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[[caption-width-right:286:Rush hour hits the water.]]

The sequel to ''Film/{{Speed}}'', released in the year 1997.

Turns out that Annie's (Creator/SandraBullock) relationship with Jack didn't work out, and now she is seeing another police officer named Alex (Creator/JasonPatric). He takes her to a trip to the Caribbean, aboard the cruise ship Seabourn Legend. Unfortunately, the easy-going vacation comes to a halt as a disgruntled computer programmer named John Geiger (Creator/WillemDafoe) takes control of the ship, and sets it up with explosives.

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!!This sequel provides examples of:

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The cruise liner slows down ''faster'' when it's just running down yachts than it is when it crashes into the island.
* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km0acHJVXgs Make Tonight Beautiful]] by Tamia.
* BatDeduction: Alex first gets suspicious when Geiger doesn't watches a golf tournament in the bar after being so persnickety about his good clubs to the maitre'd and in a later scene he very quickly goes from "bad guy somehow brought a lot of bombs into the ship" to "they had to be really tiny bombs (said as he notices some dice on a nearby counter)" to "Geiger had the bombs concealed in his golf balls" and goes looking for him.
* TheBadGuyWins: Granted, it's something of a PyrrhicVictory, but Annie and Alex are so busy being lovey-dovey that they fail to realize that [[spoiler:the bad guy technically achieved virtually everything he set out to do. There was no way the cruise ship would be seaworthy again after crashing nearly a mile inland, he blew up the freighter and killed several people he had a grudge against, including the captain. If not for the slight matter of [[HoistByHisOwnPetard him getting blown up with the freighter]] and [[MacGuffin the diamonds]] falling into the sea and being salvaged by a third party, Geiger would have achieved a perfect scorecard]]. And considering Geiger was dying from a terminal illness, the only downside for him is he didn't get to live it up during his remaining time like he'd planned.
* BestServedCold: Geiger is steamed at the cruise line for firing him when he was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
* BusmansHoliday: The main characters are supposed to be on a holiday.
* ChainsawGood: Annie finds two in a closet and uses one of them to saw through a metal door.
* ChekhovsSkill: Alex knowing American Sign Language and there's a deaf teenager on board the ship.
* ContinuityNod:
** The guy whose Jaguar (license plate: TUNEMAN) gets wrecked in the first movie appears again to have his boat (the Tune Man) commandeered by Alex.
** The reason Annie and Jack aren't together: Relationships based on intense experiences never work.
* DemotedToExtra: Mac from the first film only has a cameo at the start of the film. Actor Joe Morton goes uncredited for his return.
* DieHardOnAnX: The passengers are unable to jump ship without being sucked into the ship's propellers. ([[RuleOfDrama Just roll with it.]])
* DieLaughing: Geiger laughs after his plane crashes onto an oil tanker before it explodes.
* FauxActionGirl: Annie turns into this, which is one of the film's many complaints. Annie is a vital part to everyone's survival in the first movie as she's driving the bus, but without that premise in this film, she just turns into a wisecracking, frazzled heroine without much to do.
* FlashedBadgeHijack: It happens again, to ''the same guy'', in ''the middle of the Caribbean''. The owner lampshades the sheer absurdity of this.
* GenreShift: While the movie does make something of an attempt at retaining the action thriller nature of its prequel (though the result is really something closer in tone to ''Film/DieHard''), for the most part it's more akin to a disaster movie, which is especially pronounced when the liner runs aground.
* GoingCommando: Several trapped passengers strip to block vents and stop smoke pouring through.
-->'''Harvey''': "I wanna know why she hasn’t taken anything off yet!"
-->'''Sheri''': "Cause I’m not wearing any underwear, Harvey."
* HeroInsurance: No one seems too concerned about an oil tanker exploding in the Caribbean.
* HollywoodHacking: Oddly enough played somewhat realistically: Geiger has to physically get on the ship to control it, install receivers, and he ''is'' the guy who programmed the ship to begin with.
* ImpressivePyrotechnics: Goodbye Geiger and his plane... as well as the oil tanker he crashed into.
* LighterAndSofter: Rated PG-13 instead of the R rating that the first film got. Made all the more obvious by the evident touches of campiness seen throughout the movie, in both the performances of most of the cast and the dialogue. This perhaps was not for the better, given the first film's more serious nature.
* LinkedListClueMethodology: Geiger hiding his detonators in a set of golf clubs. Alex gets suspicious when he notices Geiger isn't paying attention to a pro golf tournament on TV ... [[ConvictionByContradiction because as everyone knows]], one who enjoys ''playing'' a sport always enjoys ''watching'' it.
* MadeOfExplodium: One of the boats that the Seabourn Legend accidentally destroys.
* MassOhCrap: We cut to several people, one after another, having the same reaction as they realize what the ship is about to crash into.
* MythologyGag: Annie getting cut off in traffic by a replica bus from the first film.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Played with; the main characters manage to divert the ship away from colliding head-on with the oil tanker -- only to realize that they've instead set it on a collision course with a nearby marina, which ends up causing a lot more damage, especially considering that the tanker eventually gets blown up anyway. However, had the originally-planned collision taken place then everybody on-board both ships would have died instantly, whereas there are [[NoEndorHolocaust no casualties]] from the liner running aground, other than [[spoiler:Geiger eventually getting blown up with the tanker]]. So, it's not really a bad trade-off in that sense, it'll just require a lot more cleaning up after the fact.
* NotNowKiddo: "Mommy, there's a big boat!" [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "There are a lot of big boats here, honey."]] [[spoiler:Poor kid doesn't know enough English to say, "Yeah, but most of them aren't [[AdvancingWallOfDoom smashing through the pier]] [[LateToTheRealization straight at us!"]]]]
* {{Novelization}}: By George Ryan.
* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: At first, ''Film/{{Speed}}'' was probably named ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Speed 1 : Bus Control.]]''
* OminousMultipleScreens: Geiger delivers a MotiveRant via an entire wall of these.
* PlayingDrunk: Geiger walks onto the bridge pretending to be a lost drunken passenger, falls over and secretly plants a bug while getting up off the floor.
* PunBasedTitle: "Cruise Control" is the name of a feature on some automobiles that will cause the car to automatically maintain a particular speed without the driver needing to use the gas or brake pedals.
* PutTheLaughterInSlaughter: Geiger seems to be having a good time.
* PutOnABus: Amusingly enough, Jack, given the content of the first film, since his actor Keanu Reeves declined to return.
* RecycledPremise: A vehicle cannot stop due to the bombs that the villain planted on it, just like in the previous film. Annie even points it out at one point by saying that it was not a nice experience to live through ''once''.
* RedRightHand: Geiger's blood-cleansing leeches (he's a classicist when it comes to medicine).
* RunawayTrain: Ok, runaway ''boat'', but all the pieces fit: Geiger's tampering with the automated navigation system means that there is no way to control the ship and several scenes revolve around trying to do something to slow down, stop, or change directions, most of which either don't work because it's a damned huge ship or because Geiger sabotages things once he figures out what the heroes are trying to do.
* SequelEscalation: ''Speed 2'' upgrades the premise from "Bomb on a Bus" to "Bomb on a Cruise Ship". Minus Keanu.
* SequelGoesForeign: The movie takes place in the Caribbean.
* ShoePhone: Geiger concealed the majority of his kit for mayhem (miniature bombs and computer equipment for hacking the ship) inside of his golf gear.
* ShootTheTelevision: Alex enjoys shooting [[OminousMultipleScreens enlarged Geiger]] [[MoreDakka with his shotgun...]]
* SlasherSmile: Geiger is played by Willem Dafoe. It probably would be easier to count the times he ''doesn't'' gives one.
* StuffBlowingUp: Just like in the first movie, a hijacked vehicle crashes into a much larger sitting vehicle, resulting in a much bigger explosion. In this case, Geiger's plane flying into an oil tanker.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Alex to Jack. It's obvious that the absolute bare minimum was done to edit the script when Keanu Reeves refused to do the film.
* TelevisuallyTransmittedDisease: Geiger, a computer programmer, claims that he contracted copper poisoning from his prolonged time around computers. Given that he "treats" this condition by sticking ''leeches'' on his chest, it's obvious that he's as granola as California --a nut, a fruit, and a flake.
* TerminallyIllCriminal: The BigBad John Geiger has a fatal disease and uses the time he has left to get revenge on the people he has a grudge against.
* WomenDrivers: Annie had a sarcastic one-liner about how she lost her driver's license because of [[{{Irony}} speeding]] in the first film, but she was a BadassDriver regardless. [[{{Flanderization}} In this film]], in the little time she drives a car in the BookEnds (while trying pass the test to get back said license), her brand of DrivesLikeCrazy is an AttentionDeficitOohShiny [[TheDitz Ditz]] that terrifies the DMV man forced to sit at her side [[OhNoNotAgain a second time]].

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