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Publisher: Warner Home Video Salesrank: 10833 Released: 2008-07-29 Theatrical-Release: 2008-07-29
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Not too bad for a DTV sequel. 
There are a lot of small references to the first film. The opening sequence looks just like the first. They even have Timmy Capello( the buff sax player) in it for a few seconds. Corey Haim’s appearance was very very short as well as Jamison Newlander’s. It was not too bad, but some of the death’s especially Shane’s were too quick. Anyway check it out. Still think the first one is the best.
A Load of Rubbish 
If I could rate this movie zero stars, I would. It had none of the feel of the first movie except in the few instances where Corey Feldman was on screen. While the story had some similarities to the original, it was doomed by its low budget actors and locations. If they would have spent some money and actually filmed the thing in California instead of Vancouver, it may have been somewhat palatable. No one was fooled by the stock surfing footage or the overcast skies of Southwestern BC. Angus Sutherland did not come through. He was just not eerie enough like his older half brother, Keifer Sutherland was in the first, and his quick demise at the end was ridiculous! If the writers had any sense they would have dropped the whole “lets do the same sort of story again but with better effects and some nudity” and focused on a story true Lost Boys fans (and probably a whole new generation) would have actually liked–perhaps developing one of the alternate endings which had definite potential–we all would have had a great time! Instead we get a B-rate vampire movie with the label of “Lost Boys” to get people to watch it. I would have at least enjoyed it a wee bit if they had made no association to the original movie. Save your money and buy another copy of the original.
You know what you’re going to get 
“The Lost Boys; The Tribe” Directed by P.J. Pesce
Chris Emerson (Tad Hilgenbrink) is on a down hill slide. Chris was set to take over the pro surfing circuit but after an altercation with another surfer Chris’s bad reputation has gotten him kicked off the tour. To top that off, Chris’s parents have been killed in a car wreck and Chris is left to care for his 17 year old sister Nicole (Autumn Reeser). Chris and Nicole land in Luna Bay California where an aunt had agreed to let them stay…for $650 a month. Things aren’t looking all down though, Chris is discovered by Shane Powers (Angus Sutherland) a former pro surfer who for some unknown reason left pro surfing and wasn’t heard from again. Shane wants Chris to come to a party later that night…
“Lost Boys; The Tribe” is pretty much what you are expecting. “The Tribe” is a bad B movie sequel which was made far too late to retain any of its star power but is still trying to ride off of its predecessor’s name. It does appear that it worked a little though as I was compelled to see it even though I knew what I was going to get and I don’t seem to be the only one.
The Good: Its predecessor and I have to admit it was kind of cool to see Corey and Corey on screen again even if it was just for a second and in a terrible movie.
The Bad: Pretty much all the things you expect. A terrible script with a ludicrous plot and “Buffy Like” special effects (Which were fine for Buffy but not for this). The action sequences all felt inserted and forced. The plot itself felt tumbled together and rushed and the character development is extremely weak. Feldman seemed to be trying to Play Edward Frog as saltier version of the character which was pretty funny even though it wasn’t intended to be.
Overall: Many will have to see this movie just because of what it is. That being the case, go in with low expectations and you won’t be disappointed.
What You’d Expect 
I thought, “Wow, this is either going to be REALLY okay or a solid awful.” It was really okay.
Straight-to-video horror has this motif where gory or crazy scenes are sped up. It looks dumb, but for some reason it’s done here, as well. Strike one.
The script was awful. There are so many nods to the first one that the movie begins to feel like a cheap knock-off rather than a sequel. The big scene in the credits was cool but made little sense. And the Allan Frog scenes were deleted. Strike two.
Strike three would have been weak characters, but I remembered that, like the first one, the characters reflect what passes for cool at the time. So it ulimately makes sense that the vampires are interchangeable party animals with no depth, or that the head vampire, a surprisingly good character, dresses like he’s off to some vamp club. By faulting the movie for that would be a social commentary, not so much the writers’ faults here.
Feldman’s scenes are the best, as others here have stated. If you are, like me, a fan of the first one and need to kill your curiousity, go ahead and see it. But trust me, you already know what to expect without these reviews to tell you.
good movie, but a horrible sequal 
Well, i have mixed feeling on this one. I think if you take it out of the sequal context, its an ok vampire movie. They went a little overboard on the typical scary movie stuff, the boobs and sex scenes that are so typical and not needed. the scene with Haim was horrible. They got the plot all messed up. it was very rushed. They could have done much better.