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Post by vinnyt on Oct 18, 2019 4:29:14 GMT
Considering how low my expectations were for a 10 year sequel to a comedy considering the track record of Bad Santa 2 and Dumb and Dumber to or w/e, I actually really dug it. It was funny and managed to be nothing but fan service without being annoying. A great sequel that expands on everything without feeling like it answered questions that no one asked (except they try to explain why there's still electricity which I could have lived without)
Does make me wonder if Abigail Breslin really even has a career.
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Post by jakesully on Oct 19, 2019 0:56:17 GMT
I too came away pleasantly surprised by this sequel. It was entertaining thru out and I dug the duo of Luke Wilson/dorky dude from that HBO comedy as well. His name escapes me right now but it was funny watching him and Eisenberg interact. 7/10
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Oct 19, 2019 17:38:51 GMT
My two main takeaways:
1. This film continues to confirm what a terrific comic actress Emma Stone is.
2. Jesse Eisenberg does not age.
Overall, this was reasonably entertaining even if it's not all that memorable... there are worse ways to spend an hour and forty minutes. I thought the bizarro versions of Eisenberg and Harrelson's characters were funny, and Zoey Deutch was a great addition.
This is the first time I've seen Breslin in a while, but does anyone else think her voice sounds uncannily like Scarlett Johansson's?
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Post by Pavan on Oct 24, 2019 12:49:57 GMT
Nothing new or unique about it but i had fun thanks to the cast and their chemistry and some funny one liners. It's better they don't make third one unless they go in a completely new direction- 6/10
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Post by Martin Stett on Sept 10, 2020 23:18:48 GMT
The original is one of my all time favorites, but it didn't need a sitcom redo. The first movie worked because it was a comedy that played on the loneliness and desperation of its characters, and every laugh had a dagger hidden inside of it. This is one-note and annoying.
But I do appreciate that this movie hates Berkeley. Tallahassee's utter disdain for that city was definitely the highlight.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Sept 10, 2020 23:26:56 GMT
The original is one of my all time favorites, but it didn't need a sitcom redo. The first movie worked because it was a comedy that played on the loneliness and desperation of its characters, and every laugh had a dagger hidden inside of it. This is one-note and annoying. But I do appreciate that this movie hates Berkeley. Tallahassee's utter disdain for that city was definitely the highlight. I just saw this like 5 days ago....... dang we're synced. Thought it was really good for a sequel expected to be bad, with a 10 year break in the middle. I agree the characters were no longer desperate and lonely. But they seemed more like zombie killing experts and more.... settled in their lives and stronger now. Dunno.... just had a sense of "we came and conquered" to it and that's what I liked about it. I thought it beat Toy Story 4 by a mile... the other sequel with a long break in 2019. That movie just no longer felt like a Toy Story anymore, or a Pixar for that matter.
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Post by Martin Stett on Sept 11, 2020 0:32:29 GMT
The original is one of my all time favorites, but it didn't need a sitcom redo. The first movie worked because it was a comedy that played on the loneliness and desperation of its characters, and every laugh had a dagger hidden inside of it. This is one-note and annoying. But I do appreciate that this movie hates Berkeley. Tallahassee's utter disdain for that city was definitely the highlight. I just saw this like 5 days ago....... dang we're synced. Thought it was really good for a sequel expected to be bad, with a 10 year break in the middle. I agree the characters were no longer desperate and lonely. But they seemed more like zombie killing experts and more.... settled in their lives and stronger now. Dunno.... just had a sense of "we came and conquered" to it and that's what I liked about it. I thought it beat Toy Story 4 by a mile... the other sequel with a long break in 2019. That movie just no longer felt like a Toy Story anymore, or a Pixar for that matter. I adored TS4. It was an epilogue that changes the "purpose" of Woody. It was always wrapped up in Andy, and I loved seeing him come to a new way of seeing things. Gabby Gabby is also the greatest character in the franchise. Aaaand not feeling like Pixar anymore is a good thing, although I think it still stuck pretty close to the Pixar buddy formula that has been strangling them for twenty-five years. All in all, the second best Pixar film behind WALL-E. I don't really see any character evolution in Z2. They're settled and professional and... boooooring. But they're still okay, their interactions are still decently entertaining. Unfortunately, there's all this needless sitcom humor of the doppelgangers and Madison (oh how I hate Madison) and... weed? Really, weed jokes in 2019? This feels like it was supposed to be on ABC in the mid-2000s... which it was IIRC, but the pilot got rejected and they turned it into a movie. I guess that this is a glimpse of the alternate universe where the show ran for ten seasons with a forced laugh track cuing the two viewers into what is funny.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Sept 11, 2020 3:49:28 GMT
Me watching this movie after being pretty excited it was on:
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Post by cheesecake on Sept 12, 2020 16:13:18 GMT
Me watching this movie after being pretty excited it was on: Yeah, I barely got through it.
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