Essentially, they don't completely restart a franchise from scratch, but they do add in enough new elements to qualify as a reboot, while also maintaining a fair amount of the original characters to also be considered a sequel.
And for the majority of the runtime, this new Scream movie handles it fantastically well, mixing in some interesting new characters, tying them smartly to the survivors of the originals and some well-placed nods towards the other sequels within the series. It all seems to be adding up to something great... until the final act when things start to fall apart.We're not going to give too much away here, as even the trailers for the movie have been pretty stingy with actual plot details.
The younger cast members, including Melissa Barrera , Mason Gooding , Jenna Ortega , Jack Quaid , Dylan Minnette and Jasmin Savoy Brown all successfully manage to leave an impression, doing more than just being eventual knife fodder.