After watching a cursed videotape, Natsumi, a young smart girl, who has a happy life, who struggles against being chased by an evil entity, the thing that challenges her, so she makes her mind to make the demon in fights with another demon.
It is all broadly scare-free and utterly ridiculous, but Shiraichi embraces the absurdity with delirious enthusiasm, showing us how the horror stuff on which we have all been raised might combine and blur into a recognisable but new entity.
Not a particularly clever or imaginative film--that much is clear from its pathetic rendering of the Sadako video--and most of the titular battle is deferred to a sequel.
Sadako and Kayako themselves remain as one-dimensional as ever; they're just angry killing machines with no real personality or depth, so the finale is a bit of a fizzle.
While it may be missing that epic feeling we'd hope for in a cinematic fight like this, it's still an entertaining endeavor that I'd recommend to fans looking for some goofy, supernatural fun.
Director Koji Shiraishi barely fulfils the obligations of his film's title, delivering an awkward horror-comedy that's a far cry from its eerie predecessors.
