Smile low-key unnerved me. So, I had to be in the right head space for Smile 2 as I figured it would also unnerve me.

However, nothing is more unnerving than seeing Christians who wept about The Sound of Freedom and claim “Epstein didn’t kill himself” now argue a 15 year old literal child isn’t actually a child because they sometimes look 18 and therefore trafficking and raping them isn’t actually that bad.

Anyway, all opinions are my own and my opinions are trash. However, I do have actual criteria:

1. Their removal would affect the plot
2. They undergo some change/character development, good or bad
3. We see different sides of their personality
4. They have a plot of their own that doesn’t revolve entirely around a male character. OR
5. They are well-developed within the confines of the role they are written to play 
6. They don’t toss away every traditionally feminine trait in an attempt to be a strong, independent womyn.

Creepy Smiling Kid

• creepy smile
• a kid so creepier
• gets a signed shirt and pic from pop star Skye Riley
• first sign something is off

This is around the time I would’ve started casting out demons in Jesus Name cause not today Satan.

Creepy Smiling Kid Ranting: Skye Riley’s 18th Bottle of AD Water/10

Various Female Backup Dancers

Various Female Backup Dancers Rating: That One Weird Scene That Probably Made You Laugh/10

Old Lady Who Gets Yeeted Off Stage

• outfit is FRESH
• hair on point
• tries to help Skye as she BSODs but gets mistaken for Skye’s dead ex boyfriend
• hopefully not dead (?)
• possibly not even real
  • at least this scene likely didn’t happen the way Skye thinks it does because she was heavily hallucinating at that point

Old Lady Who Gets Yeeted Off Stage Rating: 5/10

Elizabeth Riley

• seems like a stage mom
  • her manager
  • controlling and overbearing
  • Riley is pretty unreliable so it’s hard to tell what was her actual mom and what was her being trolled by the Entity
• where is her husband
• really wants this tour to happen at the detriment of her daughter’s emotional, mental, physical, and likely spiritual health
• short hair, don’t care
• RIP (but not really)
  • the entity pretends to be Skye’s mom and kills her

Elizabeth is what happens when your mom becomes your manager cause you should not mix business with personal life. She seems to somewhat care about Skye, but mostly because she wants Skye’s money.

In reality, Skye should’ve taken a 5 year sabbatical before coming back to the stage because even before the Entity got to her, girly was not ready to be out in public but $$$$$$$$.

Elizabeth Riley Rating: 7.5/10

Gemma

• formerly good friends with Skye as seen by Skye’s lock screen
• really nice hair
• MATCHA and coffee and breakfast biddy
• ride or die
• had a fight with Skye right before her accident
• “you’re a horrible person”
• Skye literally hates her
• not actually Gemma at any point in this movie
• seems like a good friend as even the Entity initially cosplayed her as nice.

Gemma wasn’t there at all at any point in the story, which we discover when (maybe) the real Gemma calls Skye… while she’s in the car with Gemma.

Gemma Rating: 6/10

The Entity

• only a woman could be this patient
• thrives off misery and trauma
• real form is goofy
• On Screen Kill Count
  • Laura
  • Rose
  • Lewis
  • Skye
  • Some Dude in a Parking Lot?
• Off Screen Kill Count
  • Morris’ Brother
  • dude who passed it on to Laura
  • untold others
• Survived
  • Black Guy in Prison
  • (Maybe) Joel (died by other means – RIP)
• probably an allegory for mental illness/depression or Satan
  • seems to genuinely enjoy trolling as seen by it’s freezer box shenanigans
  • preys on those already on their 12th reason
  • enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy

The Entity is kinda like declining mental health that can lead to suicide and other destructive behaviors. Like mental illness, it feels real even though no one else can see it. It slowly isolates those it infects, pushing away anyone who can help (like Morris).

When the Entity fully reveals itself, the host is already so isolated, hopeless, and tired that continuing to fight seems pointless.

I’m not sure if the Entity is supernatural, some weird, mind-reading alien parasite that infects the brain, or a disease released by the USA/China/Russia. But that Morris believes it can be stopped if the hosts “dies” and the fact it seems rather fully aware of what it’s doing kinda make me think it could not be supernatural, but idk.

The Entity Rating: 10/10

Skye Riley

• super famous pop star
  • good singer and dancer
  • puts out some bops
  • play piano
• former (?) drug addict
• WATER (it’s an AD)
• blonde hair, don’t care
• it was all a dream
• trauma haircut
• only lasted like 3 or 4 days
  • she probably crazy before getting possessed
    • was in a bad car accident that killed her toxic bf
    • has injuries from said accident
    • lowkey caused the accident
• maybe could’ve survived if she’d immediately gone with Morris
  • entity needs a living host (supposedly)
  • entity did everything in it’s power to distract her from Morris (I assume only she could see the phone calls) probably cause he was onto something

Skye was the perfect victim due to her wide reach and already fragile state of mind. Much like modern day pop stars, she’s messy, toxic, addicted to drugs, but also talented. It’s clear she enjoys making music but returned too soon due to pressure from her mother and those around her.

Sadly, she stumbles upon Lewis and it’s pretty much all downhill from there.

Skye Riley Rating: 10/10

I thought Smile 2 was going to be a horribly written money grab of a sequel. However, it somehow managed to be decent.

Smile 2 re-introduces us to Joel the Cop with the hots for Dead Therapist Rose from Smile. He possibly breaks the Curse by offing some Hispanic Red Shirts drug dealers waiting for their pumpkin spice frappes but accidentally kills them all nullifying his attempts to pass on the Curse to them.

Fortunately, Lewis the Druggie is looking for his next hit and witnesses these deaths, passing the Entity onto him. Joel is sorry, but not that sorry as he flees at the soonest opportunity (to be fair, other drug dealers are shooting at him). Joel doesn’t make it very far before being hit by a truck that smears his remains in a strange festoon of blood that resembles a smile. This scene aptly sets the tone for the remainder of the movie.

Naomi Scott who played Skye Riley did a great job. Her performance had me feeling insane.

It’ll be interesting to see what Smile 3 does. It would be cool to get a male main character, since Smile, Smile 2, and Laura Doesn’t Sleep are all from female POVs.

Smile 2 Rating: 8.5/10