{"id":38106,"date":"2025-01-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38106"},"modified":"2025-01-03T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T14:18:14","slug":"smile-2-2024-written-directed-by-parker-finn-starring-naomi-scott-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38106","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Smile 2&#8221; (2024) written &amp; directed by Parker Finn; starring Naomi Scott \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z010325zview_smile2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Smile 2 <\/i>(2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Parker Finn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Parker Finn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Naomi Scott, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lukas Gage, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Peter Jacobson, Ra\u00fal Castillo, Roberts Jekabsons, Sean Stolzen, Jon Rua, Christopher Bailey <\/strong>and <strong>Drew Barrymore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>It&#8217;s the last thing you&#8217;ll see.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Skye Riley (Scott) is just days away from her comeback concert.\u00a0 A year ago Skye was in a car crash that killed her boyfriend and left her badly injured.\u00a0 The crash led to public knowledge that Skye was suffering from substance abuse.\u00a0 The path back was long and hard.\u00a0 Now Skye is clean.\u00a0 Everything rides on the upcoming concert.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Skye re-injures her back during rehearsal, she reaches out to an old friend for some painkillers.\u00a0 She sneaks away to her friend&#8217;s apartment.\u00a0 When Skye arrives, her friend appears to be on something.\u00a0 He&#8217;s having terrible hallucinations.\u00a0 Suddenly he stands and smiles at Skye.\u00a0 He picks up a weight and beats himself to death.\u00a0 Skye quickly leaves.\u00a0 She tells no one what she witnessed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the next few days Skye begins to have memory loss and horrible visions.\u00a0 People around Skye worry that she&#8217;s using again.\u00a0 A stranger contacts Skye and describes the episodes she&#8217;s having.\u00a0 He tells her she&#8217;s been cursed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But he has a plan that could save her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Skye thumbs through her cell phone contacts the names include: Adele, Beyonc\u00e9 and Lady Gaga.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Naomi Scott is excellent as the famous pop star on the comeback trail.\u00a0 Naomi Scott co-wrote several of Skye Riley&#8217;s songs with producer Alexis Idarose Kesselman.\u00a0 A &#8220;Skye Riley&#8221; mini-album was released in conjunction with the film.<\/p>\n<p>Writer\/director Parker Finn comes up with an ending that I have to applaud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Smile 2 <\/i>(2024) <\/em><\/strong>rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z010325zview_smile2b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smile 2 (2024) Director: Parker Finn Screenplay: Parker Finn Stars: Naomi Scott, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lukas Gage, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Peter Jacobson,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38109,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38106\/revisions\/38109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}