Editing Final Destination 2 (section)

==Production==
===Development===
''[[Final Destination (film)|Final Destination]]'', the first film, was conceived by writers [[Jeffrey Reddick]], [[James Wong (filmmaker)|James Wong]], and [[Glen Morgan]] from ''Flight 180'', a [[spec script]] intended for use in ''[[The X-Files]]''. The film premiered across the United States and Canada on March 17, 2000, grossing $10,015,822 on its opening weekend and an overall gross of $112,880,294 internationally.<ref name="OneWeekend">{{cite web |title=Weekend Box Office Results for March 17–19, 2000 |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2000W11/ |work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=April 1, 2020 }}</ref><ref name="OneInternational">{{cite web |title=''Final Destination'' (2000) |work=[[Box Office Mojo]] |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=finaldestination.htm |access-date=February 3, 2010}}</ref> The film's success inspired [[New Line Cinema]] then-President of Production [[Toby Emmerich]] to approach Reddick for a sequel, to which he responded positively.<ref name="Disgusting" /> Reddick asserted that he "wanted to expand on the mythology and not just tell the same story over again".<ref name="Disgusting" /> Wong and Morgan were not available for production since they had already signed on their respective projects ''[[The One (2001 film)|The One]]'' and ''[[Willard (2003 film)|Willard]]''.<ref name="Mania">{{cite web |last=Mania |first=Mania:Beyond Entertainment |title=James Wong Talks Movie Projects |work=Mania:Beyond Entertainment |url=http://www.mania.com/james-wong-talks-movie-projects_article_30832.html |access-date=May 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208215724/http://www.mania.com/james-wong-talks-movie-projects_article_30832.html |archive-date=February 8, 2009}}</ref> Instead, New Line hired second unit director and stunt coordinator [[David R. Ellis]] as director and writing partners [[Eric Bress]] and [[J. Mackye Gruber]] as co-writers.<ref name="Muze" /><ref name="FeoAmante">{{cite web |date=August 3, 2011 |first=E.C. |last=McMullen Jr. |title=FINAL DESTINATION 2 movie review |work=FeoAmante |url=http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/DEF/Final_Dest/FD2.html |access-date=May 4, 2020 }}</ref>

"Second unit is like an extension of directing, you're doing big action sequences on film and it was just something I was going after. Once I got the offer from New Line and we got a good script, it was kind of a natural transition," Ellis professed.<ref name="Ellis">{{cite web |last=Joblo |first=The Arrow |title=The Arrow interviews...David R. Ellis! |work=The Arrow |url=https://www.joblo.com/arrow/interview51.htm |access-date=May 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309175201/http://www.joblo.com/arrow/interview51.htm |archive-date=March 9, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Threat 2">{{cite web |last=Film Threat |title=''Final Destination 2'': No Crash Landing |url=https://www.filmthreat.com/interviews/508/ |access-date=May 5, 2012}}</ref> "I wanted our film to be able to stand alone but I watched ''Final Destination'' to see what they did that was so successful. I tried to use some of that while trying to keep a stand-alone feel for our movie. I kind of took what worked and tried to improve on it," Ellis added.<ref name="Ellis" /><ref name="Threat 2" /> "We wanted to take what the first film did effectively, and add levels and layers that would come out through the characters. When we first started writing this, we were trying to think, 'How can we make Death just a total badass?' and to be perfectly honest, the first crack we ever took at this script had to be reined in!" Bress uncovered.<ref name="Culture">{{cite web |last=Culture.com |title=''Final Destination 2'': Production Notes |url=http://culture.com/articles/1804/final-destination-2-production-notes.phtml |access-date=May 5, 2012 |archive-date=January 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124195716/http://culture.com/articles/1804/final-destination-2-production-notes.phtml |url-status=dead }}</ref> On the other hand, producers Craig Perry and Warren Zide from Zide/Perry Productions also returned and helped on financing the film,<ref name="Disgusting" /><ref name="Perry">{{cite web |last=Joblo |first=The Arrow |title=The Arrow interviews...Craig Perry! |work=The Arrow |url=https://www.joblo.com/arrow/interview52.htm |access-date=May 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309175141/http://www.joblo.com/arrow/interview52.htm |archive-date=March 9, 2013}}</ref> with Perry stating, "We could have made no other movies and the first one still would have been a satisfying experience. But when we were given the opportunity to make a sequel, we jumped at it."<ref name="Disgusting">{{cite web |last=The Collective |first=Bloody Disgusting |title=Special Feature ''Final Destination'': Not So Final After All! |work=[[Bloody Disgusting]] |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/25828/special-feature-final-destination-not-so-final-after-all/ |access-date=May 3, 2012 |date=August 12, 2011}}</ref>

===Casting===
[[File:Final Destination 2 Survivors.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.36|The film's main cast: (from left to right) [[A. J. Cook]] as [[Kimberly Corman]], James Kirk as Tim Carpenter, [[Lynda Boyd]] as Nora Carpenter, [[Michael Landes]] as Thomas Burke, Jonathan Cherry as Rory Peters, [[Terrence C. Carson]] as Eugene Dix, and [[Keegan Connor Tracy]] as Kat Jennings. Absent from the cast shot are [[Ali Larter]] as [[Clear Rivers]] and [[David Paetkau]] as Evan Lewis.]]
{{main|List of Final Destination characters#Introduced in Final Destination 2|l1=List of characters in ''Final Destination 2''}}
One of the prior film's main characters, [[Alex Browning]] ([[Devon Sawa]]), was killed off-screen in the film.<ref name="FeoAmante" /><ref name="Ellis" /><ref name="Film Threat">{{cite web |last=Film Threat |title=''Final Destination 2'': No Crash Landing |url=https://www.filmthreat.com/interviews/507/#ixzz1qMXAv0HO |access-date=March 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222213457/https://www.filmthreat.com/interviews/507/#ixzz1qMXAv0HO |archive-date=February 22, 2014}}</ref> Rumors indicated that Sawa had a contract dispute with New Line concerning the deduction of his salary;<ref name="FeoAmante" /><ref name="Perry" /> however, Perry resolved the issue with the statement that "it had everything to do with narrative, and nothing to do with money or Devon's unwillingness to come back."<ref name="Film Threat" /> Despite this, New Line reinstated [[Ali Larter]] to reprise her character as [[Clear Rivers]].<ref name="IGNUK">{{cite web |last=B. |first=Scott |title=An Interview with Ali Larter |url=http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/384/384146p1.html |access-date=May 5, 2012|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311105156/http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/384/384146p1.html |archive-date=March 11, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Cast">{{cite web |title=''Final Destination 2'' Cast List |work=[[Yahoo! Movies]] |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/final-destination-2/credits.html |access-date=April 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309051040/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/final-destination-2/credits.html |archive-date=March 9, 2013}}</ref> "When New Line asked me to come back, I thought it was great. They showed me the script and let me have some input, and it was really terrific," Larter revealed.<ref name="IGNUK" /> Larter indicated that Clear "[has] gotten to a hardened place and tucked herself inside because she has felt so much pain in her life. By having herself committed to a mental hospital, she has created a safehouse so that Death can't get her."<ref name="Culture" /><ref name="IGNUK" /> [[Tony Todd]] also resumed his character as mortician [[William Bludworth]].<ref name="Ellis" /><ref name="Film Threat" /> "It's the same character that we saw before that the audience loved", Ellis expressed.<ref name="Ellis" />

The role of [[Kimberly Corman]] was given to Canadian actress [[A. J. Cook]], who previously starred in the 1999 film ''[[The Virgin Suicides (film)|The Virgin Suicides]]''.<ref name="Cast" /> Cook described her role as "a very strong girl, very determined because her mother died a year earlier, right in front of her eyes, so she had to grow up quick". Ellis described her role as "a girl who can have some fun cause they're going on a trip and they're gonna have a good time, yet someone who can stand up to Clear, to come and challenge Clear on a race, and to bother with Clear".<ref name="Casting">{{cite video |people=David R. Ellis |title=''Final Destination 2'': Cheating Death Beyond and Back |medium=Videotape/DVD |publisher=New Line Cinema |location=New York, US}}</ref> Cook added that "it's so rare to find one strong female lead in a horror film, not to mention two [Larter]."<ref name="Film Threat" /><ref name="Cook">{{cite web |last=Joblo |first=The Arrow |title=The Arrow interviews...A. J. Cook! |work=The Arrow |url=https://www.joblo.com/arrow/interview53.htm |access-date=May 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130127015657/http://www.joblo.com/arrow/interview53.htm |archive-date=January 27, 2013}}</ref> Ellis and Perry were amazed by her sensitivity and vulnerability in her performance, and she was hired instantly. "[We] were at the beginning of what's going to be a long successful career for her", Perry cited.<ref name="Casting" /><ref name="Disc" />

[[Michael Landes]], who appeared in the TV series ''[[Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman]]'', was cast as Thomas Burke.<ref name="Cast" /> Landes defined him as "a real nice, decent guy who comes across this huge car accident [and] who is very intrigued to begin with" and as "the guy who bumps into the girl and he goes nuts as her protector".<ref name="Film Threat" /><ref name="Landes">{{cite web |last=Joblo |first=The Arrow |title=The Arrow interviews...Michael Landes! |work=The Arrow |url=https://www.joblo.com/arrow/interview54.htm |access-date=May 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126222148/http://www.joblo.com/arrow/interview54.htm |archive-date=January 26, 2013}}</ref> Ellis pointed out that he "just wanted to find someone who's young and who can relate to these kids. It wasn't an older guy, but still strong enough and yet sensitive. [Landes] brought this really good balance to his part."<ref name="Disc" /> Landes was cast a day after his audition, which caused flight schedule problems on his departure two days after and cancellation of his appointments.<ref name="Casting" /><ref name="Landes" />

Former ''[[Living Single]]'' star [[Terrence C. Carson]] was hired as Eugene Dix.<ref name="Cast" /> Carson identified his role as "a very by-the-book type of person but soon has a change of heart as the corpses begin to pile up".<ref name="Culture" /> The crew was enticed of Carson's casting, with Bress mentioning how his "originally envisioned [[Woody Allen]]-type of character has got ten more times life than it ever had. It's got ten times the personality, this charisma that T.C. brings to it... he's just such a great presence." Similarly, Perry was astonished by how Carson "can take the most absurd lines and deliver them in such grammatized form with his eyes and his deep rich speaking voice".<ref name="Casting" /> Jonathan Cherry, who recently emerged in the 2003 film ''[[House of the Dead (film)|House of the Dead]]'', was appointed as Rory Peters.<ref name="Cast" /> Cherry characterized Rory as "a very opposite of me whose arc goes from, 'I don't really care at all', to 'Oh my God, this is really happening!'"<ref name="Culture" />

In the script, Bress said that Rory was his favorite character to write since "he's great comic relief, he's got a drug problem, he's funny, and he's all that". Bress bragged that "Cherry is awesome, awesome casting cause he's just so funny and the way he delivers his lines. It's like 'Oh yeah. That's good! That's better!'" "What I think was surprising on him was that from all of the humor he's involved and his sort of itchiness that he has with Kat, there is some moments where he reveals how vulnerable he really is and so the shield comes down and right in there you're really becoming sympathetic to Rory. You like him at first cause he's the funny guy, but then you care about him because you realize that there's a place that humor comes from that we all share", Perry appended.<ref name="Casting" />

''[[Blackwoods (film)|Blackwoods]]'' actress [[Keegan Connor Tracy]] played Kat Jennings.<ref name="Cast" /> Tracy claimed that "[Kat] doesn't really buy it at first, but pretty soon even her cynical attitude can't ignore the truth of the situation they're all in."<ref name="Culture" /> Perry defined the role as "someone who is really so self-absorbed that without being overly malicious is incredibly rude and insensitive to the feelings of all those around her". Her casting was assessed by Perry as "full of energy" and "embodies the self-aware nervous energy of Kat. [Tracy] created a character that you kind of dislike intensely but you don't dislike so much that you don't understand why she is the way she is."<ref name="Casting" /><ref name="Disc" /> Rounding up the cast are [[Lynda Boyd]] (Rachel Todd in ''You, Me and the Kids'') as widow Nora Carpenter and James Kirk (Kyle Morgan in ''[[Once Upon a Christmas (film)|Once Upon a Christmas]]'') as her son Tim Carpenter, [[David Paetkau]] (Hunter Kerrigan in ''[[Just Deal]]'') as gambler Evan Lewis, [[Justina Machado]] (Vanessa Diaz in ''[[Six Feet Under (TV series)|Six Feet Under]]'') as pregnant Isabella Hudson, and [[Noel Fisher (actor)|Noel Fisher]] (Todd Tolanski of ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'') as farmer Brian Gibbons.<ref name="Cast" /> Novice actors [[Sarah Carter]], Alejandro Rae, and [[Shaun Sipos]] were hired as Kimberly's friends Shaina, Dano, and Frankie correspondingly.<ref name="Cast" /> [[Andrew Airlie]] portrayed Kimberly's father Michael Corman, while Enid-Raye Adams appeared as Dr. Ellen Kalarjian.<ref name="Cast" />

[[Mary Elizabeth Winstead]] auditioned for a role in the film because she was a fan of the first film but was not cast. She would later be cast as [[Wendy Christensen]] in ''[[Final Destination 3]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=At Death's Door: "Final Destination 3" Star Mary Elizabeth Winstead|url=http://www.amc.com/talk/2006/09/at-deaths-door|website=[[AMC Networks]]|accessdate=14 May 2025|archive-date=February 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202042125/http://www.amc.com/talk/2006/09/at-deaths-door|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Filming ===
[[File:OkanaganLake1.jpg|thumb|[[Okanagan Lake]] replaced [[Greenwood Lake, New York]], in the film for the lake sequence. The scene was shot in two different locations, the other in a private pool in [[Campbell River, British Columbia]].<ref name="Culture" />]]
Like the first film, the film was shot in and around [[Vancouver Island]] in 2002.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7cYk7ELI8Y | title=Premonição 2 - Cenas do Making OF | website=[[YouTube]] | date=May 4, 2012 }}</ref> "We know the area, we know the people up there and let's be honest, there's an enormous economic incentive to shoot there. We were very fortunate to get [unit production manager] [[Justis Greene]], who's been working as a line producer up there for 30 years and who was able to get us the best crew working in town right now. It was advantageous to us on so many levels, that it was just the right place to go for this movie," Perry stated as the reason for the film's production in [[British Columbia]].<ref name="Perry" /> [[British Columbia Highway 19]] was utilized as Route 23.<ref name="Landes" /> The [[Plaza of Nations]] was used as a stand-in for Ellis Medical Complex, the site of Tim's death.<ref name="Tours">{{cite web |last=VancouverSetTours.com |title=Vancouver Filming Locations - Film, TV, City Links, and more |url=http://www.vancouversettours.com/locations.htm |access-date=May 11, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120115164521/http://www.vancouversettours.com/locations.htm |archive-date=January 15, 2012}}</ref>

The farm and lake scenes were filmed in [[Campbell River, British Columbia|Campbell River]] and [[Okanagan Lake]] respectively, though it is depicted in [[Greenwood Lake, New York]].<ref name="Culture" /><ref name="Vancouver">{{cite web |last=Vancouver.com |title=The Best (and Worst) Movies Filmed in Vancouver |url=http://www.vancouver.com/movies/hollywood_north/vancouver_movies/ |access-date=May 11, 2012 |archive-date=January 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109092407/http://www.vancouver.com/movies/hollywood_north/vancouver_movies/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> "We shot part of it at the lake where it was 37° cold, which is beyond an ice cream headache. And the second stuff we shot in a big huge tank where we filmed all the underwater sequence, that was in a 93° pool," Landes clarified. Cook and Landes performed their own stunts in both sequences.<ref name="Cook" /><ref name="Landes" /> "My biggest fear is being trapped in a car underwater. So it was kind of cool to face my fear and all that," Cook divulged.<ref name="Cook" /> "We took a couple of lessons with a scuba guide to be comfortable being underwater and breathing off the regulator," Landes enunciated.<ref name="Landes" />

To avoid confusion with Larter and Carter, Cook was required to dye her hair brown for the role.<ref name="Braun">{{cite web |last=Braun |first=Liz |title=A. J. Cook's career starting to sizzle |work=CANOE -- Jam! Movies |date=January 31, 2003 |url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/C/Cook_AJ/2003/01/31/757391.html |access-date=April 9, 2012 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121206024437/http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/C/Cook_AJ/2003/01/31/757391.html |archive-date=December 6, 2012}}</ref> "I like being a chameleon. It opens you up for so much more in this work. You don't get [[Typecasting|typecast]]", Cook professed.<ref name="Braun" /> Landes also denied plots regarding Thomas and Kimberly's relationship. "It's kind of a protected relationship, more like a brother/sister thing than a love interest. They didn't want to go there, I guess. They did go that way in an earlier draft of the script but they didn't want it to seem like the cop is like lascivious or something. So what they have now, hopefully, is a little bit of chemistry and you get the idea that through tragedy something good will come. So it ends in an optimistic way, that maybe they can be together but there's no real love story", Landes articulated.<ref name="Landes" />

=== Effects ===
[[File:Rory Peters Death.jpg|thumb|right|A montage of the process in rendering the death scene of Rory (Cherry). In the first image, a wide-angle view of Campbell River is shot for background use in the final result. In the second image, a lifecast of Cherry is positioned against a [[green screen]] and severed in pieces. In the third image, the first and second image are [[Compositing|composited]] to be presented among the continuity of the film.<ref name="CG">{{cite web |last=CG Channel, Inc. |first=CG Channel.com |title=Interview with Jason Crosby: ''Final Destination 2'' |url=http://www.cgchannel.com/2003/01/interview-with-jason-crosby-final-destination-2/ |access-date=May 16, 2012}}</ref>]]Digital Dimension took charge of the [[visual effects]] of the film. CG supervisor Jason Crosby pointed out that their studio was mainly selected for the highway sequence after the crew realized real logs only bounced about an inch off the road when dropped from a logging truck. "They were concerned about how they would make the shot happen, not knowing if CG would work. The timing was great because we had just finished a test shot of our CG logs bouncing on the freeway. We sent a tape to Vancouver and after seeing it the crew was convinced that any of the log shots could be done with CG," Crosby indicated. "It began with R&D on the log dynamics. Scripts were written to help manage the dynamic simulations with real world numbers for gravity, density, etc. The results were remarkably similar to the original logs shot in Vancouver, a testament to the accuracy of the software and the data we had collected, however the logs still lacked the 'jumping through [[windshield]]s killer instinct' we were looking for. By tweaking the parameters, we coaxed the logs into a much livelier role."

Senior [[technical director]] James Coulter added creative 3D tracking on shots with fast pans, motion blur, and filters such as dust, mist, slabs of bark, broken chains, and other debris. [[Digital artist]] Edmund Kozin manipulated high resolution photos which were carefully stitched together to achieve realistic texture amongst the 22 CG logs of the film. Hair shaders were also used for splintering and frayed wood looks for the logs. [[Physics]] such as speed and height of the logging truck, length and width of the logs, type of wood and density of a [[Douglas-fir]] were also considered.<ref name="CG" />

In spite of this, there are no CG cars incorporated in the actual film. "It was a possibility in the beginning so we did some dynamics tests using the logs as rigid bodies to hit cars with soft body deformers on them, but when they were done shooting they didn't end up needing any CG cars," Crosby avowed.<ref name="CG" /> Lifecasts of the actors were also used for all of the death scenes, including the highway setting.<ref name="Landes" /><ref name="CG" /> Landes experienced [[claustrophobia]] during the procedure.<ref name="Landes" /> [[Fake blood]] was also used, but CG blood was also shown.<ref name="CG" />

===Music===

====Soundtrack====
Like its predecessor, no official album accompanied the motion picture; however, there are ten songs featured in the film itself and two music videos embedded in its subsequent home release.<ref name="Ezy">{{cite news |last=Ezy Properties Limited |first=Ezy DVD Australia |title=''Final Destination 2'' |url=http://www.ezydvd.com.au/DVD/final-destination-2/dp/223590 |access-date=May 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103153037/http://www.ezydvd.com.au/DVD/final-destination-2/dp/223590 |archive-date=January 3, 2012}}</ref> Two singles of [[the Sounds]], "Dance with Me" and "Rock 'n Roll", were promoted on Kimberly's [[car stereo]].<ref name="Songs">{{cite news |last=Music from Film |first=Music From Film |title=Music from ''Final Destination 2'' |url=http://musicfromfilm.com/movies/finaldestination2.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110619020454/http://musicfromfilm.com/movies/finaldestination2.php |url-status=usurped |archive-date=June 19, 2011 |access-date=May 16, 2012}}</ref> Besides these, the music video of "Seven Days a Week" accompanied the film's DVD.<ref name="Ezy" /> "Middle of Nowhere" by [[the Blank Theory]] was both heard on Evan's car radio and inserted in the DVD along with its music video.<ref name="Ezy" /><ref name="Songs" /> "[[Rocky Mountain High]]" by [[John Denver]] was covered twice in the end credits by Pete Snell and Jude Christodal.<ref name="Songs" /> Christodal also performed "My Name is Death" during Brian's death and the end credits. Other songs integrated were "[[Highway to Hell (song)|Highway to Hell]]" by [[AC/DC]] (on Kimberly's car AV), "Jon F. Hennessy" by FT (on Rory's vehicle audio), "Vitamin" by [[Incubus (band)|Incubus]] (during Evan's house fire) and "I Got You" by [[(hed) Planet Earth]] (during Rory's party).<ref name="Songs" />

====Score====
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| type       = Film
| artist     = [[Shirley Walker]]
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| length     = 31:08
| label      = [[Warner Bros. Records]]
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| chronology = ''Final Destination'' soundtrack
| prev_title = [[Final Destination (score)|Final Destination: <br /> The Complete Original Motion Picture Score]]
| prev_year  = 2000
| next_title = [[The Final Destination#Music|The Final Destination <br /> (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)]]
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'''''Final Destination 2: Original Motion Picture Score''''' was the promotional film score conducted by [[Shirley Walker]].<ref name="Walker">{{cite web |last=United Press International, Inc. |first=UPI.com |title=Film composer Shirley Walker dies at 61 |url=http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2006/12/26/Film_composer_Shirley_Walker_dies_at_61/UPI-73801167184545/ |access-date=April 13, 2012}}</ref><ref name="FMS">{{cite web |last=The Film Music Society, Inc. |first=FMS |title=Shirley Walker: An Appreciation |url=http://www.filmmusicsociety.org/news_events/features/2006/120706.html?isArchive=120706 |access-date=April 13, 2012}}</ref><ref name="AICN">{{cite web |last=Steadfast Networks |first=Ain't It Cool News |title=Composer Shirley Walker Is Gone |url=https://www.aintitcool.com/node/30853 |access-date=May 17, 2012}}</ref> Though it was not officially released, it was made available alongside ''[[Willard (2003 film)|Willard]]: The Original Motion Picture Score'' on September 30, 2003.<ref name="Get" />

The score received positive reviews among commentators. Robert Koehler of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' applauded that "Shirley Walker's score displays a thorough understanding of horror jolts."<ref name="Koehler">{{cite web |date=November 4, 2007 |last=Koehler |first=Robert |title=''Final Destination 2'' Review |url=https://variety.com/review/VE1117919799 |access-date=May 18, 2020}}</ref> Pete Roberts of ''DVDActive'' admired the score as "top notch".<ref name="Roberts">{{cite web |last=DVDActive |title=Review: ''Final Destination 2'' (AU - DVD R4) |url=http://www.dvdactive.com/reviews/dvd/final-destination-23.html |access-date=May 18, 2012}}</ref> Anthony Horan of ''DVD.net Australia'' told readers to "crank up the volume and prepare for a sonic feast".<ref name="Horan">{{cite web |last=DVDNet |first=DVD.net Australia |title=''Final Destination 2'' - DVD Review |url=http://www.dvd.net.au/review.cgi?review_id=3080 |access-date=May 18, 2012}}</ref> Nonetheless, Chris Carle of ''[[IGN]] Movies'' noted that "while the score is nothing you'll remember, it gets the job done".<ref name="Carle">{{cite web |first=Chris |last=Carle |work=IGN Movies |title=''Final Destination 2'' |date=June 11, 2003 |url=http://dvd.ign.com/articles/423/423591p1.html |access-date=May 18, 2020}}</ref>