boe_dye's secret review

Rating: 8/10 (24 December 2007)

I really wish i could have given this movie more stars...
What the main problem turned out to be, at least for me, was the fact that it just kinda jumped in. it was near a carbon copy of it's predecessor.
Now don't get me wrong, it was an enjoyable movie that had many laugh out loud scenes. and it also did include a bit of masonic tradition as did it's aforementioned predecessor (i almost choked on my popcorn when the mentioned albert pike...).
However what it had an abundance of puzzles... it lacked in character development.
Now don't get me wrong, i am not looking for serious character development in a film such as this, that would be stupid. but in many cases it almost seemed as if this was an alternate version of the first one.
One thing that kinda annoyed me was Ed Harris' antagonist character. he made no sense. now i know and understand the need for bad guy/ good guy conflict in a Disney film. however, harris' character just made no sense, and was really useless to the over all story.
In one breathe he literally went from bad guy, to sorry about all this now he's a good guy, to bad guy, to just misunderstood and whiny.
At least with Sean Bean's character in the last film you knew where you stood with the guy...
All things aside, it was a decent film. My wife and I, including my bestest friend in the whole world next to my wife, enjoyed it.
And while it was nearly a carbon copy duplicate of the original, and it did fall short of the original, it was worth seeing in theatres. Perhaps had the story been a bit more solid, and the bad guy being at the very least consistent, and the dialogue not seemed like dialogue that was left on the cutting floor from the first one, i would have given it more.
And i probably will buy it when it comes on DVD, not because i have the need to keep collections and buy it just because it is a sequel, but because i did enjoy enough to want to watch it again.