Review – The Birds 2: Land's End

Following the general trend in sequels made decades after popular originals, this is both dumb and largely unrelated to the Hitchcock classic (other than large flocks of angry birds and a brief appearance by Tippi Hedren). It also pretty much goes without saying that the picture is pretty hard on the birds. The family dog, too, though at least he gets a decent funeral (one of the few expressions of compassion for an animal I’ve ever seen in a horror movie). Further, the deadly birds don’t seem to supply enough of a plot to sustain the whole 90 minutes, so as filler we get the lead couple’s lame marital woes. Then the whole thing ends abruptly with nothing but set-up for an as-yet-blissfully-unrealized Birds 3. See if desperate