(Warning: There are major spoilers, so don’t read this until you finish watching the movie)
Ryan Moran: In my opinion, The Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 movie has got to be the most FNAF movie we could’ve gotten. Directed by Emma Tammi and written by Scott Cawthon, who is the creator of the games, The Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 movie came out on December 5, 2025.Now, the movie has already stirred up controversy with critics giving it a 12% in rotten tomatoes. However, the audience score is 88%. So, the question is, is the movie any good? That’s a complicated question because it’s hard to say. Now, if you were to go in expecting some Godfather level cinema, then you’re not getting any of that. However, if you go to watch it to see your favorite characters get up to some insane things, then the movie is fine for you. If you are not a Five Nights at Freddy’s fan, you will not like this movie. The movie was ok for me but it does have some issues. The writing is bad, the plot goes all over the place and the movie takes a while before it starts to pick up. However, what I will give it this though, the animatronics look great. Even though they look stiff like a board when moving, at least you can tell they put a lot of effort into making them look as accurate to the games. Now, there is a lot of lore in the movie, so it will be hard to understand for someone who has never seen the games. Anyways, here’s the plot of the movie.
The second movie follows up a year later after the first, Abbie decides to head back to Freddie’s to fix her friends. However, when she goes back, She unknowingly unleashes the Toy and Withered animatronics from the pizzeria from turning the security system off which is what was keeping them from leaving in the first place. So now, the animatronics are running rampant with the Puppet and Micheal Afton controlling all of them. In the end, Michael Schmidt asks for help from the original animatronics from the first movie to fight back against the puppet in a final confrontation. Now, the end credits gives us a hint on what will happen next. By the way, the Living Tombstone does play in the end Credits. Overall, If you don’t like FNAF, then you will not like this movie. As for the fans, it was peak for them. But at the end of the day, we still go to see the movie to see Freddy Fazbear attempt to kill a guy on the big screen. It’s impressive to see a video game franchise go from being a staple online to making it to the big screen with 2 movies attached to them. So you know what, I find that to be great.
Ryan Dicob: In my humble opinion, this movie surpassed the first one in a lot of ways. There were more animatronics, better horror aspects such as jumpscares and deaths and overall a fun experience for a fan. I do have to agree with Ryan here on some factors however. The dialogue was poorly written and corny at times, but eventually it is something you can get used to. I do disagree with Ryan on the writing in terms of plot though, I thought in terms of how the first movie went, this movie’s writing was better. It introduced more lore while being able to balance it with fun easter eggs, some comedy, and fun easter eggs. The appearance of Circus Baby in this film also sets up possibly more movies as the character is not referenced or used in terms of games until the 5th installment. However the character could also appear in the next film. The acting was subpar but good enough to enjoy the film. Audrey Lynn-Marie, who plays Charlotte/Marionette especially kills it in terms of sheer acting skill as she is able to portray such rage in a character really well. That brings me to the opening sequence, one of my highlights of the film. It opens in 1982, 20 years before the events of the second movie take place. Charlotte notices a kid being lured into the backrooms by William Afton wearing the Yellow Rabbit suit. She then looks for the missing kid and eventually saves him but then proceeds to get stabbed by Afton which leads to the main events of the film. From a long time fan’s perspective, while this does differ from the lore of the games, it made me realize the films were their own thing and did not follow game lore, similar to the FNAF books. The ending sequence also was weird but very enjoyable and entertaining. The Animatronics from the first film come back to fight the toy animatronics (They end up winning) in an endgame style fight sequence (You need to watch it to understand, don’t worry there are no portals). In the audience, it was definitely a strange turn of events but it was good to see the old animatronics again. A few critics I have for the film: There were not a lot of withered animatronics. These guys are a key part of the original FNAF 2 game and they only got around 10 minutes of screentime. The dialogue could be improved. The writing in my opinion was fine but the dialogue was messy. It did not flow well and could have been improved for a more engaging movie. The marionette and its possessions. The Marionette possessed 3 characters in the film which is a cool concept, however I would have enjoyed seeing more of the actual puppet in use. The clips we got of it were short and mainly for scare factor so I hope to see more of Marionete’s puppet body in the next film. Making a practical puppet and not using it a lot felt like sort of a waste, similar to the withered animatronics. Overall, I wouldn’t say this is a perfect film, there are definitely flaws that are apparent but I wouldn’t necessarily say it was a bad movie. The Director, Emma Tammie, has stated that this was not meant to be a film for critics, it was for the fans and that statement is shown in this faithful movie.
