You Can Now Watch theSmile 2Opening Scene, but Only If You Record Yourself Smiling into the Camera

Mar. 15, 2025

Naomi Scott in ‘Smile 2’.Photo:Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Smile 2scared its way into theaters nearly three weeks ago, but fans of the movie — or theSmilecurious — can now watch the film’s first seven minutes online.

Paramount Pictures recently published the opening minutes of the movie on awebsitefor anyone over 18 to watch, so long as they smile into their phone or laptop camera for those entire seven minutes. The video pauses if the technology used senses that the viewer has stopped smiling, forcing interested audience members into participating in the horror franchise’s signature facial expression in order to see the film’s first scene.

When audience members stop smiling, the screen flashes red and eventually turns black, at which point a message appears on-screen: “Keep Smiling.”

‘Smile 2’ poster.Paramount Pictures

The new movie starsNaomi Scottas a pop star named Skye Riley, who “begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events” as she embarks on a world tour, according to an official synopsis from Paramount Pictures.Lukas Gage,Rosemarie DeWitt, Dylan Gelula,Ray Nicholsonand Raúl Castillo also costar, with Kyle Gallner as the first movie’s lone character to appear in the sequel.

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Ray Nicholson in ‘Smile 2’.Courtesy of Paramount Pictures

Courtesy of Paramount Pictures

“There are some ideas that I think are very exciting,” Finn toldSFXmagazineof the series' potential future in September.

He added, “I think it’s really fun to imagine a lineage ofSmilemovies where each one becomes more off the rails than the previous one. What’s really interesting aboutSmileis that you can find yourself in different stories, different characters, different worlds.”

Smile 2is in theaters now.

source: people.com