I was greatly disappointed with this particular sequel for a number of reasons.
1) The time-line: The first movie took place in 1939. The second movie takes place in what appears to be modern-day San Francisco in the 90's. That's all good, but that would make Itchy around 60 years old when he goes to heaven. The irony is he winds up choking on a chicken bone rather then dying of EXTREME old age.
2) Annabelle flip-flops from anthro form to feral (quadrupedal) form several times in the movie. I know she's an angel, but still. That was just annoying. Also in the bar scene, we see several quadrupedal dogs mixed in with clothes-wearing anthro dogs.
3) Lack of continuity. In the scene where Charlie and Itchy are talking to Carface in the bar, and Carface shows them his special collar, Charlie (who is still a ghost at this point and hasn't even met Red yet) suddenly has a collar! But immediately afterwards, it disappears again. And later when Charlie has the horn and he's trying to lure Red into the water, the collar he's wearing suddenly disappears, then reappears again a few moments later. This is what a Script Supervisor should be watching out for. Obviously the Script Supervisor in this movie wasn't paying enough attention to notice these mistakes.
4) Charlie's voice. Now I know Burt Reynolds wasn't available to do Charlie's voice at the time, but Charlie Sheen was just a bad replacement. They could have at least gotten someone who sounds like Burt, like Norm McDonald. I know they probably just got Sheen in there so they could have a big name in the movie...but it just didn't work. I like Charlie Sheen, and I know his [inappropriate] behavior is befitting of the character...but his voice is not befitting for Charlie Barkin.
5) This is just a personal peeve of mine...they removed Charlie's moles! In the first movie, Charlie had these two very adorable and very distinguishing moles on either side of his face. By the 2nd movie, X-mas special and the series, they were gone. That just made me sad. Plastic surgery belongs to the self-loathing actors, not cartoon characters. Charlie should have kept the moles.
6) Like with most sequels, the animation and character re-designs were just terrible. All the characters seemed to have "gained weight" (much like in TLK 2) and we were expected to be distracted from the poor-quality animation by the unnecessarily garish colors (again, like TLK 2).
I could go on and on about them not having Anne-Marie getting some kind of cameo (as an old woman, of course), them turning Carface into a sniveling wuss when he was so menacing and evil in the first movie, or even about Annabelle's voice going from sweet-seductive-angel in movie one to screechy-old-biddy-yelling-at-kids-to-get-off-her-lawn in the second, but I won't divulge into the countless other things I found wrong with this movie. Because then I'd be sitting here all night.
If you're a true die-hard fan of movie 1, then you may find movie 2 to be pointless and disappointing. I literally can not think of a single thing I likes about ADGTH 2. The only thing original about it (but not nearly as funny as the first) was the fact that Itchy was played by Dom DeLuise.
Not worth watching unless you're into sequels and you're such a huge ADGTH fan that it doesn't matter how bad this movie is. I personally don't recommend wasting your money on it.
| November 07, 2015 | ||
I personally agree. Though I appreciate it since it's a part of the
franchise, it just doesn't feel connected to the original movie at all
apart from Itchy. Charlie just seems like a completely different
character and it's hard to associate him with the original Charlie in
the first movie. I dunno, though. I ain't very good at critiques, so
this puts my thoughts into words way better than I ever could have. |
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