YMMV / Jeepers Creepers 2

• Catharsis Factor: Jack Sr. spearing the Creeper through the head, then grabbing another spear and repeatedly stabbing him. After everything the monster had done (up to and including killing Jack's son), it's absolutely gratifying.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • The Taggarts receive a lot of love from the fans for providing some awesome moments and some powerful emotional scenes as well. Technically, the Taggarts are named first in the credits, but this is a Billing Displacement, as they only have about half an hour of screen time.
  • Action Girl Rhonda and Lovable Coward Chelsea might have less plot prominence than their friend Minxie but are often better-liked.
• Nightmare Retardant: Just try to take the Creeper seriously when it's jumping around with only one arm and leg.
  MikeJ: Look at it go. That's hilarious!
  • Similarly, when it's impaled with a harpoon and Jack Sr. is able to treat it like the biggest fish he'd ever caught.
• Sequelitis: The second film was not as well received as the first. Ironically, the whole premise of The Creeper ("every 23 years, for 23 days, it feeds") was written to avert this very thing, which led to Jeepers Creepers 2 to be set days after the first. The third film, while initially set to be the full 23 years later, was revised into an Interquel.
• Signature Scene: The Taggarts’ fighting the Creeper with their homemade harpoon gun (and their rematch with him a couple of scenes later) might be the best-regarded moment in the whole trilogy, let alone this movie.

• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: There are those who feel that this movie, while less subtly spooky than the first one, was far more thrilling and entertaining. It helps that, while we see the Creeper more often, the fact that it strikes from the air and disappears just as quickly made it more frightening.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Chelsea is fairly well-liked and decently acted, but has almost no plot relevance and is never named onscreen.

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