When Jan de Bont’s Speed 2: Cruise Control was released in 1997, there were only two American critics who gave it positive reviews: Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. A rare big-budget action movie that gives a woman top billing, Speed 2 is a perfectly serviceable sequel. Its execrable reputation comes largely from people who take the original Speed too seriously protesting that Speed 2 doesn’t take itself seriously enough. These parodies appear to result from – or perhaps have resulted in – widespread misperceptions about the plot of Speed 2. Drew’s dancing illuminates something people who can hear often don’t understand: the deep relationship deaf people can have with music.

Source: The Guardian March 26, 2021 06:18 UTC