Fun and enjoyable but not quite the surprising hit that welcome to the jungle was. Same brilliant cast with a few additional welcome appearances, however i feel the expanded team gives less importance to our original famous four. Because there is a larger cast of characters there more lives to go around it seems that the 3 lives per head carry much less gravity, one character uncaring losing 2 out of his 3 in under 5 minutes of screen time brings this issue to a head. I feel i must also mention the redundancy of the additional strengths and weaknesses given to the characters, as these just felt like unnecessary plot points. Most blatant of these is Dr. Bravestones (Dwayne Johnson) weakness to switchblade being used for all of 3 minutes of screen time and becoming of little to no consequence. I suspect deleted scenes might tell more of a story in this case.
With that all said, with my soapbox taking seemingly hate-filled tirade out of the way, i very much enjoyed watching this film. Although it doesn't quite exactly capture the magic of the first sequel, it is still a fantastically enjoyable time and its only failures are truly in comparison to what preceded it.
6/10
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