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I was pretty excited to see this while also presuming it would be a pretty bad film. I mean, I love the first one, but it didn't seem like it could be done again.

And they didn't, really. The first one is still definitely better; but the second one was still quite funny anyway. It did drag in the third act by quite a bit, I think, not nevertheless I liked it a lot. Note that I did not watch any trailers for this because I didn't want any jokes spoiled, so your mileage may vary.

Are you sure?

I'm a huge fan of the first film and I'd already resigned myself to the sequel being unbearably bad.

Yeah it does seem like a bit of a one trick pony, that and there's been so much promotion for it:
Although this is gold



EDIT: Going to see it tonight with a friend

Well, the entire phenomenon with the first film was that it wasn't an instant classic. It became funnier and more memorable AFTER the first viewing. Maybe that was lightning in a bottle, but we should probably give it some time and some repeat viewings before making too much of a judgment.

I saw the first movie in theaters and didn't like it much. I recently watched the first movie again on TV and it was much more funny for some reason.

Very funny interview! I had hopes that it would be at least OK. The add blitz has set the standard pretty high so we'll see.

Thanks for the heads-up Ouze!

 Corpsesarefun wrote:
Are you sure?

I'm a huge fan of the first film and I'd already resigned myself to the sequel being unbearably bad.

I loved. Saw it sober and still loved it.

Dobe I banish thee!

To clarify I haven't seen the film yet, I had just expected the sequel to be bad and had made peace with that fact.

I'm quite excited to hear it's good

I saw it and it is pretty funny. I mean, some of the jokes are based on having an outlandish premise and are repeats of the first movie, so they weren't as funny this time round, and I'm terrible at recognising celebrities so I didn't even realise like, Will Smith and Liam Neeson and Jim Carey and Harrison Ford were IN this.

Brick's romance was my favourite part.

 gossipmeng wrote:
I saw the first movie in theaters and didn't like it much. I recently watched the first movie again on TV and it was much more funny for some reason.

Same thing happened to me with Highlander 4. I think it was because I was so looking forward to it that it couldn't be as good in reality as I wanted it to be. My disappointment was so great, when I saw it again later, it couldn't have possibly sucked as much as I remembered.


On topic though- The preview had me confused: is he not married to Veronica anymore in this one? Perversely, that's actually going to affect whether or not I go see it.

I really liked this one better than the first, though that fight scene towards the end got a bit over the top. Brick was the best again.

 Jimsolo wrote:
On topic though- The preview had me confused: is he not married to Veronica anymore in this one? Perversely, that's actually going to affect whether or not I go see it.

Veronica has plenty of screen time; and that's all I will say.

I loved the movie. I went in thinking it was going to be bad. The jokes were great, lots of funny moments. That fight scene had my sides hurting.