Nothing Is Too Insulting To Our Intelligence

Rating: 2/10 (13 September 2010)

National Treasure 2 is a carbon copy of the first movie with a couple of new actors sprinkled in there. First of all, I could not even by into this movie. The premise behind the first movie was "Let's go find the largest treasure in our nation's history!" The premise behind this movie was "Let's go find the *second* largest treasure in our nation's history!" I had a hard enough time swallowing the plot of the first movie. This movie's plot went beyond silly and landed in the territory of stupid.
There's just too many ridiculous plot points that the filmmakers were trying to make us swallow in this one. The characters gave the same dull performances in this movie as they did in the last movie. The difference is that not even Jon Voight or Justin Bartha really put in a lot of effort this time.
And where as I found the screenplay in the last movie to be one of the better portions of the movie, here it was just absurd and astonishingly bad. Everything was pretty predictable and the screenplay never stopped throwing bullshit at the audience. "Ben's relatives helped assassinate a president! You don't care? You should! And all of the presidents kept a diary of everything they did in office! That could have been helpful to historians? Well, it wasn't!" Nope, nothing is too insulting to our intelligence evidently! The worst part of this movie is the action, or the random running and screaming and chasing the movie tries to pass off as action. It was a degenerating factor in the first movie, and the same applies here.
Whereas I had been forced to watch the first movie in my high school history classes (because the movie mentioned history I guess?), I got the opportunity to see this picture in theatres (they took us on a field trip to see it because, I suppose, there are some historical figures mentioned at some point, right? I got nothing...). One of the worst theatre experiences I have had. It's loud, it's corny, it's cheesy, it's stupid, it's a mess, and it's incredibly bogus action for an "action" movie. I put the word "action" in quotes because i really couldn't buy this as an action movie in any sense of the word.
2/10