The Reel Rejects - I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (2025) MOVIE REVIEW
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I take myself so unsuriously.
Yeah, that's true.
I'd also want to tell you guys happy for Thursday, presumably.
Or Wild Card Wednesday, whatever day it is.
Happy that day to you guys.
And without further ado, I know what you did last summer.
Indeed.
We're going to do something that we've been doing for a couple months now, which we love,
which is take patron questions.
If you guys didn't know, you're a patron, you can ask us questions.
That's how we do our reviews now.
You guys ask better questions to us than we ask to each other.
So the reviews are going great.
And here we go.
Let's see.
Thanks for pulling this up, Coyette.
All right.
Pierre the Reject.
Hell yeah.
Which possible storylines for another legacy sequel?
Do you think they could take from the post-credit scene?
I'm so glad we waited.
It's been really confusing.
All right.
Well, Possible story.
I mean, we were just kind of spitballing it maybe being, you know, her, the girl who survived,
because obviously she'd want revenge for Ray.
Right.
So maybe that's who?
Or, do we see Ray dead?
I know we saw the harpoon through it.
Through his heart.
Yeah, but we see funeral, body bag.
That's true. Until you see the body like as a dead body.
He saw Madeline get literally hooked and thrown in the water.
That's true.
So that.
I also need to go back where there are any other survivors from two Brandy's movie?
Mackay Fiver didn't make it.
No.
Jack Black didn't make it.
No.
Jack Black would be a great third movie.
Bring Jack Black in a Rasta accent back.
Yeah, but I really.
really do like that now we have our new gen and old gen like i think mixed yeah so the only one that
didn't show up in this movie is ryan philippi ryan philippe yeah but he did did we saw his body
but he also wasn't in the second one right right but he died like we saw his body in the first one
i don't know anymore man because that's why i'd want even if we see a body what's a body what's a body
what's a body assena lee thoughts on the ray killer reveal thank goodness we didn't really
Wow, that would
have sucked. I have mixed
feelings about this. A part of me was
glad that they made this bold
move because I thought it was going to be predictable and very
similar to other legacy slasher sequels like Screen
5, but then as someone who grew up watching
this franchise, I was sad with how
this character who was the final guy in the other
two films changed. It's like making
Dewey become ghost face. Do you guys think
this ruined the franchise?
It definitely was like making Dewey
ghost face, which I was afraid of them doing before.
My thought is that
I'm not as emotionally attached to this franchise
because I didn't grow up on it like I did with Scream.
We've watched them so quickly together.
We just watched them.
Yeah, exactly.
I would have been incensed if they made Dewey Go's face.
I feel less attached to this franchise,
but it does feel like it is a swing
almost for the sake of the most extreme.
And I imagine if I'd grown up on them, I'd be upset.
I actually think it was a really smart choice here, though,
because they didn't make him the killer fish hook man by himself.
He was doing it to try to have.
help a young girl so it's like I think he thought he was doing the right thing so it made a little
more sense and he's been hardened and he stayed in this town and the they forgot us thing actually kind
of I feel like they justified it in a way that on paper I've been like that makes no sense but watching
it I was like that was really cool because I think that it made it way more fun of a reveal that
the older cast and younger cast were working together and the gentrificelation I did like that
he was upset about his town being erased and like his culture is going away like it worked for me
because I am one year into this
franchise, but like your example
of Dewey, I'd be upset. So
I need to settle
into it to see how I feel, but it was a
fun time. I just don't know if it, like,
I don't think it ruined the franchise, but it definitely
took me a back in a way that I'm not sure if it's a positive
or negative. I think that's fair.
Adriana Marie Marie
Marie, aka D,
yeah, baby. I know what you did last summer.
Do you think that they were able to successfully capture
the tone and vibe for the previous two films?
I like that we only call it two films.
Nope, there is no third.
There's no show.
There's two films.
And what do you think about Ray and Julie,
basically hating each other?
Is there anything that wasn't in the script
that you wish had been?
And finally, what are your thoughts
on Sarah Michelle Geller's dream sequence?
Thanks so much, Roxy and Coy.
Can't wait to see more reactions from y'all.
Love from the Central Valley.
Love back to you.
And I will just say this.
We recently did
Cloudy the Chance of Meatballs together
and Cloudy the Chance of Meatballs, too,
which was called something else.
I still know what you did less meatballs.
I still know about your meatballs, exactly.
It's still cloudy from meatballs.
No, it's giving gross.
It does have like it's giving venereal disease.
It's still cloudy because of meatballs.
Piss clear.
My friend called and told me that and be like,
get that check.
You should probably go to seek help.
If it doesn't burn.
But I will say, I know Koi, you're not much of a comment reader.
I am a huge comment reader.
I read everything you guys have to say.
And Koi doesn't for his mental health.
I have no mental health.
And luckily, for me, they,
really have been
viving with the family us together.
Oh, that makes me really happy.
Okay, good.
Yeah, hell yeah.
Boston gang, gang.
There's got to be a Boston movie we haven't seen.
I know.
I've been thinking about that.
Like, if there's even one...
Remember when we thought this franchise was going to be?
We tried to force that so.
We were like, that's New England.
Cape Cod?
That's Gloucester.
Clearly Gloucester.
But like, there's got to be one, and maybe it's even a good one.
But there's got to be a Boston movie.
I know.
I know.
But I'm just, I'm happy that we're no longer on probation and that you guys are
liking us together.
So I'm glad that you want to see more
reactions from us. This is the last of this franchise. So put in different
reactions that you want to see us do in the comments. That is what you were asking
about though, but I just tangent did for a second. Greg and I have been
doing the commentary stuff. Maybe we watch a classic Boston movie together
and comment on it. Like me and you watch the Deppadded. Yeah, so fun. Or the
town. I know immediately those are two. Like Mystic Rivah kit. My favorite
Goodwill Hunting. Viva pitch. Yeah. Oh, Goodwill Hunting. We'll be amazing. We'll just
quote it. We'll just yell quotes at the movie. How you like Dem Apple.
Just the whole time, like, choose to find a sleep.
Write it in the comments, guys.
You recommend stuff.
Okay, but to what you were talking about, I, for the first part, I usually am a lover
or love shipperships.
So I usually am rooting for relationships and not divorces.
However, real life really plays into this one.
Yeah.
And knowing that Sarah Michelle Geller and Freddie Prince, Jr., end up together in real life,
makes me not want to see Freddie Prince Jr.
with Jennifer Love Hewitt as adults.
Like, I don't care that they weren't together because it's like, you know.
Because you know the dream sequence is like, that's his real life.
Right.
And they're so cute together.
So, they're so cute together.
So I'm not sitting here being like, I want to see you get back.
With that.
Yeah, it almost feels like an ex from childhood.
Exactly.
So I kind of was like, I think that that's funny that they're divorced.
Also statistically, like 53% of people get divorced.
And we don't see.
Stop bringing us down to her.
I'm just saying.
You're about to get married.
I know, but I'm going to be part of the 47.
But I do think that...
I'm going to be part of the one in four people who don't get married.
Is it one and four?
I don't see that for you.
I don't see that for you.
That's not going to happen.
My buddy.
You're not married.
It's happening.
You're not in here.
You're in the three out of four.
You just open up your entire spectrum, 20% more people by acknowledging ones.
Yeah, that's true.
You just change.
That's a whole new category.
So I'm just saying, things are changing.
Instead of this being my personal therapy session, which we could do, how did you feel about
that not getting together?
I liked it
because it allowed for a surprise
that it didn't feel like a betrayal of character
The whole movie's about how trauma ruins lives
Right
It would have been very hypocritical
If it ruined everyone's life
Except the couple that's been dealing with it for 30 years
Right
So like it did
It fit the tone of the film
And it wasn't both them
I think it would have been sucked
If they
If Jennifer Love Hewitt had gotten with him
To do the murders
That would have been like
Oh my God
So everybody who had screwed turns bitter
Yeah
So it allowed us to have like
And that would split them up
Like his bitterness
she grew out of it, not grew out of it, but was able to grow from it.
Yes.
So that worked for me.
What about the next part of...
The Sarah Michelle Geller Dream Siemens.
I loved it.
That was one of my favorite scenes.
I thought the writing was fun.
I thought Sarah Michelle Geller was enjoying the handiness that wasn't too out of the tone of the film.
Like, she got to chew scenery, but it wasn't over the top.
I feel like she's such a good actress.
Like, I just love Sarah Michelle Geller.
And it was probably very difficult for them to figure out how the effort we're going to put her in this movie.
Right.
And you've got her husband in it, so it's like we should include her if she wants to play.
She's on.
set visiting it's like no you want to come
be in this movie SMG I will also
say that nothing for nothing
I think that Jennifer love Hugh it looked
amazing too and I think that
nothing against that but Sarah Michelle Geller looks
hotter today than she's ever looked like
yeah she's always I was like struck
I was like god damn I know when she was on screen
I was like people don't talk about
your sexiness enough because like
she was like glowing and a feeling yeah yeah she looked
like a god is coming from about I was just
happy for Freddie Bridger I'm like dude
comes back doesn't let a legacy sequel is married to
this absolute goddess writes like cookbooks now and gets to be the killer yeah he wants to
so checking all the boxes freddie prince so so so fun also a giant nerd and ex schmo yeah he's jean
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Oscar Piaastri sorry to butcher uh if the I know what you did last summer note was a DM
what emoji with the killer used to sign off is there a hook prayer hands
I know you did that summer.
There's got to be a little hook or a fish.
There's got to be a little hook or a fish.
Or is there a bucket hat?
Is there like a raincoat?
Oh, yeah.
There's a raincoat emoji.
No, no, there's a trench coat.
There's a tan trench coat.
That's got it.
That works.
Or boots.
Yeah.
There's a lot of iconography he could use.
That's really.
Yeah, that's really cute.
I would still like to imagine this.
Or like I know what you did last summer.
I'm picturing like a thought bubble.
Yeah.
Like I know.
Sunshine thought bubble.
Fourth of July
Symbol
Fireworks
Yes
That would work
We could tell the whole movie
An emoji
I love all the real questions
That you guys have been asking
But Oscar
Thank you for this
Thank you for this moment
That you gave us
That's me clapping for you
And also for the sing
Gabriel
I know what you did last summer
Who do you think
Was the standout
Amongst the new cast
For me
It's Madeline
I'm already laughing
Over the fact
That I forget his name again
Milo
God did
Not made
Redding's thing video. Milo.
Arias Malin Kleiner, character turned out so far off the usual stereotype.
I assumed at the beginning of the movie.
Only thing I've seen her in was Glass Onion, Batiste's influenced her girlfriend in which she was good.
But she really shined in this one, by far, best part of the movie.
Do you have a number one favorite?
I think she was a highlight.
She is.
She's a great actress.
She's so funny, and, like, she's able to do lines that are impossible.
If you've ever acted, like, some of the dialogue these actors get out and manage to, like...
ground it and make it real and lived in
it's the living in a line thing that people
don't get credit for in horror movies. You have
to also say these things in a way that feels
like someone can emotionally connect to it and you
live through something that would allow you to say like the hot
is implied. The hot is implied. Ball in your eyes
out. Such a good line. Not funny bawling. Really
crying. Yeah. Like, so for me, she's a highlight.
Yeah. I thought Teddy was great. I thought Milo
was great. And once we learned his name, he was
great even before we knew his name, but we definitely didn't
because we did have to believe like he could possibly
be the killer. And I think he played that up really well.
None of them were not good. Yeah.
all great. Even Stevie, who
I think that switch at the end
was really great by her. I got to figure out
the girl that's from what's it called
Finalist Nation. Yes.
I just saw her in something that she was so good.
I like that the girl that ended up being
the killer was like jacked and they showed it
throughout the movie. Like they dressed her in ways that you could
see how like tone she was. She had like abs.
The studio! She's one of the
main girls! Oh, she's the girl in the studio!
I'm going to kill. I'm going to jump.
Clay, I'm going to throw myself.
She's the main, she's the assistant. She's
Yeah, Coy.
She's so good.
Yeah, Coy.
You want to know what I just saw her in?
Standing next to her at the studio,
doing all the press,
went for the studio.
I've got way worse.
That's what I just saw.
I was hanging out with my friend
who's in Final Last Nation
and was hanging out with that girl.
And the studio is my favorite show of the year.
And I didn't know that was a girl in the studio.
So I had no point did I thank her for incredible work
because I was like, you're great in Final Last Nation.
Little I know she's my show of the year.
I'm so sad with us.
I saw her socially and didn't just say,
like what a year you've had I'm so upset with us she's in the two big 90s throwback in the
best show of 2025 you kept saying that I was like no that's not it it's not what I'm thinking of
how is she in the three like giant oh my god wait what's wrong with us we just didn't see it
this is why we didn't play the smote and then when we saw her name at the end I was like no
I just talk to her I know it that's mortified I'm so sorry girl from all this great
work if you're watching this you're amazing she is she's excellent she's so good
chase sue wonders she's so
funny in the studio that I didn't know she was
infeld this nation. What we just did was
disgusting. Yep. That
was disgusting. I'm sorry.
She's also in Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. She's
so good in Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. I think that
we should have our
movie cards taken. I think we should have her on a show and
apologize.
Chase? Chase. On behalf of
Koi, myself. All of
Reject Nation. The devastation
we have caused. The sorrow we feel.
It is indescribable.
and we might not get over it.
Please come on the show.
Come see us.
We'll talk about all your work,
which is ample and bountiful.
Good God.
She was in Bupkus, which I loved, too.
Listen, that was disgusting.
What a career.
On the Rocks.
Wow.
The studio.
I kept saying it to you.
I was like, no, no.
That's not it.
No, no.
I feel like I saw this person in life
and didn't know she was in the show.
I love so.
The, it.
And she's the only one in the studio that I was like,
oh, this is a new face to me
that's killing it amongst these legends.
And I remember consciously thinking like
you're keeping up with legends.
I genuinely want Prepper
to take this and put it at the beginning
so people know eventually
that we come around
to the fact that one of, like,
it's my favorite show of the year.
I know it's one of yours and finalistination.
Which I covered here.
Recently.
And covered bodies,
bodies, bodies here. And we both were in
the room with this person, in the last
two months. In the last, I'm
going to say in the last two weeks. For me,
it was like, but I was while I was watching the studio,
it was while the studio was airing.
A moment of silence.
We're sorry.
Kreper help us.
Kreper help. Let them know that we
finally found out. I love that
Gabriel's question was like, who's your highlight?
And our answer was, oh my God,
she's in everything we love.
was devastating. My highlight is
beta, so just
if I've already jumped off the cliff,
let me call it it. Yep, there it is. I liked
everybody, but I thought that Milo did such a great
job, especially because
we thought it was him. Yeah.
So that's got to be subtle things that he
choices he was making as an actor, too.
I think that those are the
questions. I think that's everything. I think before we get
ourselves on worst trouble, we should get out of here. Let's get out of
here. Any final thoughts on this,
other than oops? Other than
oops. I thought it was a worthy legacy sequel.
I thought it was a really fun time.
You know, if you made it to the end of this video, you guys get to be behind the curtain.
It's fucking Saturday, and I did not want to work today.
And this is my third work thing on a Saturday.
So I was, like, excited because of the movie it was, but I was not excited to come into work.
And within 20 minutes, I was like, it's great.
And that's a testament.
Like, if we were going to do a work on a Saturday, I'm glad it was something fun.
And this was a blast.
Yeah, I'm super with you.
We got that yesterday text of, you guys feel like working on the weekend.
I was like, I'll be a day.
be there. I'm going to say nice things. I'm going to say exclamation points, but I'm going to
feel sad face. So here we are. Yeah, for sure. So I'm glad the movie was at least fun on a
Saturday afternoon. No, stoked to be here. Honestly, good usage of our time. And I'm glad
to finally have all the pieces put together. Great job with this cast. Worthy Legacy. Would
be interested in another one. I would watch. I'll always know what you did last summer.
I stay knowing. And I'd also watch. I stay knowing what you did last summer.
me you would watch that the fastest i can i say it was really called can i say a thing but i think
that title could have worked up until brandy came back at the end now it would be so implied
racist like up until like brandy shows up and they change the title to that and it's suddenly
that's so bad i'm just acknowledging it's so bad let's acknowledge that brandy on the cover i didn't
know i didn't know but branding on the cover and then it says i stay no one i'll always know
Oh, always know what you did last?
Let us know what Boston movies you want us to watch.
All right, let's get out of here.
Later, Rejects.