The sequel to Eli Roth's "Cabin Fever" plays like a horror version of "American Pie". There's a lot of blood, but no attempt whatsoever to scare the audience: the focus is on the gross out - unfortunately for anyone who has to watch even a moment of this movie.Inexplicably, almost without exception, the actors in "Cabin Fever 2" are both uncharismatic and unattractive. They go through the motions of every high-school movie: the main guy is a sensitive dork in love with his childhood crush but she's perilously close to being snatched away by the scheming dork. Meanwhile, main guy's horny, overweight friend is trying to get laid.In this one, he has a surprising success early in the movie, which leads to the first truly disgusting part: a more attractive girl gives him oral sex in the bathroom, and then spits a suspiciously copious amount of white fluid, languidly, into the basin.Ick.There are other weird pairings, like when a marginally more attractive male student hits on an obese girl and has her strip naked for sex in the high school pool - her body starts to bleed and deteriorate upon, ahem, entry.Later, a disgruntled groundsman urinates into the punch that will be served at the high school prom... and as he does so, his stream turns red with blood, until the punch looks like pasta sauce.They students drink it anyway.Do you see what I mean about this movie being a horror version of "American Pie"?That probably could have worked, but the problem is, among other things, the movie has no jokes. It sets up its tired plot, throws the virus from the first movie in amongst it, and then just gives you cliched scenes intermixed with inexplicable revolting moments. At least in "American Pie", the gross-out came with a punchline; here it just goes through the motions, like a backward child who can only do disgusting things to get attention.

Cabin Fever 2 (2009) ** 1/2 (out of 4)High school loser Paul (Rider Strong) ends up at the prom with a girl (Alexi Wasser) he has liked for ages but her jerk boyfriend isn't going to be the biggest trouble of the night. Nope, the polluted water from the first film has made its way into bottles, which are being drank around town so soon more people are falling victim to the deadly virus.Ti West directs this sequel to the Eli Roth movie and I must admit that I found it to be pretty entertaining. If you're looking for a deep character study or some heavy melodrama then it's best to not even bother with this film. If you want a cheap movie with some rather outrageous gore and violence then CABIN FEVER 2 should keep you entertained.Again, if you're looking for anything other than gore it's best to stay away and I'd say this film crosses the line enough to where even some of the hardest horror fans might be looking away from the screen. The gore level is certainly over-the-top and a lot of it is sexual in nature and it was not only gross but very funny too. I'm not going to ruin these types of jokes but there are a couple moments where male and female parts are infected and it will certainly make you jump.The entire film has quite a bit of violence and gore, which will keep horror fans happy. I thought the story dealing with the two teens could have been written better to make it more interesting but we're at least given some good performances. With that said, CABIN FEVER 2 was made simply for the gore and there's plenty of it and plenty of sick humor, which makes it worth watching.

CABIN FEVER 2: SPRING FEVER is one of those appalling little movies that has no originality, no ambition, no way to succeed and it's no surprise that it sat on the shelves for two years before release and the director disowned it. A sequel to Eli Roth's semi-successful yucky horror yarn, it turns out to be a film for the immature, made by the immature, with Roth wisely nowhere in sight.The opening animated credits alerted me to the fact that something was wrong, as if they can't afford to shoot this stuff in live action, then why bother in the first place? Then we move into a typical high school scenario, complete with moronic expletive-filled dialogue that sounds as though it was scribbled on a beermat before being typed up on the computer.Inevitably the only horror in the thing comes from the various gore effects, which are pretty pitiful. In order to counteract this, there's a ton of lowbrow comedy (not my cup of tea), over the top performances and characters, and a handful of truly gross-out moments (such as a fat woman dissolving in a swimming pool) in order to provoke a reaction from the viewer. It's all a mess - a huge mess - and it makes for a crashing bore of a movie.

Have you seen the first cabin fever? It was a nice little movie with a flesh eating bacteria as its main antagonist. Friends go to a cabin, get infected and die gruesomely one by one one. You can easily watch and forget about it in a matter of hours. And why they decided to make a sequel for it, I have no idea. This time it is a whole high school that gets infected on a prom night, and it has its share of vomit inducing moments, it is a movie about an infection that makes your innards to fall out after all. But everything is so cliché and predictable that you can already guess what will happen just by reading the "it now happens in a high school" line. Protagonists aren't likable, comedy relief isn't funny. After a while you realize you only watch it to see the gruesome death scenes, which, considering you have seen the first one, is why you are here after all.