The more you know the less you can enjoy... So let's watch this movie being completely ignoring the past...
We get a great opening, a nice plot, some cool visual, good music, good laughs, a catchy movie from the first to the very last second. Quite entertaining!
My biggest problem with it? The media and marketing! All the trailers I had seen would have prevented me from watching this one. Clips felt boring and forced and cold. Same goes for reviews and interviews... It's like this project was doomed to not stand on its own feet.
In detail: The acting feels often wooden and the timing overstretched. Maybe the director was aiming at the the cast's stand-up qualities? Too much ad lib? The development of the main plot was a little under motivated. Questions like "why?" or "how?" shouldn't be asked. So the final act falls behind its visuals...
Something about taste: All female cast + Kevin... maybe overdone, maybe done just right.
Up until here, the movie could easily deserve a 7/10!
Now let's include our memories of the old ones: Many things and motives are simply similar to the old movies, so you can't help but to get a "been there done that"-feeling... maybe this justifies the tone of the all female cast and "Kevin". Since there are so many things that have to be repeated, why not focus on other aspects of the group dynamics. Accepting this, many of the negative reviews simply fade away as a bare expression of taste mixed with the unwillingness for an open mind. People hate exactly two things: when something changes and when nothing changes at all. ;) All cameos felt just right and I enjoyed them all! Though I cannot help it but to feel that Bill Murray simply hated being involved. Still I loved his part. Paranormal cameos: also nice!
Still one of the better movies I watched this year!
Let's express some hope here: Maybe this was just a story to kick off some franchise so the story and motives will be explained in a sequel... maybe there is a good explanation for Kevin, too? On the other hand: this is the feeling I had after seeing Matrix2 and part 3 didn't do much of the needed connecting or answering...
We get a great opening, a nice plot, some cool visual, good music, good laughs, a catchy movie from the first to the very last second. Quite entertaining!
My biggest problem with it? The media and marketing! All the trailers I had seen would have prevented me from watching this one. Clips felt boring and forced and cold. Same goes for reviews and interviews... It's like this project was doomed to not stand on its own feet.
In detail: The acting feels often wooden and the timing overstretched. Maybe the director was aiming at the the cast's stand-up qualities? Too much ad lib? The development of the main plot was a little under motivated. Questions like "why?" or "how?" shouldn't be asked. So the final act falls behind its visuals...
Something about taste: All female cast + Kevin... maybe overdone, maybe done just right.
Up until here, the movie could easily deserve a 7/10!
Now let's include our memories of the old ones: Many things and motives are simply similar to the old movies, so you can't help but to get a "been there done that"-feeling... maybe this justifies the tone of the all female cast and "Kevin". Since there are so many things that have to be repeated, why not focus on other aspects of the group dynamics. Accepting this, many of the negative reviews simply fade away as a bare expression of taste mixed with the unwillingness for an open mind. People hate exactly two things: when something changes and when nothing changes at all. ;) All cameos felt just right and I enjoyed them all! Though I cannot help it but to feel that Bill Murray simply hated being involved. Still I loved his part. Paranormal cameos: also nice!
Still one of the better movies I watched this year!
Let's express some hope here: Maybe this was just a story to kick off some franchise so the story and motives will be explained in a sequel... maybe there is a good explanation for Kevin, too? On the other hand: this is the feeling I had after seeing Matrix2 and part 3 didn't do much of the needed connecting or answering...