Justin Lowe of the Hollywood Reporter agreed that the sequel is overly familiar. here's nothing remotely subtle or sly about this lazy movie.' She wrote, ''Insidious: Chapter 2' appears to be the sum of the unusable parts from James Wan's recent haunted house feature 'The Conjuring.' Yes, of course it's the sequel to 2010's 'Insidious,' but it seems cobbled together from outtakes.

USA Today's Claudia Puig also found the film lazy. From its robotic acting to its generic props (enough already with the self-motivated children’s toys), this shoddy sequel, tacked together with the cynicism of a carnival barker, suggests that the director, James Wan, is long overdue for a vacation.'

The New York Times' Jeannette Catsoulis called the film 'a mess from start to finish' and added, ''Insidious: Chapter 2' is the kind of lazy, halfhearted product that gives scary movies a bad name. But after the pleasurable free fall into old-fashioned nightmare artistry that was last summer's 'The Conjuring,' this busy-yet-dull sequel feels like Wan robotically flexing his manipulation of fright-film signposts, an exercise more silly than sinister.' In a review for The Times, Robert Abele wrote that Wan and co-writer Leigh Whannell 'confidently line up their ducks in a row for more of the same half-shocks, fraught wanderings, horror-repurposed items. But according to many film critics, Wan's latest such effort, 'Insidious: Chapter 2,' doesn't have anything new to offer.

Watch Insidious 2 OnlineThe haunted-house genre has proved fruitful for Australian filmmaker James Wan, whose low-budget scarers 'Insidious' and 'The Conjuring' earned generally favorable reviews and combined to gross more than $350 million worldwide.

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