I Know What You Did Last Summer rushed into production following the surprise success of 1996's Scream. It stands as a simpler and sillier film in the slasher genre, contrasting with Scream's intention to innovate. The franchise eventually devolved into lackluster sequels, leading audiences to lose interest. Nostalgia for the 90s has revived interest, with a new installment continuing the familiar formula of kids facing retribution for their wrongdoings. The return of stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. adds nostalgic appeal, even if their characters remain one-dimensional.
Rushed into production after the surprise success of 1996's Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer has forever lived, and suffered, in the same bracket. It's always been a far simpler, straighter, sillier film.
As a franchise, it quickly became the very thing Williamson was poking fun at in the first place with a rubbishy Bahamas-set sequel...People quickly gave up caring what anyone had been up to during any summer on record.
Expectations lowered, there's enough hokey fun to be had here, the familiar formula kids do a bad thing, someone tortures them for it, with a standard 2020s uplift new cast meets old cast.
It means a return for 90s heartthrobs Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr, bringing back one-note characters that were never more than chess pieces but doing it well.
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