My ten year old leaned over halfway through and whispered "why isn't it as funny as the first one?". Lol, from the mouth of babes. I really enjoyed the first one,but this missed the mark.
share"Because you are expecting the same exact jokes as the last one and nothing original"
My kids enjoyed it as did I. Rarely is a movie as original as the first.
My seven year old daughter - who is a huge fan of the Rambo and Die Hard film series - was thrilled by the character Rex. However, towards the end when they did that whole thing with it was ok to be weak and useless like Emmett and that men like Rex were finished, she turned to me, with a small tear forming in her eye, and said "Daddy, why can't we even watch a simple cartoon without another ham fisted attempt to socially castrate the alpha male? What have we become?"
Am I wrong to feel proud?
Lol, if she really said that she should be our President some day. Did you answer her, "because the liberals have nothing if they don't use identity politics to intentionally divide our country for votes"?
shareI knew pretty early on that Red would turn out to be the film's villain.
It was almost a retread of another Chris Pratt film, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol: 2 (i.e. the apparent saviour turns out to be the real baddie) mixed with Ralph Breaks the Internet (i.e. the hero is also the villain).
But I think it's dumb to think that the film was anti-male. In fact, the film basically chastises Wyldstyle for trying to turn Emmett into something he never wanted to be. Emmett was cool being the funny, goofy, upbeat, sweet, positive "Everything Is Awesome" kind of guy. It was Wyldstyle who, foolishly, pushed him to have a more macho makeover.
So, in some ways one could argue that the film's message, far from being anti-male, was in fact "ladies, appreciate your guy for who he is. Stop trying to turn him into what he's not".
Also, I don't honestly believe your 'seven-year-old daughter story'. But if she really exists and is a fan of Die Hard, then surely she must have appreciated the Bruce Willis/John McClane story.
Yeah, it seemed to be missing something.
The subtitles for the velociraptors was the funniest part ("What's the Wifi password?", "Ask Sharon"), but even then not laugh out loud funny.
The humour was pretty "adult" - dripping with irony and meta, so it's understandable if kids didn't enjoy it as much.
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