SAN FRANCISO ? If you?re expecting some answers from this sequel to last year’s smash hit, “The Blair Witch,” you better pack up your bags and head to Burkittsville, Maryland and do your own research.

This movie starts off clever enough at first because it?s really a movie about a movie. The characters in “The Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows,” directed by Joe Berlinger, take off on a Blair Witch Hunt Tour started by a guy named Jeff who is obsessed with the Blair Witch Project film. Jeff keeps on having these flashbacks about when he was in the “hospital”?ahh?the loony bin, for reasons that are never explained.

I?m not going to bore you with all the details about the five people that go into the woods on the Blair Witch Hunt Tour. I will only tell you that they go to the ruins of the house of the murderer from the first film and camp out, get really drunk, smoke a bunch of pot and wake up the next day and can’t remember what happened?Big surprise there.

They spend the rest of the movie trying to figure out what happened and this is the crux of the plot.

The movie is better than the first mainly because it is a movie and has an awesome soundtrack and sweeping helicopter camera shots. This movie is like a long music video and is gory and titillating. The way the film is edited is pretty cool, the use of flashbacks and other techniques.

It is scary in the way traditional horror movies are scary (i.e. “Friday the 13th,” “Halloween,” “Nightmare on Elm Street,” etc?), young, good-looking people getting drunk, high, naked, and terrorized.

The movie is like a Twinkie; it tastes good, but it’s not very filling. If you’re looking to be entertained and not really concerned about the plausibility of the events (or the entire plot of the film) you will most likely be entertained.

Joe Bob would love this flick for the aardvarking and breasts. I give it 3 Sinatras.