Candyman 2 - Farewell to the Flesh
starring: Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, William O'Leary, Bill Nunn, Matt Clark
directed by: Bill Condon
directed by: Bill Condon
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Evil comes when you call his name. Round two.Studio: Tcfhe/mgmRelease Date: 09/09/2008Starring: Tony ToddRun time: 91 minutesRating: RDirector: Bill Condon
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A stylish though inferior sequel to its classic predecessor, Bill Condon's Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh deepens our knowledge of what made the murdered Daniel Robitaille turn into the monster that haunts dreams and mirrors. But some of it is still pretty routine: schoolteacher Annie takes a long time to connect her family's plantation-owning past and her own artistic talent with the legend, and is far too ready to say the Candyman's name five times in a mirror to debunk her pupils' fears.
The setting: New Orleans at Carnival time with a disc jockey whimsically reminding us that Carnival is the last farewell to pleasure before the rigors of Lent. Tony Todd, who returns as the Candyman, gives a quiet dignity and sadness to the monstrous specter with a hook for a hand. His life was torn from him and he is mad for vengeance, yet he has an artistic temperament and loved Annie's kinswoman Caroline. Condon captures an attractive elegiac tone in much of this, as well as moments of brutal horror. --Roz Kaveney
Evil comes when you call his name. Round two.Studio: Tcfhe/mgmRelease Date: 09/09/2008Starring: Tony ToddRun time: 91 minutesRating: RDirector: Bill Condon
Amazon.com:
A stylish though inferior sequel to its classic predecessor, Bill Condon's Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh deepens our knowledge of what made the murdered Daniel Robitaille turn into the monster that haunts dreams and mirrors. But some of it is still pretty routine: schoolteacher Annie takes a long time to connect her family's plantation-owning past and her own artistic talent with the legend, and is far too ready to say the Candyman's name five times in a mirror to debunk her pupils' fears.
The setting: New Orleans at Carnival time with a disc jockey whimsically reminding us that Carnival is the last farewell to pleasure before the rigors of Lent. Tony Todd, who returns as the Candyman, gives a quiet dignity and sadness to the monstrous specter with a hook for a hand. His life was torn from him and he is mad for vengeance, yet he has an artistic temperament and loved Annie's kinswoman Caroline. Condon captures an attractive elegiac tone in much of this, as well as moments of brutal horror. --Roz Kaveney
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Average Rating:
Rating: 
- I didnt see anything sweet about candyman.
Candy man is a very good horror flick that no matter how many times you look at it it still frightens you.
Rating: 
- I sensed some anger management issues here
By now you pretty much know what this film is about. The heroine is pretty bland and screams, a lot.She teaches art to poor black kids, this tells us she is a Good Person, she has a shouty brother. The Candyman wants her (and presumably the audience)to feel sorry for him, he does this by jamming a hook through the guts of nice white people. So good luck if you thought this film would win an award for promoting racial harmony.
The film is set in New Orleans so naturally all the cliches are thrown ... Read More
Rating: 
- more stylish than the first
i liked this follow up to the original Candyman movie.i found it
entertaining and the acting is pretty good.i also liked that there was
a back story that fleshed out the title character and gave him some
humanity.i didn't find the movie scary and there wasn't a lot of
gore,so gore hounds will be disappointed.the story itself doesn't have
a lot of depth to it,other than the back story.still the movie goes
along at a good clip,and it's very stylish,more so than the first ... Read More
Rating: - WAYBETTERTHANTHEORIGINAL
SEQUELSAREUSUALLYBAD.NOTINTHISCASE.THISISONESEQUELTHATISBETTERTHANTHEORIGINAL.IFYOULIKEBLOOD,HORROR,ANDGOREGOGETTHISMOVIE.
Rating: - A Sad Story
I agreed with this, at least what I saw. Mainly, making the Candyman character a horror icon along the lines of Freddy or Jason. The scenes of seeing the title character hazed, lynched and left for dead borders on the unwatchable. But unlike Freddy or Jason, this is genuinely terrifying because it is more super realitic. The title name the Candy man implies that the black man who has the lead character was intellectually childlike- a mob hazed and lynched him, stunk honey on him hench the word candy and then ... Read More
- I didnt see anything sweet about candyman.Candy man is a very good horror flick that no matter how many times you look at it it still frightens you.
- I sensed some anger management issues hereBy now you pretty much know what this film is about. The heroine is pretty bland and screams, a lot.She teaches art to poor black kids, this tells us she is a Good Person, she has a shouty brother. The Candyman wants her (and presumably the audience)to feel sorry for him, he does this by jamming a hook through the guts of nice white people. So good luck if you thought this film would win an award for promoting racial harmony.
The film is set in New Orleans so naturally all the cliches are thrown ... Read More
- more stylish than the firsti liked this follow up to the original Candyman movie.i found it
entertaining and the acting is pretty good.i also liked that there was
a back story that fleshed out the title character and gave him some
humanity.i didn't find the movie scary and there wasn't a lot of
gore,so gore hounds will be disappointed.the story itself doesn't have
a lot of depth to it,other than the back story.still the movie goes
along at a good clip,and it's very stylish,more so than the first ... Read More
- WAYBETTERTHANTHEORIGINALSEQUELSAREUSUALLYBAD.NOTINTHISCASE.THISISONESEQUELTHATISBETTERTHANTHEORIGINAL.IFYOULIKEBLOOD,HORROR,ANDGOREGOGETTHISMOVIE.
- A Sad StoryI agreed with this, at least what I saw. Mainly, making the Candyman character a horror icon along the lines of Freddy or Jason. The scenes of seeing the title character hazed, lynched and left for dead borders on the unwatchable. But unlike Freddy or Jason, this is genuinely terrifying because it is more super realitic. The title name the Candy man implies that the black man who has the lead character was intellectually childlike- a mob hazed and lynched him, stunk honey on him hench the word candy and then ... Read More
