A Quiet Place Part II finally hits theaters over a year after announcing it would premiere and then promptly being postponed. The 15 months of silent observance are almost over for those of you who have faithfully followed your vow of silence.
John Krasinski returns to direct and write A Quiet Place Part II, a continuation of the 2018 horror film. The blind monsters with hypersensitive hearing still stalk the Abbott family, who must remain deadly silent in order to survive. Evelyn Emily Blunt now has a newborn baby and no father to help her, since her husband Krasinski passed away in the first film. Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe will make it out alive this time? You’ll have to see the movie to find out, but it probably has something to do with Cillian Murphy, who joins the cast as Emmett, a former family friend.
Watch Now: A Quiet Place Part 2
Some of you may be wondering if A Quiet Place Part II will be on streaming this week, given that so many theatrical releases have moved to streaming services during the pandemic. Read on to find out where to watch A Quiet Place Part 2 and when A Quiet Place Part 2 will be on streaming.
How can you watch A Quiet Place Part II?
You can watch A Quiet Place Part II on Paramount+ when it is released in mid-July. Paramount+, the new streaming service from ViacomCBS, is an expansion of the CBS All Access service that offers access to a wide library of content as well as new streaming series and shows. Paramount+ is available in the United States and parts of Latin America, with plans to distribute to Canada and Australia later this year.
Paramount+ is home to content from CBS, BET, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, MTV, Paramount Pictures, Smithsonian Channel, and TV Land, as well as original content that’s new to the platform. You can stream Paramount films like Indiana Jones and Mission Impossible as well as new series like 60 Minutes Plus and No Activity, and upcoming projects like the untitled Avatar: The Last Airbender series, the iCarly reboot, Star Trek: Prodigy, and more.
What is A Quiet Place Part II about?
In A Quiet Place, Blunt and Krasinski (who are married in real life) play parents Evelyn and Lee Abbott, desperate to protect their children from the looming threat of the sinister creatures that have destroyed most of Earth’s population by hunting their prey through sound. Millicent Simmonds plays Regan Abbott, Evelyn and Lee’s deaf daughter, and Noah Jupe plays Marcus Abbott, their young son. John Krasinski directed the first film and returned to direct its sequel, A Quiet Place Part II.
In the sequel, the Abbott family is on the move, aided by Emmett, a friend of Lee’s played by Cillian Murphy, who helps them make their way to a group of people who are still living. In the final trailer for the film, the same suspenseful motif of silence persists. The Paramount Pictures film was released in theaters on June 4, 2021, and you can stream the film when it has its online release to Paramount+ on July 12, 2021.
Watch Now: A Quiet Place Part 2
IS A QUIET PLACE PART 2 ON STREAMING AT ALL?
Not yet, but it will be soon. Earlier this year, Paramount Pictures, the studio behind A Quiet Place, announced a plan to shorten the theatrical release of its biggest upcoming titles—including A Quiet Place Part II and Mission Impossible 7—to 45 days. After that 45-day window, the films will head to Paramount+, the streaming service formerly known as CBS All Access.
WHEN WILL A QUIET PLACE PART 2 BE ON PARAMOUNT PLUS?
Paramount has not yet announced an official release date for A Quiet Place Part II on Paramount+. However, based on the release date and the 45-day theatrical window, we can reasonably guess that A Quiet Place Part II will be on Paramount+ in mid-July, sometime around July 12, 2021.
WHERE TO WATCH A QUIET PLACE:
If you’re looking to watch the first A Quiet Place movie, you can buy or rent the film on Amazon Prime, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play, or wherever you buy and rent movies. You can also stream the film with a subscription to Fubo TV.
A Quiet Place Part II Review and Story
Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Movies need endings, but franchises need cliffhangers, and “A Quiet Place Part II” is emblematic of this problem. The first “A Quiet Place” (2018) gave us a beautifully tragic finale, one that emphasized the story’s core themes of human resilience and familial devotion. It was almost perfect, and it could have been enough.
The film’s unexpected success, however, gave Paramount Pictures other ideas. And while this new installment is, like its predecessor, wonderfully acted and intuitively directed it has also largely replaced the hushed horror of the original with full-on action. Faster, coarser and far noisier, “Part II” sacrifices emotional depth for thriller setups that do less to advance the plot than grow the younger characters.
A tensely orchestrated opening rewinds to Day 1 of the alien invasion as Lee and Evelyn Abbott and their three children enjoy a small-town Little League game. Once again employing a combination of terrifying visual effects and unsettling sound design, Krasinski and his team build a sequence of kinetic chaos that serves as both prologue to the first movie and primer for those who unwisely skipped it.
Catapulted to Day 474, mere minutes after the earlier film’s devastating conclusion, we find the remaining family members — including the newborn whose birth was a petrifying highlight of the previous installment — seeking shelter with a former neighbor, Emmett (Cillian Murphy), in an abandoned mill. Emmett, withdrawn and bereaved, is a less than congenial host. Nevertheless, when Evelyn’s daughter, Regan (still played to perfection by the deaf actor Millicent Simmonds), sneaks off to follow a radio signal she believes indicates other survivors, he agrees to follow and bring her home.
Splitting the film into two separate story lines, Krasinski strains to replicate the bonding that gave “A Quiet Place” its heart — scenes of tender domesticity that paused the horror and allowed us to exhale. And while the remainder of “Part II” never quite rises to the vigor and excitement of its prologue, its action-movie commitments leave little room for the characters to mourn their losses. So as we follow Regan and Emmett’s sometimes harrowing adventures; watch her injured brother, Marcus, fight to protect the baby back at the steel mill; and worry about Evelyn as she scavenges for oxygen and medical supplies, “Part II” becomes primarily a story of children forced to grow up too fast and see too much.
The aliens themselves, though, remain unfathomable, wanting nothing more than to eradicate us. (An idea that now, more than a year after the film’s original release date, feels uncomfortably metaphorical.) We know that they’re blind, navigate by sound, and that the feedback from Regan’s cochlear implant gives them the heebie-jeebies. But what do they eat? Are there baby beasties? Show me the nests!
Though in many respects an exemplary piece of filmmaking, “Part II” remains hobbled by a script that resolves two separate crises while leaving the movie itself in limbo. At least until Part III.