If you saw the first one, a lot will be familiar

Rating: 6/10 (12 June 2011)

I could tell from the trailer that what we where in for with this movie was going to be, to a large extent, a remake of the first movie. I was not proved wrong. The whole setting is exactly the same, even the intro (arial view of a town in the dawn) looked familiar. Don't get me wrong, I still found the movie quite entertaining, some of the gags where outrageously funny, but all the time it seemed like I was watching the first movie again, with a few new ideas inserted, and a lot more emphasis put on the shocking-funny kind of jokes. I thought they overplayed the whole Mr. Chow thing a bit, as well as the "Alan is just a nut case" thing.
All in all an average comedy, but falling short of the original due to lack of new ideas.