Welcome to your five nights at Freddy's review !!! Fair warning Spoilers but im going to try my hardest not to do too many. So first off let me tell you the synopsis.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is a 2025 American supernatural horror film based on the video game series Five Nights at Freddy's created by Scott Cawthon and the sequel to the 2023 film adaptation.[5] The film was directed by Emma Tammi and written by Cawthon. Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Theodus Crane, and Matthew Lillard reprise their roles from the previous film, with Freddy Carter, Skeet Ulrich, Wayne Knight, Mckenna Grace, and Teo Briones joining the cast. Set a year after the previous film, it follows Abby Schmidt (Rubio) as she reconnects with her animatronic friends, leading to events that reveal the origins of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. ( taken from Wiki ) This one is heavily influenced by the 2nd game in the series.
If you have seen the 1st movie ( spoiler for the first film just in case you havent seen it before then you know that William Afton was locked inside the freezer at the franchise Freddy's Fazbears Pizzeria. He was locked inside the Springlock Golden Bonnie aka Yellow Rabbit. Springlocks activated and crushed him obviously we know he was unalived at the end with the kid inside Golden Fredddy locking him inside the freezer. Then to recap a bit more on the other characters. We end with Abby and Mike getting help from the kids inside the original Animatronics from the 1st movie....Freddy, Chica, Bonnie and of course Foxy.. to take over and get rid of William afton and Save Abby from being unalived. Don't forget we find out that Vanessa is his daughter ( totally different from the game lore ) and ends up getting stabbed by her father William as she also tried to save Abby and Mike. Then we end with Vanessa in the hospital as well. Abby is sad because her friends are left at the pizzeria and we are unsure exactly what happened to them after the whole event.
NOOOOOW lets get into the new movie shall we? We start out with a flashback in time to 1982, at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, Charlotte Emily witnesses William Afton, the restaurant's founder and serial killer, lure a boy into the backroom. Charlotte sees this and tries to warn everyone that something isn't right and that she saw a little boy being taken into the back by the Springlock Bonnie. After failing to get any of the parents attention, she goes to to the curtains by the stage and enters and sees William trying to murder the boy. She find the boy see's him , grabs him, and tries to escape with him. As she carries the boy back to the main stage, William stabs her. She dies from the stab wounds, and a puppet-like animatronic called the Marionette emerges holding Charlotte's corpse ( the Marrionette was very important to Charlotte. She told Vanessa that the Marionette was the only thing that would listen to her and she loved it. Vanessa told her that she isn't real but she understand and tries to get her to come eat cake. ). The location is shut down, but a new one opens shortly after. Cut to Vanessa waking up in her bed...ok Vanessa made it and she is doing a whole lot better physically but we soon find out mentally she is not doing well at all. We also find out that it is a year after the fist happening and they are all trying to move onn but poor Vanessa is having bad dreams about her good ol dad...talk about daddy issues am i right lmao. Mike calls and apparently sees if they are still going to meet up that night for a "not date" lol. They discuss how her sleep was and they agree to see each other that night.
Cut to Abby and Mike at their new house and a new friend who is coming to help Mike with painting their new house they moved into. Abby is missing her friends and we find out that Mike has been saying he is going to fix them one day but right now just try to get back to normal. Abby is in a new school and already making new friends with the kids loving her stories ( regardless if they believe her or not ) about her time with freddy and the gang. She meets a little boy who believes her and seems to become her new best friend. In her robotics class her teacher sees her working on her project and is a real sh*thead and decides to try and gaslight Abby to not come to the science fair and compete because her piece isnt good enough. He is quite the a$$hole if you ask me. She is sad and talking to her new friend and he says have you tried fixing your friends by yourself instead...she then thinks for a second and we find out well.....she definitely wants to do it.
Meanwhile Mike and Vanessa meet up and he is concerned with the fact Abby and Vanessa are still heavy into thinking about the previous events and he just wants everyone to get back to normal. He then suggests Vanessa should do what he was doing when he was Dreamscaping to find out what happened to Garrett. He tells her how she will never forgive, move past or move on in any way unless she faces it head on in her dreams. It may help her. She seems to shrug it off but i mean he isn't wrong it kinda helped him for sure and hopefully it helps her.
LETS CUT FORWARD> Abby leaves her house and rides her bike to Fazbears to try and fix her friends and find the entire place torn apart and shattered. She is sitting in the middle of the rubbish when back at the house Mike comes home to find a note on the door saying I went to " fix my friends". He drives to Fazbears and finds Abby. He apologizes to her and tells her he is sorry that he didn't tell her earlier but maybe her friends went to heaven and they seem to be ok. She is sad sure but also comforted thinking they may have moved on and went to heaven. Mike tries to cheer her up and tells Abby to take something home with her and she sees the Fazbear Faztalker which lets you speak to the characters and they respond with automated answers in tons of variety. Upon leaving, Mike sees a flyer that says " Fazbears is Murder " and a number to call and he takes it.
We cut to a van with 3 paranormal investigators that had been called and told about the original location where Charollette had died at previously and told it was haunted. When they arrive, a security guard name MIchael ....yes you guessed it ( hopefully ) Michael Afton, William Afton's son. Looking all sinister and not at all what we were expecting ( In the games he was trying his hardest to find his father to unalive him and get rid of the evil that has surrounded Fazbears ...which obviously was his father.. and free the souls trapped inside all of the animatronics. In the games he went by the names Mike Shmidt and Eggs Benedict ). Turns out this version, the movie lore said...no we want to make Michael evil like his father to take over his legacy...the very opposite of the games. ANYWAYS , Michael takes them inside and they start filming...this scene is very iconic and true to the games. It is heavily influenced by the games and made almost identical to the 2nd game. Since this was so nostalgic for me it made me happy i mean come on that is something we all had been wanting to see for a long time. Not to mention the animatronics were so beautifull identcally done it was a wonderful site to see. Back to Lisa ( the investigator ) who asks where Foxy is, where Michael reveals he was a failed take-apart-and-put-back-together attraction. When Lisa begins to hear music, she suggests they split up. She follows the direction where the music comes from, while Michael takes Alex to Kids' Cove, Rob wanders into the boat ride tunnel and notices something strange about the lighting. We follow her down a hallway into a room where she deactivates a music box, awakening the Marionette, possessed by Charlotte. The Marionette controls new "Toy" mascots. The other boys Rob and Alex are exploring as well and Alex hears the noise and runs to attempt to rescue her and gets captured by Mangle ( mangled Foxy ). Rob still exploring the tunnel sees and hears a light go out and it startles him and he falls in the water. Turning around he notices the little marrionette dolls were all gone and the last one is seen jumping into the river where Rob had fallen and next thing we know he looks down and all of them are there. They drug him down and we all know when the water goes red its never a good thing. Michael Afton, after heading downstairs, finds Lisa getting possessed by the Marionette, who turns out to be the spirit of the murdered Charlotte. As the possessed Lisa charges at Michael, he runs out of Freddy's and makes it out in time.
That night cut too Mike, Abby and Vanessa go to bed and everyone is sleeping. Vanessa has a hard time at her spin class and rushes home and decides that she was goung to do what Mike had suggested and falls into her sleep state and dreams about good ol daddy. At one point William chases Vanessa in their old house where he chases her into his old workship forcing her to hide. While hiding, she sees another animatronic, who's eyes glow and turn to look at her. Low and behold the beautiful circus baby...if you know her you know this is the animatronic that ate and killed Williams youngest daughter Elizabeth.) Soon after, Vanessa runs and ends up back in her police uniform and heads back to the hallway to find William standing at the end, picking up a knife. She shoots him and he falls off the railing. He then tells her basically that you are my favorite and you will always be mine. You can not escape me and you never will.
Its raining hard and Abby asleep hears her Faztalker go off....what???? Turns out it spells her name and then says help us. She gets up and says wait ...Chica is that you ? The talker says yes and asks her to come and find them and that they need help. She gets up in the middle of the nights and rides her bike to the new location...the one we saw the Spectural Scoopers Paranormal team at. She heads in and yells for Chica...Chica in her Toy form ... Chica explains she has a new look and can speak now. Abby was like well its different and kinda cold but yay they can tlak to each other now. Abby hugs her and then it cuts the scene with toy Chica giving an ominous look and hugging Abby. It cuts to the morning and we are unsure of where Abby is currently. Vanessa shows up at Mikes house needing to speak with him and Abby comes running out and scares her saying "don't you know the first rule in hide and seek is check behind the door." Vanessa laughs and Abby shows her her finished Robotic Science Fair version of little Chica. She tells Vanessa that Chica helped her and then describes where she was when she had spoken to Chica and it was the original place where as we learned in the very beginning Vanessa and Charlotte were hanging out together at.
Mike coming home from getting breakfast is met by Abby showing him her drawings of the new Fazbears locations and her and her friends hanging together. He supports her and tells her thats awesome and she says oh "Vanessa is here." He then walks up to a now concerned Vanessa who tries to tell Mike and warn him of the dangers that Abby may be in but Mike isnt hearing it and just wants them all to go back to normal. He says he is trying to fix everything and everyone including Vanessa in which she gets mad and thinks that is all he was trying to do when she thought maybe it was that he liked her and cared about her. She gets mad and leaves.
On the day of the science fair, Mike drops her off in school before leaving and telling her he will be back. He then goes to visit Henry's house ( which was the man that had posted the Fazbears is Murder with his number attatched. He had spoken with Mike ) . Upon arrival, Henry invites him in and reveals that he is the mastermind behind the boycott flyers all over the city, out of grief from his daughter's loss, which he suspects as murder. Mike learns about the river rides at the original Freddy's location. Mike, getting a little spooked because he remembers what Abby had drawn previously about the river ride, asks Henry if he can use his phone. After he calls the school and learns Abby isn't there, Henry gives him Charlotte's music box, which she used to sleep to in hopes it may help him.
Meanwhile Vanessa had driven over to the old location and goes inside. She then discovers the music box had been broken...in this case she knew Charlotte was out and about. She then tries speaking to her and we hear Charlotte's voice over the intercom. Charlotte not trusting her then attacks her and its revealed that Charlotte had possesed The girl Lisa ( the paranormal invesigator from earlier ). Cut to Abby at the science fair, she walks in with her project and the teacher again gaslights her take her project thinking it is not good enough to win and " accidently drops it" obviously not an accident and Abby runs off and rides her bike over to the Pizzeria and hugs Chica telling her what had happened. Chica says well why not take me as your project and you will for sure win . So they go to the security room after Chica explains that if Abby helps her with typing in a code for her it will release her and the others from the Pizzeria and they can go to the school together. Meanwhile Charlotte tells Vanessa if she doesnt tell her the code she will kill Abby. So Vanessa tells her the code and they are released into the wild lol.
Abby then takes Chica up to the science fair where everyone gathers around in awe until the teacher acuses Abby of dressing a friend up in a suit and she is a disgrace to their school. Chica getting pissed about it says that she wants to go talk to him and so Abby lets her do so. Which we find out Chica did want to talk and also see whats in that head of his...needless to say that head popped off real quick, Chica goes back and well Abby wins the Science fair.
Meanwhile Mike drives over to the first location and walks in discovering a bang. He opens what looks like a locker and Vanessa comes falling out of it. He unties her and she tells him about Charlotte and that she is out for revenge on parents that didnt heed her warning about William and the pizzeria of nightmares. Vanessa tell Mike the only way to stop it is to go to the security room and shut the animatronics down from the control room. After they reach the room Mike tells Vanessa to go search for Abby while he tracks the animatronics who escaped down and tries to shut them down. Vanessa leaves and Mike begins checking it out and trying to locate them. Meanwhile Fazfest that had started that day was going off with a bang. Who other than Toy Freddy shows up there with a group of kids surrounding him. They tell him he is awesome looking and proceeds to tell them he has to go, he needs to punish a group of bad people. They were like whao he is so cool.
Back at the science fair, Chica senses someone is breaching into the security system. She then reactivates the old animatronics that are there ...dun DUN DUUN !!!!! WITHERED ANIMATRONICS FROM Freddy's 2 ( the game) this part is awesome. In this scene we get to see basically real life game play in a movie. This whole scene is the best. Balloon Boy shows up and alerts the animatronics ( just like in the game ) Mike then jumps up and snaps Balloon Boy's head off but its too late. Freddy, Chica, and Bonnie show up . Bonnie is inside the grate and Mike shuts the grate back up. Mike then hides behind the Freddy Mask so Withered Freddy, Chica, and Bonnie think Mike is an animatronic. Then....Foxy shows up and like the game the mask doesn't work against him. While he is trying to fend them off he has been telling Vanessa where to go to find the animatronics and hopefully Abby. He then manages to get her to a persons house where toy Bonnie is at however while on the way Vanessa is attacked by Mangle and crashes her car. She gets it started back up and continues to drive to the location crashing hercar almost into the house Mangle goes shooting through the window saving a mother and her child from getting killed by Toy Bonnie and gets them out of the house. Mike manages to shut all the animatronics down before Foxy can slice his head off with his hook. Vanessa gets back into her car when Mike hears a beep and looks down seeing that one animatronic is still alive and headed to their house. He tells Vanessa that they are headed to his house so she starts heading there as well as he does. Her car breaks down and Mikes friend who was helping him at the beginning of the movie with his house pulls up and is like Vanessa do you need a lift and she was like yes take me to Mike's house right now and so he does. Back at Mikes house....bad...things....happen and we find out Abby has been possessed by Charlotte. She chases Vanessa around even repeating " don't you know the first place to check in hide and seek is behind the door" again. Catches her and i will say the look of her is so freakin creepy but it's so cool.
Meanwhile Mike gets up and heads to the other location, where Abby's friends were, after shutting the animatronics down for a period of time. Mike then begs for the spirits of her friends, if they can hear him, to please come and help Abby. She is in danger and she really needs them . He then leaves and heads to his house where he finds possessed Abby and Vanessa. He opens up the box that Henry had given him and opened it up playing the music. Charlotte releases Abby and soon after Michael Afton shows up. He reveals he is Vanessa's brother to Abby and Mike and tell Vanessa that they are Williams kids and they need to continue his legacy for him. Vanessa says no and stands with Mike and Abby. Michael Afton gets mad and then the Toy animatronics , Freddy, Chica and Bonnie are reactivated and show up at Mike's house along with Mangle. Michael Afton, angry she didn't side with him tells the animatronics to crush their bones and kill them. right about that time you hear it...the most amazing sound...foxing humming and then BAM!!!!!! Freddy, Chica and Bonnie show up...ABBY'S FRIENDS ARE HERE. They destroy the animatronics and Michael Afton tries to escape. The friend from the beginning Jeremiah i think it was clothe lines Michael and asks him "where do you think you are going" and then goes in to help the others.
Abbys so happy to see her friends and notices they are fasing. Vanessa tells her they were not programed to withstand leaving the pizzeria but they did to help her. The little blonde boy who posseses Golden Freddy appears and looks over at Mike and says basically you know i won't be able to hold him back once we are gone. Abby asks if they are going to heaven now and he says basically yes and moving on. He then looks at Mike and says that he , who we know is William , will come back now stronger than ever and they need to watch out. Mike looks over to ask a question and he is gone and the others fade as well. Mike grabs Abby and him, Jeremiah, and Abby go to walk outside. He looks back and tells VAnessa to stay away from them. She asks why and he says because i can't trust you now and she walks over following them to the door and she stands in the doorway as the others are walking away. She then opens her eyes wide, they start to glow, purple startst o show up on her fave like the MArrionette....and then ...boom the movie ends...
BUT WAIT THERE"S MORE !!!!! 2 post credit scenes. First Post Credit scene reminds me of what would be a good start to the theme park Horror ride in the 3rd game. A couple of people walk in searhing for things to collect and take back to wherever they are going. They find an animatronic and they were like this smells like death. Automatically you are like .....WILLIAM!!! Then he says to get something to wrap it up and take with them. It then pans on his face and you see the one yellow glowing eye and you just know it it is william.
2nd is a soundbite from Henry to Mike warning him about everything and that he thinks they were murders and he hopes this gets to him and at the end you can hear a struggle so now we are thinking Henry might have been got by something or ,....someone.
OK NOW MY THOUGHTS.
This movie was everything i wanted and more. It was such a cool twist and take on the games while making it its own Lore as well. I loved seeing all the characters and the new security room come to life. The river boat ride was a nice touch. The carousel is there, where you see Balloon boy at at the beginning in the games and everything. The security room is to a T and it is glorious. The new twist on Charlotte possessing people is really awesome. They found a way to blend movie and game together so well and bring the game lore and movie lore together. I am not mad about it. I think it is a little weird about them making Michael Afton a bad guy and making Vanessa Williams daughter to begin with. However, i digress and actually like how it fits into the story even though its strange to us game fans. The acting 9 out of 10 ( I think the girl who plays Abby needs just a little more experience but she did good though). Suspenseful and jumpscares galore!! Would love to go back and see it again. The sfx of course was great and the way it was shot was perfectly chosen and times with such a great ominous cinematic Viewpoint. I visually enjoyed this. The nostalgia from being a advid Freddy's gamer really was felt during the entire movie as well. The action scenes were short but they were nicely done and fun as hell to watch!! movie altogether was a 9.5/10 !!! I suggest seeing it in the theaters but if you wait then you wait and its gunna be good then too !!
