This film has a bad official rep but I have no idea why. It's turn out at the box office was 'dismal' although strangely it's got a very good response of Rotten Tomatoes (presumably because they know what they're talking about, although they do overrate it a bit) except by one misguided person who wrote 'Dreadful. Absolutely inappropriate for kids.' Presumably they're using the term 'kids' generally.
Primarily I don't know why it got such a bad response except that it differed so much from the first film. There are some blatant sexual references like a group masturbation fantasy that probably turned off original fans since nothing like that is in the first film but to me didn't seem tacked on. The setting and characters are completely different from the first film except for Ginger and Brigitte. The tone is different too with a somewhat less serious feel through the character of Ghost. This probably accounts for the 'dreadful sense of ironic humour.' But I disagree with that. This film doesn't try to be funny or overstate itself like a sequel could easily do. Producers see a cult film with a good response and think 'ooh lets make some money out of it' and it turns into a piece of mainstreamed shit.
That's not what happened here. Don't expect Ginger Snaps version 2.0 it's a proper follow up film not a real sequel designed solely to cash in on the first and showing no new story or the best elements of the earlier film.
The real tragedy of it's response is that the next film Ginger Snaps Back (released the same year) didn't get a cinematic release since they thought no one would go and see it after this (I'm sure they would have been quite wrong.)
In short this film got a gross injustice with it's box office response. Just because it's not the same as the original doesn't mean it isn't good.
