As with its predecessor, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 has a fundamental problem: animatronic pizza parlor animals are weird and creepy but not actually frightening.

Moreover, it shares with its 2023 ancestor a crippling case of illogicality—an issue which proves more troublesome this time around, since Emma Tammi’s sequel (December 5, in theaters) attempts to expand the mythology of the video game-based franchise. Doubling its killer-robot cast and diving deep into the source of their malevolence, it’s a follow-up that has enough PG-13 mayhem and cutesy Easter eggs to satisfy the fanboy faithful. Yet when it comes to scares, it can’t even deliver the, ahem, bear necessities.

Once again directed by Tammi and written by game creator Scott Cawthon, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 provides insight i

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