How the first film (which was fücking terrible) ever made enough money to warrant a sequel is beyond me.
But a sequel we got and what a stinking pile of salty anus gravy it was.
Just dumb as fück. The magic is laughable and the plot moronic.
Even homunculus Harry Potter couldn't save this bubbling pot of boiled monkey jizz.
It was incredibly oversimplified and blinged with flashy colors every corner. To appeal to the younger audience of course!:)
shareTo appeal to the younger audience of course!:)
Agree and agree and agree some more!
shareYou've put it in particularly eloquent terms stronger than I, but yeah...this series of films is just a dreadful caper film masquerading as something intelligent/clever. The magic doesn't hold up. The plot doesn't hold up. It's nonsense.
That scene where Eisenberg's character makes the rain go back up again and at the end it's quickly explained away like 'oh it was just an illusion with some sprinklers and some strobe lights have a nice day' was absolutely ludicrous. On the face of it things like that and Dave Franco disappearing in a cloud of cards (a cloud with clearly hundreds more cards than he ever had in his hand by the way) look cool for the first second and fall down immediately when you realize how stupid they are.
I'd also add that the triple-threat of Jesse Eisenberg, Dave Franco and Lizzie Caplin all being in one film is too much 'whiny and annoying' for anyone but then I'm being mean. Personal preference I suppose.
Thank God!!
I came to this message board solely to read other people laughing at how bad this movie was, and was only seeing people talk about how they liked it...
This movie is so horrible. Not even the "magic" can save it, because some jack-ass decided to make it all over the top cgi?.. At least if they would of done some new special fx "real" magic tricks. Ya know, the kind that could actually be done in the real world. So bad..
you hated the first (which was actually quite fun in a silly way, harmless way) yet you watched the sequel, which I agree with you was atrocious...seems like you got what you asked for.
shareAgreed. I thought the first one was a little stupid, but at least OK. This was just...horrible. Like some of the worst laziest writing I have ever seen in cinematic history. To the point that...I didn't even care what happened anymore and just wanted the movie to end. The plot was almost as bad as "John Wick".
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