YMMV / I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

• Best Known for the Fanservice: The film tends to be best-known for being quite gifable for Jennifer Love Hewitt spending the second half in a soaking wet open blouse, and Hewitt in a bikini trapped in a tanning bed.
• Contested Sequel: The movie has a lot of fans who feel it's an improvement over the first - namely characters like Karla and Nancy proving to be popular, and the setting to still be interesting. Others find it a step down, with a lot of Idiot Ball going around and plenty of Narm in the twists. Fans like to pretend the third movie doesn't exist, but the second is still treated as canon except maybe by those who dislike how dialogue states that Helen wasn't just Only Mostly Dead in the climax of the first film.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The scene in the storm shelter where Julie, Nancy and Karla find the bodies is played in a Bloody Hilarious way with all the over-the-top screaming.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Karla is a supportive friend to Julie, does her best to help her through what's going on and proves to be a Badass Bystander during one of the chase scenes - even saving Julie and Nancy by pushing Ben Willis through a roof! Brandy also makes her fun and likable. She was originally supposed to die, but filmmakers decided to spare her.
  • Nancy is quite the capable Action Girl, getting the girls to safety after Tyrell is killed. She's also fun and sassy, Jennifer Esposito stealing every scene she's in.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • There's an instance of a girl getting trapped inside of a tanning bed.
  • Julie's love interest is played by Matthew Settle. Settle would later become good friends and roommates with Jennifer Love Hewitt's eventual fiancee Ross McCall (and they would also star together in Band of Brothers).
  • Just one year later Brandy would star in another film where she wins a fake radio contest - Double Platinum.
• Narm:
  • Julie's 'epic' putdown to Ben Willis when they're reunited? "God, you sick freak!"
  • Karla is on top of a conservatory and tries to walk on top of the glass but falls through the ceiling. The moment comes off like a slapstick moment from the Home Alone films instead of a slasher film.
  • When Tyrell says "Nah, I'm just fucking hungry", it sounds odd and forced. And during his rant in the kitchen, he takes time to say he's horny with an annoyed look at Karla.
  • The film’s very title, which should logically be “I still know what you did two summers ago.” Especially since they also came up with the perfectly workable “I Still Know” but for some reason didn’t just go with it.
• Narm Charm: Mathew Settle's performance after the Evil All Along reveal is so hammy that it's fun to watch.
• Obvious Judas: Will Willis being Ben Willis’ son and accomplice. It could have been a big twist given that, unlike Tyrell, he believes Julie and is nice to everyone. Unfortunately, his fake name (Will Benson) give his true identity away.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Captain Ronald Speirs is Will.
  • Jack Black has an uncredited role as the stoner Titus.
  • John Hawkes as Ray's friend Dave and the Sacrificial Lamb.
  • Jeffrey Combs as the ill-tempered manager of the resort.
• The Scrappy: Tyrell is pretty much the same as Barry from the last film, and is equally disliked.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: It's noted that as soon as the storm hits, the movie gets a lot more suspenseful.
• Special Effects Failure: When Tyrell gets hooked in the neck, the blood coming from his neck is obviously CG. It disappears into thin air, and none of it stains his T-shirt or skin.
• Take That, Scrappy!: When Tyrell is getting too unbearable, Nancy attacks him thinking he's the killer. And then he gets hooked through his throat shortly after that.
• Too Cool to Live: Nancy who was originally going to survive the film ended up dying.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The whole trick of Willis pretending to be from the radio station in order to trick the girls wouldn't have worked nowadays, as almost everyone has a cellphone that will show who's calling.
• Values Dissonance: The characters all think that Estes is the killer just because he follows the Voodoo religion, which unintentionally makes them come across as rather bigoted (imagine if they thought someone was the killer just because he was Jewish or Muslim, for example).

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