A bit too edible, but a good dating movie

Rating: 6/10 (24 August 2008)

Dating movie? Yes, me and my fiancée ended up seeing this movie on a date night. And it actually worked as a date movie! There were several songs in it that you could hum along to, and quite a few romantic and funny moments.
But when I say too edible, I mean TOO EDIBLE. I watched the first one when it came out, and then once more before we went to see the new one. I quite liked the first movie, and was really looking forward to see if they had used and expanded the potential that was put in the first movie. BUT NOOO. They had made a "let's attract as wide an audience as possible"-movie. The main characters were less interesting than in the first one, there were a lot of unnecessary pop songs in the movie (kind of like in Spider-Man), and WAY too much of Toro's monsters in there. The movie had a very interesting view on elves, though. As in, they weren't just tall humans with pointy ears like in LOTR.
So, to sum it all up: if you're going with the expectation of seeing a movie with the same qualities as the first movie, only better, you'll be DISAPPOINTED. But if you're going to the movie with a date, you've picked one that both you and your girl (or vice versa) will like.