This movie is not as bad as people make it out to be!

I'm not a huge fan of this series, but I enjoy it. I really liked the first one, thought the second one was ok but fairly boring. And I really liked the third one. Thought it was the creepiest of all. I went into this one expecting it to be the worst movie of all time. Like up there with Troll 2, especially after reading Harry Knowles (Ain't it cool news" recent review of it calling it "borderline unwatchable". I watched this last night and I do not see how it's any worse than the second one. It was far from perfect, but I still enjoyed it. Here are the pros and cons I came up with:

Pros:

1) Maintains same look and feel as the first three
2) Has creepy children in it, like the third one which I always like
3) Has some good suspensful moments in it\
4) None of the characters were extremely unlikeable
5) Has more Katie in it than the previous 2
6) For being the fourth installment of a horror series, it really could have ben worse.

Cons:

1) Too many unnecesary jump scares that were never actually supernatural related.
2) The editing over all was not the greatest, it seemed to frequently cut out in mid conversation, at least in the extended version.
3) The ending left something to be desired. Kind of confusing and not very scary.

So overall, I think it was a very satisfactory movie for being a part 4. There has got to be some people out there that agree with me right???