{"id":10759,"date":"2008-07-22T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T16:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=10759"},"modified":"2008-07-22T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T16:14:46","slug":"lost-boys-the-tribe-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/22\/lost-boys-the-tribe-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lost-boys-2-01\"<\/a>You know originally there was supposed to be a sequel to \u201cThe Lost Boys\u201d or at least an allusion to one in the original script for Schumacher\u2019s vampire comedy that revealed the origins of Max, and that there were many, many more lost boys and girls out there looking to do his death some justice. Frankly, I would have preferred \u201cThe Lost Girls\u201d a movie I pictured as a vampire thriller with less comedy and an all star cast of young female actresses currently taking Hollywood by storm. That was about six years ago. \u201cLost Boys: The Tribe\u201d is that sequel I wouldn\u2019t have completely wanted, but found reason to anticipate it anyway. I think that there could have been much more added to \u201cThe Tribe\u201d to make it feel fresh and unique.<\/p>\n

The writers were obviously so intent on reminding us that it\u2019s a sequel that they parallel the original\u2019s premise so greatly and lift many of the same scenarios. There\u2019s the older well meaning brother and his young slacker sibling, they\u2019re new residents in Santa Carla, they move in to town to live with a quirky relative who takes them in and gives them room and board, and at one point they even mock the house they\u2019re forced to hole up in. How original. More so, the initial romances between both protagonists and antagonists were incredibly predictable and insanely boring to sit through. Without that one integration we had through Max from the original film, there\u2019s really no reason for these two to target the brother and sister of the story.<\/p>\n

Here the sudden interest in both of them seems to just happen for the sake of keeping the story moving forward and really nothing more. You can throw in all the nods to the original that you want, but writer Hans Rodionoff can never capture that energy and wit of Schumacher\u2019s film and doesn\u2019t even seem to try. Why does Frog seem so intent on killing Nicole and insist he\u2019s only trying to save Chris when he\u2019s experienced the whole sibling vampirism ordeal before? How did he get in to Chris\u2019s house? How did he know Nicole became a vampire? And why in the hell do the vampires turn in to stone and explode in to bits when they die? What happened to simply phasing out or bursting in to flames?<\/p>\n

And what in the name of Zod was the point of the vampires causing trouble at the police station if nothing would come of it? As for Corey Feldman, fun as it may be to have one Frog brother here, it may not be a surprise to see Feldman\u2019s acting generally painful to watch. Feldman is so anxious to recapture his character that he growls his way through his role and sucks all the fun out of this guest appearance, and the heavy lifting of famous one-liners from \u201cThe Lost Boys\u201d are used here ad nauseum with Feldman even providing his famous monologue about the various ways vampires die from exploding, imploding, etc. I really wanted to love \u201cThe Tribe\u201d and I looked forward to it since the first trailer, but it leaves little argument for its quality with such a rushed vapid plot, little to no engaging characters, and an anti-climax that\u2019s horribly abrupt and disappointing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Tribe\u201d has some pretty entertaining notions that make it a sequel while also individuating itself from the original horror film, particularly the energy that\u2019s reclaimed as much as possible to capture that same desolation and futility we saw when first introduced to the beach town. \u201cThe Tribe\u201d is severely flawed but thankfully finds its footing in the final thirty minutes with some rather entertaining vampire carnage that shows off some of what it could have been. I just wish we\u2019d seen more of this in the whole film. All \u201cThe Tribe\u201d accomplishes is reminding you that \u201cThe Lost Boys\u201d is still a better film, and can\u2019t be topped, and while it\u2019s not all that surprising it\u2019s still a disappointment to fans anxious for the storyline to continue. I was really looking forward to a sequel to one of my favorite horror comedies that would honor the original while working in some more explanation on the lost boy vampire tribe. Nothing doing here. It\u2019s mediocre, and mediocre movies are always so much more irritating than bad movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know originally there was supposed to be a sequel to \u201cThe Lost Boys\u201d or at least an allusion to one in the original script for Schumacher\u2019s vampire comedy that revealed the origins of Max, and that there were many, many more lost boys and girls out there looking to do his death some justice. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[219,477,590,703,874,922,1013,1087,1151],"class_list":["post-10759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-l","tag-mystery","tag-romance","tag-sequel","tag-suspense","tag-thriller","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}