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owlectomyHonestly, I don't understand the bad reviews.
Leaving aside the fact that it doesn't have an ending, this movie has all the virtues and vices of the original; lots of exciting set pieces and visual gags and general hawtness hung on a fairly perfunctory plot. And I loved every minute of it. Actually I may have liked it better than the original; there were more things I didn't expect.
Except that... it's not a good idea to put every idea you have into a movie. Usually that's because only a small portion of your ideas are good. But if you happen to have 150 minutes worth of good ideas, it still might not be a good idea to cram all of them into a movie, if only for the sake of the poor girl stupid enough to buy that trough of soda that gets called a "medium," who doesn't want to take her eyes off the movie for five minutes under any circumstances.
And if you have 150 minutes worth of ideas, uh, maybe you should think twice about throwing in some cannibals. 'Cause that was awkward.
At least I knew, going into it, that it didn't have an ending.
I bet Orlando Bloom isn't used to being the least pretty main character.
Leaving aside the fact that it doesn't have an ending, this movie has all the virtues and vices of the original; lots of exciting set pieces and visual gags and general hawtness hung on a fairly perfunctory plot. And I loved every minute of it. Actually I may have liked it better than the original; there were more things I didn't expect.
Except that... it's not a good idea to put every idea you have into a movie. Usually that's because only a small portion of your ideas are good. But if you happen to have 150 minutes worth of good ideas, it still might not be a good idea to cram all of them into a movie, if only for the sake of the poor girl stupid enough to buy that trough of soda that gets called a "medium," who doesn't want to take her eyes off the movie for five minutes under any circumstances.
And if you have 150 minutes worth of ideas, uh, maybe you should think twice about throwing in some cannibals. 'Cause that was awkward.
At least I knew, going into it, that it didn't have an ending.
I bet Orlando Bloom isn't used to being the least pretty main character.