Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4: The Next Generation
[DVD Info]

On May 22, 1996, four teens, Heather (Lisa Newmyer), Barry (Tyler Cone), Jenny (Renee Zellweger), and Sean (John Harrison) are going to their high school prom. When Heather catches Barry kissing another girl, she take off in his car and peels out but Barry jumps in at the last minute. As the couple argues, Jenny and Sean pop their heads out of the back seat. Heather pulls off into a side road and as they’re looking for a place to turn around they get into an accident. The guy in the other car is knocked unconscious. As Heather, Barry, and Jenny go looking for help, Sean waits with the unconscious driver. A man in a truck, Vilmer (Matthew McConaughey) comes by and tells Sean the boy is dead. When Sean argues that he’s just unconscious, he grabs the boy’s neck and snaps it. Then Vilmer tells Sean he’s going to kill him and proceeds to run over him multiple times. After finding help, Heather and Barry split off from Jenny to find a ride back to where their car is. They stumble across a house and they’re taken away by Leatherface (Robert Jacks), while Jenny is picked up by Vilmer. Now everyone must fight to survive as a new family tries to kill them.

Not having sex gives men cancer.
Up is rarely better than down when being chased by a man with a chainsaw.
Cattle prods are not to be used out of spite.
Do not trust men when three nipples...on their STOMACH!

"It's his job to kill people?!" ~Jenny in response to Darla telling her about Vilmer's stressful job.

Mmm...see below.

Alright, well…it started out pretty decent. They established some characters and the story went quickly. It was all well and good until about 1 hour and 15 minutes through. It just wouldn’t end! Jenny escapes, like, a million times and she keeps getting caught and brought back to the house. And you’d think…by the 4th movie…they’d have some sort of method to these people’s madness. Well…I guess they explained it. It sounded pretty shoddy to me. Vilmer is the “person behind the scenes” that does all the stuff there are conspiracies about?! WTF?? They said that Kennedy wasn’t killed by the government and whatnot…but this backwoods hick with an electronic leg????? Is it just me…or is that the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard. And what was up with the guy with the 3 pierced nipples on his stomach (although, that actor lived with my friend for a little bit)? Also…this movie…was almost exactly like the first one. All (well most) the chase scenes involving the main girl were identical. She jumps out the window, falls into the trash, and goes to the 3rd person who you don’t expect to be involved’s place, all the same. I also didn’t understand the random close up of Darla’s nipple. It was totally unrelated to the story. Although, I found Darla (Tonie Perenski) really amusing. She said some of the stupidest things. It was great. Especially ‘cause she’s so nice to Jenny and is very nurturing even though horrible things are happening to her. Ah well. I usually really like Renee Zellweger but…with all these things happening…she seemed really unconcerned about it all. Especially when her friend is lit of fire. Oh well. After watching all the flicks in the TCM series…I’d have to say...stick with the original. It’s the creepiest and the best one. I really wanted to hate this one because it was lame and went on way too long…but there were parts that thoroughly amused me…so...because of this, the jury gives this flick:

(Irritated)

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