Monster Family 2

Monster Family 2
The horrible sequel to a horrible film that nobody asked for
Genre: Comedy Family Animation Romance Directed by: Holgar Tappe Produced by: Holgar Tappe Written by: David Safier Based on: "Happy Family" by David Safier Starring: Emily Watson Jason Issacs Nick Frost Ethan Rouge Jessica Brown Findlay Emily Carey Release date: Oct. 15, 2021 Prequel: Monster Family

Monster Family 2 (Commonly advertised as Monster Family 2: Nobody's Perfect) is a 2021 sequel to the 2017 animated film, Monster Family.

Plot

Years after they were turned into monsters, the Wishbones return to their monster forms when a family of scientists begin capturing monsters around the world for their experiments.

Why It's Still Monstrous

1. The main problem with this film is that it has no reason to exist as the previous film ended on a positive note, as well as reviewing poorly by critics and audiences.
2. Misleading Poster: The posters for the film show the characters in New York, but they are only there for two scenes.
3. Max and Faye have been flanderized, with the former being a bumbling weakling who constantly causes trouble in the film while the latter seemingly hasn't learned her lesson from the first film.
4. The pacing of the film is all over the place, with some scenes going too fast, such as the time spent in different places, while others go extremely slow, such as the fight scenes.
5. Mr. and Mrs. Starr aren't very interesting villains, notably that their plan was to absorb the immortality of the monsters to make a new daughter, which is a major example of wasted potential.
   • Robot Mila is essentially a generic kill-the-hero villain who spends the whole 8 minutes of her appearance making fun of Mila.
6. Mila's character design and movements are more stiff and dull compared to other characters.
7. There are many filler moments, such as where Faye calms down King Konga by dancing and singing.
8. There is a cringe-worthy moment where Faye accidentally hypnotizes herself to dance and sing to U Can't Touch This by MC Hammer.
9. The romance between Max and Mila is pretty forced, going so far as to have their first kiss in literally their first meeting, although this was an accident.
10. As mentioned in WISM #4, there are many moments of wasted potential.
    • Imhotep is nowhere to be seen, despite the fact that he fits the criteria of the monsters Mila was hunting and his hatred for the Wishbones.
    • Dracula has been demoted from archenemy of the Wishbones to a comic-relief villain who isn't treated seriously by anyone, despite being a major threat in the first film.
    • Emma's bloodlust is no longer treated as a deadly and emotional development, instead as a joke that is brought up once.
11. Mila's relationship with her parents is a plot-hole itself, such as why they would send her to capture the monsters if they don't trust her or how were they able to keep her a secret for 12 years?
12. It still suffers from the same problems as it's predecessor and doesn't do much to improve them, like most sequels are meant to and sometimes repeats them to a much more bigger extent that can make this film come off as a rehash of the previous film, which already wasn't very good to begin with, which proves that David Safier, Holgar Tappe and Ambient Entertainment clearly haven't learned their lesson after the poor reception and abysmal box office performance of the previous film and instead decided to make this sequel anyways, proving that they cannot handle any form of criticism whatsoever and this film is proof of that notion.
    • In fact, this sequel has the exact same story as the original 2017 film, but with different plot elements and new characters, which clearly shows that the writers were lazy during production and decided to play it safe by using the same premise as before but with only a few differences that are noticeable but aren't executed well enough to make a sequel to an already mediocre film that was based on a book that received mixed reviews from German book enthusiasts and was quickly forgotten by the press after it was released during the early 2010s.
    • Also worth noting is that nothing is improved from the previous film's awful writing, as it is still just as bad as before, and shows that David Safier had no intentions improving the mistakes of the previous film and instead repeat his usual bad writing that is typical in most of his works, proving his inability to write entertaining and memorable stories.
      • This is mostly due to his massive ego and Ambient Entertainment trying to milk the franchise for money despite it's middling success and poor reception, especially considering that these films make less than their budget costs at the box office, thus proving that this sequel didn't need to exist.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Emma, Frank, Baba Yaga, and Renfield have improved from their first film and are likable for the most part.
   • Mila is a likable new character.
2. The humor in this film is far less childish than the first film and there are some funny moments, such as the Wishbones' reaction to Max turning them into monsters again or when Mrs. Starr sees Mila with Max and realizes that she's with a werewolf, but Mr. Starr thinks he's just a really hairy kid (something Max called himself earlier).
3. The animation is still pretty good aside from a few hiccups.
4. The voice acting is still decent.
5. The designs of the new monsters aren't bad, Nessie in particular is adorable.

Reception

Although it received more positive reviews from audiences, the film still received mostly negative reviews from critics. The film currently has a 4.9 on IMDb, a 10% critic score and 58% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 61% on Google. Despite this, many agree that this film is better than the first film.

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