S. Darko (2009)

the audience applauded

People are voting emotionally.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

This movie can stand on it's own, you don't need to have watched Donnie Darko to watch this movie, or to understand this movie, who really understands Donnie Darko anyway. It's meant to be mysterious. This movie gave me the same fantastic atmospheric feeling of mystique that Donnie Darko did.Can we just for one moment forget that this is supposed to be a sequel to the greatest movie of all time? I think people are way too harsh on the movie. I watched the movie with an open mindset and I tell myself that if I had never seen Donnie Darko I would still really enjoy this movie.I didn't see any obvious flaws or paradoxes while watching, it was just enjoyable and the music was very unique too. So unique that you can't even find that one particular good song from the movie on YouTube. Usually soundtracks are everywhere for free but not this one.It had a lot of parallel action with Donnie Darko, and I appreciate that.Definitely worth the watch if you are an open minded Donnie Darko fan or if you have never watched Donnie Darko and don't intend to. Because you obviously wanna watch Donnie Darko first.

Donnie Darko was a superb film: disturbing, coherent and consistent because of a very good script. If you liked it, you'll have at least curiosity about this sequel, but you'll be disappointed about the result. However, the proposal, with a lower budget and and a more Tarantino or Rodriguez approach and style, keeping away of the teenager comedy genre of DD could be attractive, but it fails.In fact, at the beginning the plot appears to be a road movie like Death Proff -even Thelma and Louis is referenced by the motel owner !! in a funny wink- or movies like that, but despite some little hits of the script it doesn't work good enough as it develops. Many things of the movie are confusing and they don't mix as good as in DD.Anyway, if you like this kind of films or if you loved or were astonished (like me) about DD, you should watch the film. At least because you will laugh in many moments, and who knows, probably this is not a handicap for the film !!. So, no totally bad and unwatchable, but insufficient.

Donnie Darko is one of my favorite movies, that being said, I actually really liked this movie. I think people give it more guff than it deserves. Did there NEED to be a sequel to Donnie Darko? Absolutely not. I don't think this film does the first any justice, but as a stand-alone film, I personally loved it. I liked how they cast the original Samantha Darko to reprise her role. I found it laughable, however, that they cast Ed Westwick from Gossip Girl. He is comically ridiculous. Jackson Rathbone did a good job as the "geek with a dark side". I was also satisfied with Briana Evigan's role of the somewhat bitchy, but ultimately loyal friend. Overall, it's not a perfect movie, but if you look past the wanna-be sequel title it claims, it's NOT as bad as everyone says it is.

A sequel or so called continuation of the original film that should have not been made. Even few of the people that played a part in making this movie was like "why does there need to be a sequel?" and yet they went ahead and made this cheap crappy movie. I just wanted to forget this movie as soon as I finished watching it. This movie is simply unnecessary and doesn't add anything to the "Donnie Darko" film but subtracts it. This one is all over the place but just doesn't seem consistent. It's like the writers wrote down a bunch of scenarios and just decided to mash them all together in a incoherent and in a manner that is not very clever. I think they first tried to get Maggie Gyllenhaal who played Elizabeth Darko to play a part in this movie. But I guess she smartly declined. And now this revolves around Samantha Darko who is Donnie's youngest sister and it takes 7yrs after what happened in the first "Donnie Darko" film. It started out like it might be a watchable flick but as the movie started to progress it got worse and worse. And my gosh the special effects are just freaking awful, even for a straight to DVD movie. Movies like this goes to show that if you don't have a creative or good idea for a sequel, don't go for it! I am just going to forget that this movie ever happened.3/10