A mere shadow of the first

Rating: 6/10 (2 September 2008)

Our red anti-hero is back. Together with the agency he's out to save the world again. And this time he's all gentle and careful about it. No, I'm kidding, he's just as rude and crude as he was the first time around.
Where the first film worked because of the new "hero" this second one has nothing like that to start it off. So instead of being able to rely on the newness of things it has to come with something extra and quite sadly the one thing new it does bring takes the film away from what it should be. For me the added creatures just did not belong in a film like this and actually made it a lot worse than it should have been.
It's still a fun film, for the most of it, but it could have done a lot better if it had stuck a little closer to the tale of the original one (and as far as I've heard, the comic books the first film was based on). If there is going to be a third one I for one hope they return to the original style.
6 out of 10 big hearted bad guys