Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
A group of talentless animated animals gather together to listen to licensed music with you, as the writers can’t even be bothered to show up to work.
So I didn’t watch the first film, and somehow I don’t really feel like that would have made that much of a difference as there is no plot here, I doubt there was in the last film either, so I haven’t missed much.
Frankly if I were a parent I would feel insulted by this film, Illumination clearly think that they can just send out any old slop to the cinemas and that children and begrudgingly there families will just eat it up: know your worthy families of the world, you deserve more than this. This reeks of greed and cynicism.
Until the last twenty minutes of the film I don’t even remember any of the characters singing, which is baffling as that is what the whole film is supposed to be about. Instead for the most part the characters do very mundane generic quests in the purposes of killing time and the film blares out some equally bland licensed music. This is in no way interesting.
As I left this film I thought for sure this must have been some kind of tax write off, or money laundering scheme, as I can’t see why else it was made.
Overall, kids deserve better than this.
Pros.
I found it unintentionally hilarious a few times.
Cons.
The characters are awful
There is no plot
The animals barely sing
The music that we do get is generic and forgettable
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