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Tomb Raider II:

||Abram said:|| <strike>4/10</strike> 5.75/10

||Matt said:|| 7/10

||Tanya said:|| 7.5/10

||Norman said:|| 2/10

||Eric said:|| 4/10

||Mark said:|| 2/10

||Abram said:||

I rated it 4/10 because there were tonnes of cliched scenes that I found incredibly hilarious. Just like how I broke out laughing during the italian job at inappropriate moments because it was so over done and hollywood, that how I felt about this.

Classic Moments in the film:
 * Jumping off the building with those flying squirrel suits and how their legs flaps were disconnected when landing.
 * Punching the shark (is this the new jumping the shark?)
 * Monsters that phase through matter
 * Lara's bronze/gold motorbike that matched her outfit as well as he bf's black leather outfit matching is black motorbike with the red panel.
 * Lara manages to have a outfit prepared for every occasion.

I agree with Tanya, it was way better than the first. The first was pretty silly with the stone monkeys and robot fighting.

||Matt said:|| http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/wkp-news-lara25f.html

||Mark said:||

The intial Tomb Raider installment is a guilty pleasure of mine, despite the fact that I'm not a Tomb Raider fan nor an Angelina Joile fan.  The first seemed much more rapid than this one and didn't dwell on scenes that were obviously poorly conceived.  This one looked and felt like an unecessary sequel.  I'm not going to dwell on any particular scene or block of dialogue because it was all so bad.  Ah screw it, I will...  the opening scene...  the wedding was just a poor excuse to add an extra techno song to the soundtrack.  Then things started shaking.  Was it an earthquake?  Was it a volcano?  Who knows, because the next thing we see is some poorly rendered rocks dropping into the ocean....  and then we have Lara blabbing about some ocean currents or something that really had no relevance at all but just gave the producers more oppurtunities to shoot Angelina in her bathing suit.   I really felt dissapointed with this film.  The first one, minus the concluding scenes, was far more polished, and Angelina was hotter in it as well.  The Cradle of Life was so bad it's made me not want to buy the original on DVD.

2/10

PS - Abram observed the "* Monsters that phase through matter."  That bugged me as well.  If they are really SHADOW monsters, how do they work at night?  The moon?  Maybe they'd be less effective during the day.  Also, who the hell put them there?  God?  Pandora?

||Tanya said:||
...Haahahaaha. I just saw this page. Did I really rate it 7.5? It was prolly because I imagined myself being Lara Croft throughout the movie. Damn.