Antichrist or not, the coolest children are the ones who never say a word.It’s been a few years since I saw the original movie, so I don’t recall the fine details, but for the most part this movie stayed remarkably close to the original. So close, in fact, that I have to say I don’t think it needed to be made. Dissapointingly, this movie is also the biggest thing to exploit the date 06-06-06 last June. You’d think Satan himself would’ve made an appearance.
At first I thought the idea of Mia Farrow playing the nanny was hokey, what with her being in Rosemary’s Baby and all, but she did a pretty good job. I believed she was evil. Julia Stiles was okay. Whenever I think of her or Heath Ledger, my mind goes straight to 10 Things I Hate About You. This creeped me out when I noticed in this movie that Stiles is beginning to look like Ledger.
The big differences that I did notice were stupid. First, instead of the baboons in the drive through zoo,which were scary as fuck, we have hissing capuchins and what looks like an animatronic or cg gorrilla trying to break a window. ooh, scary. Secondly, instead of ridint a three wheeler to knock his mom off the balcony, he’s riding a Razor Scooter. I thought they were updating this movie, not setting it back in time eight years.
In a nutshell, see the original. It’s, like, the same.