- Content: “Scattered, Lackluster and Too Occult”
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What You Need To Know:
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 has a scattered, lackluster plot that’s too confusing. It avoids R-rated blood and gore. However, the violence is strong and scary. Also, a brave young girl is murdered, and her ghost wants revenge against the adults who ignored her warnings. Finally, FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 has a strong mixed pagan worldview with moral and occult content. There are malevolent and benevolent ghost characters who can possess other characters and control mechanical objects, plus good and evil family members. FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 is excessive, unacceptable and disappointing as a piece of filmed entertainment.
Content:
Strong mixed pagan worldview with strong occult content combined with some positive moral content, and there’s brief talk of Heaven;
Eight or nine obscenities (including two “s” words);
Strong scary violence includes costumed man with a knife comes after young girl, and it’s revealed she has some fatal stab wounds on the back of her shirt, a robot grabs a man’s head and starts to squeeze it until it bursts (camera cuts away), robots attack a man fallen into dark water in an amusement park ride and blood swirls in the water after they drag him down, scary haunted animatronic creatures chase and attack a woman driving a car, father attacks daughter in nightmare sequences, man is shot and falls off a stairway, girl has fatal bloody knife wounds on her back, scary characters menace and threaten other characters;
No sex;
No nudity;
No alcohol;
No smoking or drugs; and,
Ghost of little girl possesses animatronic device and wants murderous revenge.
More Detail:
The movie opens in 1982 at a Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria. A young shy girl named Charlotte likes to watch the beginning of the animatronic show where a tall black and white marionette appears from beneath the stage. A blonde girl named Vanessa who’s Charlotte’s age tries to befriend Charlotte, but Charlotte notices the restaurant founder, William Afton, dressed in a yellow rabbit suit, lure a young boy backstage.
Charlotte tries to alert the adults in the pizza parlor about Afton snatching the boy, but they pay no attention. So, she goes backstage herself and finds Afton getting ready to kill the boy. Charotte tries to carry the boy back to the main stage to freedom, but Afton chases her and manages to stab her in the back. The boy escapes through the trap door, but Charlotte falls through the door, where the marionette pops out carrying her dead body.
Twenty years later, it’s been one year since an adult Vanessa helped Mike, the former security guard, and his younger sister, Abby, stop Afton, who turned out to be Vanessa’s abusive father. Afton had kidnapped and murdered at least four children, putting their lifeless bodies into four life-sized, bipedal animatronic animals. Their ghosts were able to control the animatronic suits. Through her drawings, Abby showed the children’s ghosts that Afton had murdered them and was deceiving and manipulating them. So, the ghosts rebelled against Afton’s control and used his bunny suit’s springlock mechanism to crush him to death.
Now, 20 years after Charlotte’s death, Vanessa is having nightmares about her abusive father, Charlotte’s death and the scary animatronic creatures. Meanwhile, Abby longs to return to the abandoned Freddy’s to reconnect with her “friends,” the four children’s ghosts. Abby’s also being bullied by her mean robotics teacher who doesn’t like her robot model of the chicken character at Freddy’s. He refuses to let her be part of an upcoming science fair with his other robotics students
Abby is tired of her brother, Mike’s, failed promise to fix the animatronic bodies of her friends, the four ghost children, at Freddy’s abandoned restaurant. So, she sneaks out of the house to visit them while Mike has a dinner date with Vanessa. After the date, Mik returns home to find a note from Abby that she’s gone to Freddy’s to visit her friends. Mike rushes there to retrieve Abby. He tells her he thinks her friends have gone to Heaven, but will live on in her heart. Mike lets Abby take a small keepsake from Freddy’s, and she chooses a talking toy called a FazTalker.
Eventually, one of Abby’s four friends, the animatronic chicken called Chika, contacts Abby through the FazTalker. Abby rides her bike to Freddy’s where Chika helps her finish her small robot model of Chika for the science fair. However, Abby doesn’t know that Chika is not really her friend, but is a robot being controlled by the Marionette, who’s now possessed by Charlotte’s ghost, who wants revenge on all the adults who ignored her pleas in 1982. A group of three young paranormal investigators have accidentally woken the Marionette by shutting off the music box controlling it. Charlotte now can control other animatronic creatures to do her bidding.
This simplified version of the movie’s plot leaves out many details and some other twists. There are other malevolent animatronic creatures than just the Marionette, for example. In addition, the four ghost children eventually return in similar animatronic forms to help Mike and Abby. Thus, it’s not always clear what’s happening and who’s really good and who’s really bad. One thing’s for sure, however, the mean robotics teacher, played by beloved character actor Wayne Knight, is a very mean guy!
FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 has a scattered, lackluster plot that’s too confusing. It avoids R-rated blood and gore. However, the violence is strong and scary. Also, a brave young girl is murdered and her ghost wants revenge against the adults who ignored her warnings. Finally, FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 has a strong mixed pagan worldview with moral and occult content. There are malevolent and benevolent ghost characters who can possess other characters and control mechanical objects, plus good and evil family members.
