Gaw dawful

Rating: 1/10 (24 December 2012)

I love HA1. It was pure Hollywood hokum, but with such an engaging script a more than capable cast and some pretty sly digs at consumerism etc it tickled just about everyone's funny bone. I especially loved Kevin's parents, who could easily have been cast as bumbling but lovable twits, were actually cast as self absorbed materialistic shallow people! In that movie the potential plot holes were deftly dealt with by bumbling cops, power outages etc. In HA2 there is none of the charm, just an inferior retread. Kevin could just have called the cops and they would have found his family in 5 minutes, yet for some strange reason this doesn't happen! How can we expect a whole roomful of cops and hotel employees to be fooled by a crummy movie soundtrack. They even have to invent a non existent audio device to explain how Kevin could do this. How about a decent plot line and script? Sorry, but the urge to make more cash with the least possible outlay won out. The pits.