Mookuthi Amman 2 movie review and rating: I am fairly sure someone on the writing team came across an astrology retrograde explainer on the internet, saw phrases like “planetary alignment”, “dormant energy returning” and “things from the past resurfacing”, and decided that was a screenplay. Because Mookuthi Amman 2 is literally the concept of retrograde turned into a movie. Evil that has been buried for 2,000 years? Retrograde. It resurfaces when the planets align? Retrograde. The past catches up with the present in ways nobody asked for? Retrograde. The film feels like an astrology Instagram post stretched to two and a half hours. Everything about this film is in reverse, except Nayanthara, who is the only thing moving forward.

The sequel has no narrative connection to the first film Mookuthi Amman (2020). This is an entirely new story in which Nayanthara plays an ordinary police officer who begins experiencing recurring nightmares involving a mysterious village called Mailanji.…