The reason I chose this entry over any of the others (we already reviewed Final Destination 1 last year) is because this is the perfect middle ground for the franchise. It’s a bit reductive of me to say “you know what you’re getting into” with a Final Destination movie, but it’s certainly true at this point in the franchise. They are safe for a reason that is completely unexplained. When the dust settles Wendy, Kevin, and Wendy’s little sister are the only ones that remain of the original group. Without delving too far into the details, there is a showdown at the towns tricentennial in which a horse runs wild and (among other things) impales someone Iwo Jima style. When they finally stumble ass-backwards into the only remaining living people from that night they narrowly save the worse one, while the other gets shot through the skull with a nail gun about 20 times.Īt this point the remaining group knows the stakes, and it’s your standard Final Destination rules: there’s an established order of who dies first, if you get saved death skips you, if death doesn’t skip you then you get fucked real real bad. They reach him in time, but also just sorta stand around watching his head get crushed by a bigass weight system. The duo rush to find the person they have arbitrarily identified as being next in line, a football player named Lewis. The two valley girls have burned alive in tanning beds (yuck), and the pervert “the great thing about high school girls is I keep getting older and they stay the same age” type received a rear cranial lobotomy from a car engine. Alas, so many bad things have already happened. She rushes to find Kevin (Ryan Merriman), Josh’s best friend, and they attempt to reassemble the gang from that night to tell them the news before anything bad happens. Surely this is a sign that her 5 megapixel samsung point-and-click camera has the gift of future-sight. Later, Wendy, stricken with grief at the loss of her complete douche canoe of a boyfriend is flipping through the photos she took of the group that night only to realize that she took one of Josh in which there is a roller coaster in the background and *gasp* it looks vaguely like the car is hitting him in the head. A few moments later as the group is being escorted away by security the roller coaster explodes into a ball of flame somehow, killing everyone on board.
Understandably, Wendy freaks the fuck out and gets everyone in her car thrown off the ride, leaving her boyfriend, Josh, struggling to free himself from another car as the ride departs. As they are boarding Wendy has a severe premonition in which all of the riders are horrifically mangled in a roller coaster crash when the tracks spontaneously disassemble (as roller coaster tracks are want to do). As the night is coming to a close a large group (including everyone who had their picture taken) decide to ride “The Devil’s Flight” roller coaster. She snaps pictures of each of her classmates playing games and standing in line for rides. Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) tags along with her idiot friends while taking photos for the yearbook. WarnerBros.A gaggle of teenagers celebrating a senior night at a carnival dedicate their night to general debauchery (as teenagers are want to do).