This movie has none of the charm or fun of the first one. And the music is, at best, forgettable. Most of the songs sound like something created by American Idol, with just as thin a melody and lyrics. There was one decent - could have been good - song pretty much at the end of the movie that almost had interesting choreography - the 'truck stomping' bit was fairly creative as opposed to all of the rest. Otherwise, the most memorable songs were ones that were carried over - and 'redone' - from the first movie. Some of the horrible examples of what is wrong with this movies are: There was no attempt to even try to pick up the story from the suggestion given at the end of the original.
The new 'songs' were horrible and forgettable. There was none of the fun of the originals nor was there even an attempt to give them any decent choreography. A lot of the songs were just played while the actors walked through the current scene.
The actors - especially the guys - had horrible makeup and hairdos. For the most part they looked like they had died and been made up for their viewing at the funeral.
They totally screwed up the storyline from the first to the second movie. Brady and Mack DID NOT meet in 'Wet Side Story', they met in before they went back to the movie. So trying to create suspense based on a nonsensical change in the original storyline just blew the whole idea.
The ending was horrible, and an insult to the original movie and even managed to be an insult to the imaginary movie 'Wet Side Story'.
Need I go on? Disney would do well to chuck this movie immediately and pretend it never existed. Then they should either go back to the drawing board and come up with a movie that played truer to the first, or just not make a sequel at all.
I'm going to have to go back and watch the first one just to try to erase this one from my memory. But it was so bad it's probably going to take at least 10 back-to-back viewing of the first to even start to do so.
The new 'songs' were horrible and forgettable. There was none of the fun of the originals nor was there even an attempt to give them any decent choreography. A lot of the songs were just played while the actors walked through the current scene.
The actors - especially the guys - had horrible makeup and hairdos. For the most part they looked like they had died and been made up for their viewing at the funeral.
They totally screwed up the storyline from the first to the second movie. Brady and Mack DID NOT meet in 'Wet Side Story', they met in before they went back to the movie. So trying to create suspense based on a nonsensical change in the original storyline just blew the whole idea.
The ending was horrible, and an insult to the original movie and even managed to be an insult to the imaginary movie 'Wet Side Story'.
Need I go on? Disney would do well to chuck this movie immediately and pretend it never existed. Then they should either go back to the drawing board and come up with a movie that played truer to the first, or just not make a sequel at all.
I'm going to have to go back and watch the first one just to try to erase this one from my memory. But it was so bad it's probably going to take at least 10 back-to-back viewing of the first to even start to do so.