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Better than the first

posted 9 years ago by blbbg1
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At least the mean spiritedness and bullying was toned way down! I didn't really like Kid Rock's character from the first film since he played a male alpha bitch type character but with a country accent, but at least he wasn't a macho bully who gets his kicks by beating up people, now I f_cking hate those type of bullies! But all and all, I thought Patrick Warburton played a better antagonist than Kid Rock did. At least he was funny unlike Rock. I mean if you're gonna play an @sshole, at least be funny and not just a jerkass who bullies, just to be cruel!

[–] kaos1965 9 years ago

Better than the first? Can I have some of what ever you're on man? Because you have to be smoking some really good stuff if you think it's better than the first one.

[–] blbbg1 9 years ago

I'm sorry, while the first movie was decent, the bullying in that film was so f_cking annoying as f_ck and it diminished the comedy value. I'm not saying the first one was bad or anything but the bullying went way too far! Almost any post-1980s film with bullying in it is a very bad thing!

I really don't get the hate for this sequel. Sure it's not great, but it's not terrible like some of you people are saying it is. People are just ungrateful anymore, I guess!

The biggest problem with this film was the cliched "time travel" and "alternate reality" plot. It's been done so many times already; It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, Back To The Future trilogy, Groundhog Day, Shrek Forever After: The Final Chapter, Donnie Darko, The Butterfly Effect, The Wizard of Oz, and so on. They really could've came up with a better plot like someone kidnaps Brandy and his triplet daughters and he has to go on an adventure and rescue them, that would've made for a better sequel and would've been less cliche. The idea of Joe having to rescue his family from thugs at least would've been a nice throwback to those 70s and 80s films like The Warriors and those Bruce Lee films.

[–] Philip_90 9 years ago

There was a first? Huh.

[–] IMDbeans 9 years ago

I thought it was marginally better than the first, but not much in it.