Review of Scream

I love the franchise and I'm always a glass half full kind of guy. So.... I liked it, but there's lots I think could have been done better. Not that I know anything, but as a fan I'd have liked some things:

• One of the killers barely has any screen time. We know barely anything about them. It feels like they added them as one of the killers last minute; and I feel like they could've easily fixed this.

• The new cast are decent, I'm a huge fan of Tara and hope she becomes the final girl if the characters continue. I love how I expected her to be the first kill thanks to clever marketing. My one gripe with the new characters is they're so flippant! Even after Tara almost dies, the next day they're all bantering about it. And it carries on - the girl twin even regularly jokes about people probably being dead. It's not the suspense I want from Scream ha. Again I think this could've been easily fixed but maybe it was intentional? Commentary on Gen Z?

• The legacy characters felt very much like an afterthought. I get it wasn't *their* movie though so maybe this isn't a big deal, but we obviously all love them. Maybe the marketing should have not really had much of them to manage expectations as if they're just cameos. Then everything on top turns out to be a bonus.

• I feel like something could have been done to feel different. At one point I thought one of the killers was going to die halfway through (with Dewey in the hospital), and was like wow this is new/finding out one killer then maybe trying to piece together who the other is. Just something fresh. But nah. I know they're sort of remaking the original, but still.

• Lastly, it felt like not many people were killed....? Like... 3??? Only 2 being proper characters.

And I DID enjoy it, so just to balance it - here's some stuff I loved;

• The twins. I'm chuffed they survived, but maybe more gravitas for the girl twin next time ha.

• Wes Hicks, I enjoyed him. I wish he didn't die. I enjoyed his Mom too - that was prob my fav scene.

• Them coming back to Stu's house from the first movie.

• It's probably a good thing one of the legacies died but I'm still gutted by it ha.

• I was glad Randy's sister was back.

All in all it was good, but I think even as a die hard fan I may be realising that if there's no updating the formula - it might be getting a little stale bah.