- Lack of atmosphere
- Mask issues
- Too many Scream influences
- Why Michael isn’t burned?
There are a lot of things I do enjoy about the movie. The action scenes, the rest stop scene, and the opening.
Hated the mask(s). Michael looks like a raccoon at times, and a fan in a bad costume at others.
Hated Durand’s performance. Too much Ghostface, especially when the two kids are trapped between a locked door and a closed gate with Michael frantically swinging his knife at them… much like a giddy, testosterone-loaded teen in adrenaline overload about to score his first kill. Too much Scream. It also bothered me that JLC was basically playing JLC, not Laurie. I can’t buy her as Laurie in any scene, and can’t buy Michael as The Shape.
I remember reading an interview with Moustapha Akkad in Fangoria around the time Resurrection was in pre-production. He said something to the effect of “the Michael in H20 was an impostor, and the real Michael will be back in Halloween 8.” I thought to myself “that’s brilliant! That completely explains why Michael was so…not Michael in H20. Wow, they had a guy play it that way purposely.” Well, not quite. But, he had me going for a bit.
Sucks for Brad Loree that he had to exist in such an awful film. He would’ve been a much better choice for Myers in H20, IMO.
The scene where Michael repeatly stabs the girl in the kitchen was 100% not Michael. Too much Ghostface, I 100% agree. Brad would have been a better fit.
I liked it, but it felt very commercial. Not dark enough IMO. I didn’t really like the “Laurie going after Michael” vibe either. What makes Halloween special is when Michael is on the attack and the feeling that Michael could be anywhere. That could have been really cool at an empty boarding school with a handful of students, but they sent everyone away except for Laurie and Michael.
It felt too much a like a Scream rip off. Yes I know Scream was influenced by Halloween but H20 just felt like it took too much from those horror elements from the late 90s and reused them. Hearing Jamie Lee drop F-bombs kinda made it cheap and campy along with LL Cool J’s acting (very painful, just like the rapper from part 
. The film score was… ok, but they really should have done some synthesizer elements to add to the atmosphere. I mean they just reused Scream’s music in places which was just plain cheap and lazy. Lastly I really hated the mask they went with for all those reshoots. They’d been better using that H6 mask that made it in there for a few scenes. I think Steve Miner was a bad choice too (ever seen Lake Placid?). Over all I can see why John Carpenter passed on doing this movie.
I don’t like the was Myers looks and acts. Reminds me of a young boy, it just feels off to me. The hair ruined the mask too. His eyes also looked too exposed!
I loved H20. It was very unique. I hate that it doesn’t show how he appeared. Did he break out of Smiths Grove again? Where did he get the mask and coveralls? I hate it killed off Marion Chambers. But overall a very good movie in my opinion.
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Love h20
I like H20. It was great having Jamie lee Curtis back which I think made it feel more like a Halloween movie than 4, 5 and 6. I would have liked it to have opening credits more like the first 2 and a darker/colder atmosphere but overall I like it. I do like Halloween 4 but the town didn’t look or feel like Haddonfield and Michael was too big and stiff. The 2 cops in Halloween 5 with the goofy cartoon music was ridiculous not to mention the Myers mansion. Halloween 6 had a completely different feel with the cult. For me H20 is the better choice for a sequel to H1 and H2.
It was named Halloween Halloween 20: Twenty Years Later
We still continue off the stupid sister hunting thing, this means Michael Myers cant be anywhere in peoples mind, he’s just hunting his sister which is not as scary as Michael being The Boogeyman and being anywhere like the first movie
The score is a joke, where are the synth stings? John Carpenter once said he showed Halloween to a bunch of film students but this was before the score or music was later added, the students thought it sucked, said that it was boring, Halloween H20 has a scream wannabe soundtrack
The characters including laurie’s son are not interesting, when Michael kills the friends, we dont feel for them as much, they dont set up characters and give depth to them unlike the movie ALIEN which is a perfect example of character development
Michael Myers kills are stupid in this movie, they aren’t memorable or unique like in the first film
The Shape is no longer The Shape, there is barely a stalking scene to sell Michael Myers as how he was from the first film, he doesn’t move doors or windows anymore and isn’t portayed as a force of nature in this movie, people get the wrong idea about Michael and stray away from that ghostliness he had in the first film
The mask sucks, it basically just contradicts what Loomis said about Michael having the blackest eyes, cause now we can see his eyes and its silly
No blue lighting suspense and shear darkness like the original
A lot of good points in this thread. I didn’t really hate it & the Winston mask was ok. I guess what honestly bugged me the most is how he walked like he had a load in his pants 
Very solid analysis. I remember in the theater I was stoked to see it… But as time wore on all the warts started to show. And boy are they aplenty.
Durand sucked as Michael. His “walk” and movement was like the exact opposite of what Myers really was. Not to mention the terrible mask and as others have mentioned, the giant eye holes.
It really was a JLC empowerment film. Myers was just the catalyst for her to overcome her fears and move forward with her life. Big mistake.
Music was atrocious. No quality buildup or lead to anything. Cues were almost nowhere to be found.
Ending fell off a cliff. I know they wanted a “gotcha” moment or something that would stick with you when you walked out, but that just wasn’t the typical behavior either of these two characters had shown prior.
I actually like the movie but of course things can’t be perfect. Main problem with the movie is that the score wasn’t Halloween theme and the only time we really heard the music was at the beginning & the ending when Laurie chopped his head off. Which I also liked if they were putting an end to the series which they didn’t do. And I didn’t like the different masks they used. But overall the movie was actually good to me plus I seen it twice at the movies back in 98 
Good Times yes indeed