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Release Date: March 18th, 2005

Running Time: 1 hr. 51 min.

U.S. Box Office: $75,888,270

Rating: PG-13 for violence/terror, disturbing images, thematic elements, and some language.

Director: Hideo Nakata

Starring: Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole

Critics Reviews: 6 out of 10

Chicago Sun-Times I am not sure I entirely understand the deer. In "The Ring Two," Rachel and her young son Aidan visit a farmer's market. Aidan wanders off and observes some deer that emerge from a nearby forest and stare at him. He stares back. Roger Ebert

Boston Globe There were trippy images. But there was a serious lack of suspense, too, and I need a lot more buildup to people climbing out of television sets than Watts running around and shrieking. But millions of other horror-jonesed moviegoers begged to differ, and now there's a sequel, ''The Ring Two," which, despite being made by Hideo Nakata, who directed the original Japanese movie, is almost worse. Wesley Morris

Filmcritic It's a rule: Horror films always come with sequels. Why the official screenwriter's handbook deems it a necessity is beyond me. Usually, it doesn't really matter -- I mean, who cares if there are 10 sequentially horrible films in the Leprechaun series? We only find it offensive when greedy filmmakers take horror movie royalty like Psycho or The Exorcist and decide to mess with their original formula. The Ring Two, I feared, would become another such victim. David Levine

USA Today Perhaps the filmmakers wanted us to understand that even normally shy, peaceful creatures get thrown off by the presence of the creepy dark-haired girl who caused all the mayhem in the first Ring three years ago. The premise of employing ordinary objects or unlikely subjects to wring scares out of a situation is a fine idea. Still, it makes for a few surprise chuckles. Claudia Puig

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The Ring Two Official site for the sequel to the 2002 horror movie, once again starring Naomi Watts.

The Ring Two Trailer In QuickTime format.