TUBI ORIGINALS: Rock the Boat 2 (2024)

I say it with every movie he releases, but Chris Stokes is the best creator of all of the Tubi Originals.

When I saw Rock the Boat last year, I wrote that  it had “an ending that teases a sequel that knowing Stokes, Houston and Tubi that I feel sure that we will receive.”

He did not do me wrong.

After the end of the last movie — in which not only a boat blows up but there’s a car crash that gets replayed many times in this — Millie Barnes (Parker McKenna) has lost her memory and has nightmares of whatever happened in the past.

This doesn’t waste any time being a remix of I Know What You Did Last Summer, as Channel (Janina Gordillo) and Sommer (Iyana Halley) go over what happened in the first film, only to end with Sommer going to work at a dive bar — despite being a rich girl — and Channel opening a pizza with a sinister note before she’s murdered.

Millie works in marketing along with Halle (Katlynn Simone) who seems to take a sisterly interest in her. Keep that in mind. Millie is being constantly questioned by Detectives Jacobs (Jarell Houston) and Daniels (Judi Johnson), wondering what has happened to her boyfriend Kaleb (Marc John Jeffries) and how his father Mr. Weber may have be behind not just what happened on the boat but he also may have murdered Millie’s parents Eric and Tracy.

To get away from it all, Millie decides to go visit her grandmother Paula (Loretta Devine), who is probably the most important citizen in her beach town. Despite being told that this is party central, no one is here, the club is closed — other than a bartender, Captain Keller (Steven Littles) and Paula’s servant Greg (Dwight Boyce) — and things are dead. It’s like this movie skipped right to I Still Know What You Did Last Summer as Halle, Millie, Durell (Ozie Nzeribe), Sophia (Zonnique) and Todd (Justin Sweat) all get notes letting them know that someone knows what they’ve done.

Oh man, how can you even explain what happens next? There are multiple secret siblings, an aunt named Olga (Carnetta Jones) who can do the Get Out spoon hypnosis to people, a grandmother who goes completely mental and another ending that promises another movie as this ends with Detective Jacobs (Jarell Houston) saying he has people in Miami and Millie brainwashed yet again as Olga does the mental magic and her grandmother laughs for a full minute.

To Chris Stokes and his co-writer Marques Houston, please hurry with the next one. And if The Stepmother is in it too and you build to an Avengers: Endgame of your many Tubi Originals, you will make me more than overjoyed.

You can watch this on Tubi.

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