Where I'm like, yeah, the fun is going, oh, well, they're supernatural. So they're spooky when they want to be spooky and they're stealthy when they don't want to be seen. and fine and yeah the way that they at least manage from my taste to streamline like you didn't lose Josh Hutcherson you didn't lose the Vanessa character but there's not like an over emphasis

Starting point is 00:07:36 on trying to make this some kind of dramatic heavy you know emotionally fraught thing about like I failed my brother like they're able to keep all that stuff and we got to find out who Michael was because great like I'm excited to see him carry on some of this mantle but but yeah

Starting point is 00:07:52 this this took the weird disjointed like vignette quality the first movie had and I thought it assimilated it into itself better because like that whole thing where you get the nightmare sequence with Vanessa in the middle of the movie I was just about to point up Vanessa like I actually there's

Starting point is 00:08:07 I like Josh Hutcherson as as an actor I'm not like I'm in love with this my character yeah I like watching him and I'm not like in love with this character or rooting for him but in the last one I really enjoy watching him even though I'm like not really connected with the character yeah I really liked Vanessa

Starting point is 00:08:26 yeah i connected with vanessa and they made something so interesting like is it a cliche horror thing sure but it's at least it's something that you can latch on to and she's doing a great job with the performance whoever this uh fucking actor is whose name i can run let's pull up her name she did a great job yeah and and to be tied to the william afton character obviously and to matthew lillard who people love matthew lillard and like that was such a striking sequence and that was a great moment to again there's a lot of stuff happening and obviously this is marionette there's charlotte there's other things but like he's always looming and again to you know it's like you start early on you get the ghost crew going and it still has that thing that i remember from the first movie which is a bunch

Starting point is 00:09:11 of it almost feels like it should be an anthology but it made those elements flow better and i I thought, yeah, shifting the focus more toward Vanessa made sense. I was actually bummed at the end when Mike's like, stay away for us. I know, yeah. And I was like, what the fuck? She went through all that. And there is a part of me that wants to argue like, bro, she just helped save your ass and she did, yeah, choose her path very evidently in front of you.

Starting point is 00:09:37 But at the same time, I'm like, okay, cool, like a bittersweet moment to end off on. And I'm like, I care enough about Mike and Abby now that I'm like, a bummer. But also Vanessa, yeah. It does make sense now that we have taken our emotions out of the main character because she didn't confess up about some of these other victims. Who knows how many other victims. Yeah. And then it led to this whole thing with Abby and putting her life in danger again.

Starting point is 00:10:00 And then she didn't confess up about having a brother. And her brother, yeah, being as he is. I understand. In hindsight, more and more. I'm like, yes, that makes sense. And I love that the writers knew to do that. Because, like, we could be here on a complete opposite end. if he was like, come home with me, babe, I still like you.

Starting point is 00:10:17 No. We were like, come on, man. She has a fucking brother. You didn't tell her about me. And from her perspective, because one of the worst tropes in movies in general is the whole like, why didn't you talk about this? And I thought they, in the confines of this installment of Five Nights of Fridays, I thought Vanessa's struggle in how to process any of this being part of your life and then to

Starting point is 00:10:39 communicate it to anybody else, even though the movie doesn't make a huge deal out of that, there was enough and it felt authentic enough to where I believed the miscommunication. Yeah. And that's a nice little sophistication in a movie that doesn't need to be sophisticated about anything. Like the first movie takes the ethereal quality

Starting point is 00:10:56 where there's no real villain. It's like as a fan, if you're a fan at the game, you know, like eventually William has to come in and Matthew Lillard's obviously playing him. So you know these things. But as a person who doesn't know them, you're like, where, what's how? Who's the villain?

Starting point is 00:11:09 Yeah, what's happening? Yeah, yeah. And this movie, manages to do they make they create a villain in the form of Charlotte they give you something immediate to latch onto as a threat that's rising with a clear plot of

Starting point is 00:11:21 something and that's the one part that I do wish they did more of even as someone who's like defending this shit out of this experience I really do wish they kind of went ham on like some slaughtering in the end they only killed Wayne Knight and I wish they actually

Starting point is 00:11:38 like off some parents and did some like crazy shit then I think it would have just been so much more, I think that would have been way cooler. Even as a PG-13 movie, I think it just would have been way more effective, more horrifying, you would have really seen the dangers and effects and the stakes

Starting point is 00:11:53 of really what's at hand here as opposed to just being a threat. The threat fulfilled would have been way cooler. That being said, you know, it's still fucking had a fun time. Well, yeah, and it's one of those things where if you want to talk about loftiness, I'm like, okay, yeah, I

Starting point is 00:12:09 could have taken a bit more expansion on the theme of she's got all this rage built up this this you know pain over the lack of attention from the parents and the sins of the parents and that's a real big conversation to have in a lot of contexts that I think could have factored more heavily into the present moment if you wanted to make this a deeper film yeah whereas you know I understand the choice to go more toward no like it's very clear that the parents right now are in a sense and they care about their kids and they're not awful and this is a this is a an instance of a childhood trauma gone awry and not let you know not freed and at the same time too the the script was naturally self-aware the direction

Starting point is 00:12:57 was self-aware like i i do actually really want to credit the director of both of these emma tammie because someone i was like oh it's the same director shit it's probably going to feel like just more of the same that didn't work as I was trying to like piece together my preconceived notion was coming and going okay if it's the same director then it's going to be more of the same that probably didn't work and that's probably what bums people out I really respect the fact that they she took notes like she's the director of this film and she executed a film that feels very different while still visually kind of matching because the visual I like the way the I like the shots and stuff and the framing of the first movie quite a bit and he

Starting point is 00:13:38 here it looked really good like it looked good and mood there was a good mood and there's something like palatable about it good lenses and good focus choices and yeah so i was surprised by but more than that like to execute a tone where you could have like the mat pat cameo would work better in this movie yeah yeah right like that tone would work better in here you could have like a weird lawyer to comment to be like if you did a good lawyer like that works in this movie having a character who gets in the water, like, what are kids fucking come here?

Starting point is 00:14:11 You know? Yes, I want to hit, sure. Like, this movie has a self-awareness that I do feel the first one lacked. And then when they were trying to,

Starting point is 00:14:19 it wasn't working as strong. Yeah. This, and without getting completely silly. Yeah. I hope our, like, praise for this,

Starting point is 00:14:27 uh, doesn't, uh, off the people who like love the first movie. And they're like, what do you put it down the front? I'm just saying this, I think it's,

Starting point is 00:14:34 they clearly did something very different intentionally. And I think that different. that difference works quite well. Gotcha. So, yeah, I mean, let's read one more question here from our overall, you know, I think as just a sequel that improves, it actually makes me look forward to a third one and the inclusion of, what we could talk about here. I'm excited for.

Starting point is 00:14:57 Master tea, read this one, John. What did you think about the ending? Specifically, the idea of the old robots being the ones to take down the new robots. well i mean that is actually a very great commentary on the fact that we shouldn't try and create new things we should always you know let the old things carry dominion over all of our we upload through dial-up yes definitely this is just a smoke signal actually you're hallucinating this right now i've been a shared iowaska trip it was a fun ending and the part that i would want to highlight though more is how it does set up like skeet ulrich and um now

Starting point is 00:15:37 Matthew Lillard, and I'm excited about watching them, you know, interact. In a de-aged capacity. I think this is the kind of franchise where you could just make, give them a funky wig so that they look younger. I can throw Jamie Kennedy in there. Yeah. Why not? Neff Campbell's here. Let's get Rose McGowan out here.

Starting point is 00:15:57 Let's get everybody. Timothy Alafone. Who cares? Every sequel. Yeah. Having Skid Olrich's voice there at the end. And if he can interact with Matthew Lillard when he's freaking. I mean, I was saying it the whole movie, but William Afton.

Starting point is 00:16:09 Yeah, but no, spring, spring breakers. Spring trap. Spring trap. Yeah. Yeah, that, that ending got me pretty stoked. I like that. Oh, well, yeah. And I like that the, I like that they went with the whole, because part of it's what, Charlotte's controlling, the marionettes controlling all these things wirelessly and shit like that. So it's more like technological and the old animatronics coming back with the spirits of the kids to save the day. I thought it was a nice thing because it is like the spiritual day. you know, call it whatever device you want, but the spirits of the kids overriding this technological expansion based on one kid's grief, you know, and saving with love.

Starting point is 00:16:47 Good point, because the part of that they have to balance is it's really a ghost story, but you're also showing up for like the animatronic horror movie. And the first movie, I really do feel like primarily just is a ghost story and then they're trying to do the animatronic shit once in a while. This, I think, strikes the balance of being the animatronic horror movie that you show up for

Starting point is 00:17:15 whilst also being truly a ghost story at the end of the day. And it manages to elicit fun from the animatronics and horror from the ghost stuff. Yeah, and I think the J-horror elements, whether intentional or not, make a lot of sense. Hey, just because, like, you know, where do video games come from large, by and large? of where do a lot of, you know, technological advancements come from, but also ghost stories in that tradition are so chilling and striking.

Starting point is 00:17:43 And, you know, the spiritual embodiment, or, you know, when a spirit is imbued onto like a device or a mechanism or something like that, they brought up that idea that reminded me of the grudge that, you know,

Starting point is 00:17:54 someone dies in the grip of some powerful emotion. I thought they were going to, like, maybe alleviate Charlotte's spirit or something by the end, but I guess she's still out there. There was so, I mean, yeah, she took over, um, fucking Vanessa. Yeah, she took over Vanessa. That was the one thing that felt very telegraphed to me.

Starting point is 00:18:09 There's something about that I was like. It's got to, it's, it keeps saying crazy eyes and all this shit. I was like, it seems like you're telegraphing of the plot thing here. I mean, it literally ended exactly how we said it went ahead. Not the Blumhouse created that, but yeah, that gotcha moment, like this is, they are very, very well versed in that. And, yeah, like. And some fun jump scares. It is, yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:30 Oh, yeah, yeah. This, some, there's something about. jump scares in film review community on youtube as well where it's like if there's jump scares knock that's a knock for five nights at freddies you want jump scares that's that's the game yeah like you've got the game is when am i going to get jump scared and are my nerves strong enough to not and there's so many jump scares here that are actually fun i'm like and two yeah they were they were done a fun because that's the thing too as as you know these different horror

Starting point is 00:19:05 movies and especially blockbuster horror navigates the modern landscape and shit we've seen especially in the ghost supernatural movie boom of the past decade or so like the jump scare has been exhausted especially in environments where you're trying to take it a little more seriously and be like we're doing

Starting point is 00:19:21 a crazy oneer bending over backwards to misdirect your eye until we finally pay the shit off 40 minutes later in one shot so yeah like to go back to something simple and effective and they were able to catch me off guard in moments where I wasn't thinking about it. Yeah, I could actually legit jumped like a few times, man. Yeah. Yeah, it's like this is, it's like a workman-like thing. It's like this isn't necessarily like extraordinary when it compared to a lot of other stuff, but also within its own, you know,

Starting point is 00:19:47 rolling of the wheel, this had a lot of spirit and it clearly everybody showed up. This surprised this shit out of me. Yeah, yeah. I fucking recommend it, man. And, uh, I, God, I am so shocked. This is last. I am so shocked by how much we were enjoying ourselves. Yeah, I am too. This was not. We were like making, we were being very sardonic before we started rolling. I felt a thing more apathetic about a movie this year. We literally

Starting point is 00:20:12 watch like stranger things like this like one of the biggest shows of the year and then heated rivalry which is so so emotional dramatic and emotional. So our minds are not in the frame, the mind

Starting point is 00:20:28 frame to like watch some schlocky silly B movie horror flick yeah I've been crying all day and it's like whoa this was so fun yeah I had a great time this was the cherry on top this was a very cathartic day of shooting we fortunately had the just the right shooting schedule this was a great this was to cap off the year it's Friday December 26 as we're shooting yes and this was a fascinating hell yeah if you're here at the end of this review this is a snapshot and thank you for being here thank you for making real rejects what it is and for being on the journey with us because this is surprising a good day yeah this was a great day good day after having

Starting point is 00:21:06 a very rough 40 hours honestly like this is fucking like fun ass shooting day holy crap dude thanks thank you to the five nights team thank you thank you and seriously i know like critic stuff sucks but the fans love this for a reason seldom i remember you you brought a fit you made us fans of the fucking i was empathetic enough to the point where months ago i was like i'll listen to a couple reviews. I don't even remember what those reviews were going into this. I was just like, I just know nobody like this. And it's out now, and I guess we got to do this. And yeah, and I love being taken by surprise. And this was a surprise. Absolutely. What did you guys think? Leave your thoughts in the comments below. We'll see you guys soon. Peace.

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The Reel Rejects - FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2 (2025) SURPRISED THE CRAP OUT OF US!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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