I know what they did last summer. First reviews: Come for nostalgia, stay for the Gory Kills

Almost 30 years after the publication of the original, I know what you did last summer Receives a legacy sequel to the same name and the first reviews have arrived online. The new film, which is technically the fourth episode of the horror franchise after an independent continuation of 2006. The 2025 I know what you did last summer is praised by some as a meta-humorous relapse, while others are critical of their lack of originality and worthy fear.

The following say critics I know what you did last summer:

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Is that a worthy summer horror film?

The director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson made the catch of the season with this slim, common serial milder film.
– Alison Foreman, indiewire

As a continuation of almost three decades in the creation, it exceeds all expectations and completely nails the balance of nostalgia and brings a familiar story into our contemporary time.
– BJ Colangelo, Slashfilm

[It’s] A predictable and steady summer horror film, which convinces you to spend more time outside in the sun, instead of watching something so coherent, manufactured and complacent.
– Tyler Taing, discussion about film

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How about the rest of the franchise?

With a small lead it is probably the best I know what you did last summer always.
– Matt Singer, Screen Crush

This third sequel feels like the best of the series because there is comfort in the familiar environment, but there is plenty of space for the surprise and horror fans.
– Nick Ruhrkraut, award winner

For good and bad, [it’s] Just as mediocre a slasher as his predecessors.
– Dan Bayer, next best picture

As a slasher film? Yes, sure, it's okay. As a supplement to the I know what you did last summer Franchise? Divas, we're up!
– BJ Colangelo, Slashfilm

This version is Gorier as the original. Instead of implying deaths, you can now see a Harpoon weapon that pierces the chest of a victim.
– Allison Rose, Flickdirect

Robinson's iteration drives its R-rating. The number of bodies is indeed higher, as is the cruel gore.
– Courtney Howard, fresh fiction

What is different this time is that the film plays with the Slasher stuff than a whodunit.
– Owen Gleiberman, variety

If there is a consolation, it was at least one step above the multi -crowd I still know what you did last summer.
– Casey Chong, talking films

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What about other legacy continuations?

The film proudly carries its predecessors in their sleeves and easily cemented itself as the best modern horror restart we have.
– Lex Briscuso, vice versa

Fans of the last Scream Continuation can be found here in structure and in the way in how Julie and Ray repeat their legacy roles. However, it never feels reductive.
– Nick Ruhrkraut, award winner

It looks like a real film in contrast to 2022 Screamthat looked like a Netflix film.
– Benjamin Lee, Guardian

Robinson's attitude to the material is shamically imitatively, which the radio silence did with the 2020s Scream Continuation and what David Gordon Green did with his Halloween Trilogy. In short, the new one I know what you did last summer Is really a copy of a copy.
– Rocco T. Thompson, Slant Magazine

There are no interesting new topics that are added to the equation, which is particularly disappointing, as this often thrives as legacy continuations as this.
– Sean Boelman, Fandomwire

It is one of the worst attempts to revitalize a dead franchise recently, since the brand is generally available in the canonical C list.
– Tyler Taing, discussion about film

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Is that more of a meta sequel?

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and Sam Lansky's script draw some strikingly clever meta between the events of 1997 and 2025 … it is happy confident.
– BJ Colangelo, Slashfilm

It is a kitschy comment on these ridiculous films, which also understands that the ridiculousness makes it lovable and that our love – albeit sometimes ironically – is real.
– William Bibbiani, Thewrap

[It’s] A little closer to the tone of a knowing horror comedy like how Scream As the first IkwydlsWhich was more of an uncomplicated hot teen-in-peril slasher.
– Matt Singer, Screen Crush

Late in this restart it says in a figure: “Nostalgia is overrated”, and it feels like an indictment against the film we have seen.
– Rocco T. Thompson, Slant Magazine

It is not as intelligent as it thinks; Ikwydls Just try to present the typical Legacy continuation topics with enough stupidity and irony so that it makes someone think that there is something deeper.
– Tyler Taing, discussion about film

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Did we really need that?

Robinson finds a way so as not to make your attempt exactly, but unpretentially pleasant enough so that this is not really important.
– Benjamin Lee, Guardian

To be honest, the entire film industry could use more original ideas and less looks back into the past. But this is entertaining enough that I will give him a passport.
– Matt Singer, Screen Crush

We are here for Last summer Shenanigans. And we are here again to experience this first, very entertaining film and occasionally on the first, very ridiculous sequel to reef.
– William Bibbiani, Thewrap

Robinson seems to serve a familiar dish, but she is not interested in the fact that it tastes like it. So if it turns into the recipe, regardless of how your palate reacts, you cannot deny the aftertaste that you linger with you for a long time.
– Peter Gray, The Au evaluation

The film feels like the predictable end point of a trend towards empty nostalgia, which runs through all large fish in the horror cinema and now comes to swallow whatever could be left behind.
– Rocco T. Thompson, Slant Magazine

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Is the film scary?

Harpunes have never been more terrible than here.
– Alison Foreman, indiewire

There are some solid jumps, mainly in the early moments of the film that could make your heart pump.
– Allison Rose, Flickdirect

Prepare yourself to stay on the edge of your seat with a lot of jumping and surprises, which you either keep to the end.
– Nick Ruhrkraut, award winner

There is not a single scene in this entry that feels particularly scary. Robinson spins her hand too much and telegraphed every jump fright so much that you may not even jump.
– Dan Bayer, next best picture

This slasher is Gorier than the original, but is not so interested in being scary.
– Tyler Taing, discussion about film

It often falls into a rudimentary constructed cycle of repeating, lackluster horror.
– Courtney Howard, fresh fiction

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How are the kills?

The kills are malignant.
– Dan Bayer, next best picture

In comparison to the 1997 film of the same name, the new death on death increases. The deaths have an element that gives an additional layer of horrified shocks.
– Darkkskylady, nerdist

Okay, yes, the tension of the kills is built almost immediately by a strong sense of humor, but that's exactly how the OG film works. At least this is honest.
– BJ Colangelo, Slashfilm

The most unforgivable of all is that there are no large kill sequences.
– Rocco T. Thompson, Slant Magazine

There is a noticeable lack of saturative payments with everyone.
– Courtney Howard, fresh fiction

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What about the script?

The new I know what you did last summer Derestomy until the credibility breaks out and false blood and sweets everywhere. And that's the best.
– William Bibbiani, Thewrap

There is an inconsistency with the narrative river and the logic building of the film.
– Matt Donato, dead every day

[There’s] A finale that is annoyed with the lights, which is certainly upset by a generation of long -time fans.
– Courtney Howard, fresh fiction

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Is it funny at all?

It encompasses the humor and puts it in the foreground, but is not afraid to brutally torture some Twentysomethings in this process.
– BJ Colangelo, Slashfilm

Laughing is largely reserved for degrees and throw -off figures, and after half -time the film forgets to be funny for long distances.
– Dan Bayer, next best picture

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What are the two returning stars?

They become pain to see Hewitt and Prinze together on the screen to know more ex-love interests than them.
– Alison Foreman, indiewire

Prinze is better here than he in the first film and releases a convincing figure as a man whose life was changed forever through this terrible event in his past.
– Matt Singer, Screen Crush

Prince Frank Langella causes a much more interesting actor in his salt-Piepper hair than before.
– Owen Gleiberman, variety

It is nice to see how Jennifer Hewitt Love Hewitt returns to her iconic role … but the same cannot be said with Freddie Prince Jr.s older and supposedly worldly Ray Bronson, whose spectacle is somehow questionable.
– Casey Chong, talking films

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Are there any outstanding services in the new line -up?

I don't know again.
– BJ Colangelo, Slashfilm

Madelyn Cline ensures the latest Scream Queen with a pretty flair for the comedy.
– Nick Ruhrkraut, award winner

Thanks to her letter for perfect comic-timing, Clines in particular makes a very appealing heroine for this type of film.
– Matt Singer, Screen Crush

It is impossible not to worship Madelyn Clines Helen Surrogate Danica.
– Lex Briscuso, vice versa

Clines comic chops remains immeasurable and Pidgeon's charisma wears every scene in which it is located.
– Dan Bayer, next best picture

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What are the biggest complaints?

This new one Ikwydls Has at least one too many ends, and it has a very slow and very familiar start.
– Matt Singer, Screen Crush

Paper -thin characters, strongly telegraphed fear and an excessive serious tone.
– Dan Bayer, next best picture

A third act that unfolds like nylon line on a broken bar … The weight of an over -comprised but poorly plotted story drags down into cloudy deep and made the route of the almost two -hour duration like paddling in place.
– Matt Donato, dead every day

In the third act, everything falls off pretty much. The story feels long and boring.
– Allison Rose, Flickdirect

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Should you make more of it?

I not only enjoyed the film, I will definitely see sequels.
– Darkkskylady, nerdist

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I know what they opened in the cinemas on July 18, 2025 last summer.

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