Too polished...not gritty like the 1st

Ageed, with the exception of the the very brief Paxton story at the start, the rest of Hostel II is exactly the same as Hostel but with female characters.
3 friends travelling around Western Europe.
2 very close friends and 1 who is not close to either of the other 2
Mysterious stranger advises the 3 friends to go to the Hostel in Slovakia
Friend who is not close to the other 2 goes missing first
Sex fueled friend goes next
People involved with Elite Hunting Club say that they will help the one remaining friend to find the others and then abduct them like the other 2.
Not close friend and sex fuled friend both die, the other one lives.
The surviving friend kills a member of Elite Hunting Club.
Very lazy Mr Roth, obviously writing the 'shock' scenes took up too much of your time.



Free to those that can afford it, very expensive to those that can't.

Same thing happened with The Collector and The Collection.

Roth (or the producers/studio) made a big mistake by deciding the film should be so damn ugly visually, unlike the first film's classic realistic look all the more effective for it. Viewers ought to be given an option of how to watch it, all films should really; non-graded original camera photography (you get a taste of that in the DVD extras before most of the added limited fake colors). This is important to film fans and their enjoyment of films so studios should listen, dammit. In short; get their act together and get back to realism with watchable products in real cinematic tradition. This crap is just silly. The industry's post-production uniform color craze was really bad around this time (and still is), here it really hurt the film's effects making them almost impossible to see because this tinkering seemed more important to the filmmakers resulting in the f/x being lost in the smeary mess. The film is nowhere near as good as the first film, but enough is enough with the post nonsense correcting this would certainly go a long way in one's opinion of it.