I just watched it, it started out with some promise it wasn't bad. Even though I hate the kid from stranger things, and child actors in general. The film felt like it was competent and would tell me a story.
Unfortunately it delved a little bit too deeply into nostalgia. I expected it to do that a little bit, but it went a bit too far. Then without spoiling the ending let me just say the last 30-45 minutes of the movie was practically a reshoot of the original. Like they were going way way out of their way to tie in to the first movie as much as humanly possible.
It felt like they had a different movie and then someone said "hey you should add more nostalgia" over and over again until someone just gave them the original script as a joke. Then they looked at it and said that's perfect.
Overall, it was just ok because I'm not sure who the audience was. The ending after the credits had a very strange setup for a sequel, that to the best of my understanding will be impossible to shoot. So I don't know why they did that. Probably just for nostalgia.
I just watched it, it started out with some promise it wasn't bad. Even though I hate the kid from stranger things, and child actors in general. The film felt like it was competent and would tell me a story.
Unfortunately it delved a little bit too deeply into nostalgia. I expected it to do that a little bit, but it went a bit too far. Then without spoiling the ending let me just say the last 30-45 minutes of the movie was practically a reshoot of the original. Like they were going way way out of their way to tie in to the first movie as much as humanly possible.
It felt like they had a different movie and then someone said "hey you should add more nostalgia" over and over again until someone just gave them the original script as a joke. Then they looked at it and said that's perfect.
Overall, it was just ok because I'm not sure who the audience was. The ending after the credits had a very strange setup for a sequel, that to the best of my understanding will be impossible to shoot. So I don't know why they did that. Probably just for nostalgia.
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