In a year filled with plenty of underwhelming horror films, the recentSmile 2has come out to prove that modern horror can still hit as hard as ever, arriving to huge success at the box office and great critical reception, proving that theSmilefranchise still has lots of room to grow. The positive reviews andbox office success ofSmile 2have outperformed the first by a fairly significant margin, which has naturally drawn questions about what the project achieves for the people behind the scenes making the movie, namely Naomi Scott.
The critical success of the movie is particularly noteworthy for one ofSmile 2’s castmembers, Naomi Scott, who plays the film’s protagonist, Skye. Scott’s career hasn’t been particularly illustrious, and while she has appeared in one movie that was extremely successful at the box office wise prior to her most recent success,none of the films she has appeared in for the last 13 years have been met with a positive Rotten Tomatoes score. Her last critical success was in her very first film, in a project that has surely gone forgotten by most of the moviegoing public.
Smile 2 Is Naomi Scott’s First Movie With A Fresh Rotten Tomatoes Score Since Her Disney Debut
Smile 2 Is Now Her Biggest Rotten Tomatoes Success
Naomi Scott’s film debut was in a Disney Channel original movie calledLemonade Mouth, about a group of high school students forming a band, a film that seems to be very much the opposite of her most recent work. She played one of the central characters, called Mohini Banjaree, and, shockingly, this film is the only one in Scott’s filmography beforeSmile 2with a positive Rotten Tomatoes scorefrom critics. Granted,Lemonade Mouthonly has five reviews, but combined, they’re indicative of a solid endeavor.
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Scott’s most well-known role is most likely when she played Jasmine in 2019’sAladdin, which is a film that grossed a huge amount of money and found a lot of success with Disney fans, scoring a very high audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. However,the critical reception was decidedly less positive, achieving only 57% on the website, mostly for its inability to live up to the original 1992 classic. Regardless of whether the score is fair or not, the film was another in a long line of Rotten Tomatoes misses beforeSmile 2.
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Her other films have less surprising results, withnone of them able to reach the heights ofLemonade Mouth, though most seemed destined to perform poorly anyway. 2019’sCharlie’s Angelsreboot scored low critically, very much in the same vein as the 2017Power Rangersreboot, which scored even lower. Naomi Scott is performing at her best in this most recent film,and a potentialSmile 3would hopefully be able to continue the success that Scott has seen now withSmile 2.
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Smile 2 is the sequel to the 2022 psychological horror film by director Parker Finn that centers on a therapist who witnesses a patient’s suicide, leading to a series of terrifying supernatural events. The sequel will see the return of Finn as director, with Paramount continuing distribution.
