Take everything that was good about the first one, reverse it, and make a new movie. BAM! The Lost Boys: The Tribe. Great music turns in to terrible music. Clever, funny dialogue turns in to weak, lame jokes. You get the idea.
The Tribe is the first sequel to the original Lost Boys film that for some reason a group of people felt they needed to ruin the legacy of. This went straight to video, and it looks like a film that went straight to video. The only connection this film has with the original is that Corey Feldman reprises his role as Edgar Frog. Also, Haim shows up during the credits for about 2 minutes and is now a vampire. That is not a spoiler and the scene is not relevant to the rest of the movie.
Chris and Nicole Emerson have lost their parents and move to California. Chris was a professional surfer that was kicked off the circuit after having snapped. I assume he repaired himself, because he is remarkably low key for someone who has snapped. Chris is looking for a job as a shaper, and is referred to The Frog Brothers shapers. They go to their trailer and no one answers, so Chris leaves their contact information on the door. Chris eventually meets Shane, also a former surfer and a bit mysterious. He invites Chris to a party. Chris and Nicole attend and Shane is quite fond of Nicole. She unknowingly drinks Shane’s blood and turns in to a half vampire. She slowly displays vampiric characteristics, which prompts a visit from Edgar Frog, vampire hunter and surfboard shaper. Very much like the first film, Edgar must convince Chris that his sister is now (half) undead, and that the head vampire must be killed so that she can return to normal. Then this piece of shit movie wanders on for another hour or so, sure to infuriate the viewer
Cory Feldman is the worst part of the film. He does this, Christian Bale Batman voice the whole time, it’s ridiculous. And he has the worst lines. “Who ordered the steak (stake)?” should never be uttered in a vampire film. Everyone else ranged from marginal to not bad. Kiefer Sutherland’s half brother Angus Sutherland plays Shane, and he is pretty decent. But the cast was not nearly as tight as the first film. It was like a bunch of school kids waiting to spout off their lines autonomous of each other. “The Tribe,” which is just Shane’s vampire gang, is a bunch of idiots. One of them stabs the others because he thinks it’s funny. He doesn’t kill them, he will just stab until an intestine comes out. And they’re all jerks. To each other, to humans, just in general. In the first film, they were a family that was civil to each other. Shane refers to the Tribe as a family, but they act like dicks to each other. It’s like, who wants to be a part of that fucking family?
Another thing that was bothersome was once Nicole was half vampire, that was it. She just hung out with the Tribe the whole time and there really wasn’t any struggle there. She was no longer interested in being a human. In fact, she tried to recruit Chris toward the end of the film. I rather enjoyed the back and forth Michael went through in the first film.
The music was a bunch of garbage, featuring a horrible rendition of “Cry Little Sister.” The song that played during the credits was so weird and bad, it seemed as if I was imagining it due to the late hour.
Also, the film had numerous scenes that were not needed. The entire opening scene had nothing to do with anything. The police chase scene had NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING.
Look, my face hurt from scowling so much at this. Don’t watch it. You will hate it. It is an embarrassment, not only compared to the original, but as a film in general.
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