While American Psycho had moments of stylish humor and featured a pitch-perfect performance from Christian Bale, it suffered from occasional incoherence and thematic strands that failed to resonate with the film's overall tone. American Psycho II: All American Girl fixes those problems at the expense of ambition. Gone is the sly, subversive satire derived from Bret Easton Ellis' source novel. Gone also are the mockingly accurate soundtrack and the outstanding supporting cast that included Reese Witherspoon, Willem Dafoe, and Jared Leto. Instead, American Psycho II gives us Robin Dunne, Geraint Wyn-Davies, and William Shatner. Worst of all, Bale has been replaced by television sitcom actress Mila Kunis who wanders through the film as though she's doing a screen test for a remake of Heathers. What few good moments the film has comes from the reliable Shatner, here nicely underplaying against the manufactured intensity of his co-stars. While the actors are forced to pretend otherwise, the audience should be several scenes ahead the ploddingly linear screenplay, including the trite coda with the not-so-surprising surprise. Comedies about serial killers are nothing new -- the Broadway play version of +Arsenic and Old Lace with Boris Karloff debuted in 1941 -- and that lack of newness is a major problem for American Psycho II: All American Girl. If you're looking for a witty, urbane serial-killer movie, try the sophistication of 1949's Kind Hearts and Coronets, or for good laughs and a bit more suspense, the 1996 postmodern classic Scream.