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Goodnightmoon on 01 May 2017
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Very mixed feelings with this film.

First of all, I enjoyed it, it didn't feelt like a waste of money and I laughed a lot more than I thought I would, also I probably like the characters more now and it confirms again how damn cool the character of the racoon is, I love him.

But...

It was too much

Too much jokes - I like that this franchise doesn't take itself too seriously, but this is reaching the point where nothing has any kind of emotional weight because seems like everything is a joke, sometimes felt like I was watching a compilation of sketches, and while I laughed with a lot of them it was just way too much, all the time, whether it fits or not.

Too much shit going on all the time - Movies need to breath, they need moments to sink in, this is simply not the case here, the pacing is all over the place and it feels really unbalanced.

Too much CGI - Seriously, the whole movie must have been made in a green room, the constant oversaturation of special effects and CGI gets annoying and it doens't help with inmersion since it end ups feelling like literally everything you see is fake.

Too much like the first one - Which wouldn't be really a big problem if wasn't because it tries to copy and repeat some of the things that worked on the first one so hard, so constantly and so obviously that sometimes it goes against it.

And then there is the rather ugly color palette they have used, sometimes there is no taste at all in the election of colors, the rather convoluted scenarios doens't help either, the composition of the image is often so baroque, so messy and the colors so questionable that I can't say I'm convinced at all by the visual aspect of this film.

Other than that, the main story is pretty meh,  feels like the movie has many pointless moments, Chris Pratt is still charismatic (and hot) as hell and the OST was pretty cool again (They used "The Chain" from Fleetwood Mac twice, I cannot possibly hate a film that does that)

So yeah, not a bad film, pretty fun to watch overall, good to see with friends or with the family and eat tons of popcorn while laughing together which is cool, but is not really a good movie, it feels too unbalanced compared to the first one, is kind of messy and it doesn't have the same charm at all. I liked it enough to see the next one (maybe not in cinema this time though) but not enough to go around recommending it to people or praising it. Where Volume 1 was a high 7, Volume 2 is barely a 6.