Norm of the North: Keys to the Kingdom

Norm of the North: Keys to the Kingdom
How come they released a sequel to an already bad movie?
Directed By: Richard Finn Tim Maltby Written By/Screenplay: Daniel R. Altiere Steven M. Altiere Malcolm T. Goldman Starring: Andrew Toth Maya Kay Alan Marriott Maureen Jones Lee Tockar Jonathan Holmes Photography: Color Distributed By: Lionsgate Home Entertainmment Release Date: January 11, 2019 (Limited Theatrical Release) February 12, 2019 (Home Media) Runtime: 91 minutes (Two 45-minute segments) Country: United States India Canada Prequel: Norm of the North (2016) Sequel: Norm of the North: King Sized Adventure (2019)

Norm of the North: Keys to the Kingdom (otherwise known as Norm of the North 2: Keys to the Kingdom, or just Norm of the North 2) is a 2019 American-Indian-Canadian 3D computer-animated comedy adventure direct-to-video movie produced by Splash Entertainment and distributed by Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Its serves as the sequel to the critically-panned Norm of the North and is the second (second and third if proprietary considering the film as two installments in one)installment of the Norm of the North series.

Despite it's name, Norm of the North: Keys to the Kingdom is actually consists of two 45 minute segments, both of which were originally going to be released direct-to-video. They were titled Back to the City and The Arctic All-Stars.

Plots

Back to the City

Norm, the polar bear, runs into trouble when he travels to New York to accept the keys to the city and is framed by the Mayor.

The Arctic All-Stars

When Norm returns home, he must unite with his animal friends to save the Arctic from a devious company that plans to steal the ice.

Why They Can't Find the Keys to the Kingdom

1. First off, the sequel has no reason to exist, since the first film was already atrocious to begin with. Not to mention that the previous film did not set off for a sequel.
2. The film was meant to be two separate 45-minute sequels released independently, but for some reason, the sequels were edited together and published as one big movie.
3. The CGI is worse than the first film.
4. The film does absolutely nothing to improve on the first film.
5. Many assets are lazily recycled. For example, there are only four types of car models in the entire movie (a van, a taxi, a red car, and a limo), and none have different textures. Norm's son also uses young Norm's model from the first movie, and Norm's other children use the same model, but with different eye colors.
   • Newly created assets often do not match the former assets art style. A big offender is the Mayor, whose more realistic style clashes with the somewhat cartoony look of the person next to him in one scene.
     • Speaking of the Mayor, he looks a bit like Senator Armstrong from Metal Gear Rising Revengents, but cartoony as mentioned above, according to Dumbsville.
   • There are some inconsistencies with the models themselves, such as Olympia having dark blonde hair when she’s first seen, then the next time you see her, her hair changes to ginger like in the first film. This problem also applies with Vera as well, as in one scene, she is seen with brown hair instead of ginger hair for the rest of the movie.
6. Retains the same immature humor as the original, like twerking and toilet humor.
7. Very strange and buzzer dialoged, one noticeable example goes to the "Back to the City" segment where a random old lady says to Norm "Don't worry Norm you got this, just image everyone naked!", why the heck would a random old lady tell someone that???
   1. To add feather creepy vibes, a pond saying that line, the random old lady gets a very gitty-like expression as she stairs at Norm.
8. False advertising: One poster shows Norm wearing a V-neck sweater, but in the actual movie, he doesn’t wear it because he stays naked like all polar bears do in real life.
9. There are multiple plot-holes in this film:
   1. How can one of Norm's sons talk human like Norm?
   2. Were did Fong come from, why is he a ninja and how can Fong speck human like Norm and co.?
   3. When and where did Olympia meet Fong?
   4. How the heck does Fong, a rabbit, own a bank?
   5. When did Stan comes to the realize that he was tricked?
   6. Why do Norm and co. still advise to play agents the villain even tho he cheated?
10. Almost none of the voice actors from the original reprise their roles in this sequel and only has voice actors from Canada, the only exception being Maya Kay, who reprises her role as Olympia. It's possibly because either most of the voice actors from the first film refused to return for a sequel due to how the first film turned out or they were too expensive to bring back.
11. There is absolutely nothing that connects the two plots, making it more evident that the film is two 45-minute segments slapped together at the last second.
    1. This is most evident by the mid-point in the film were after Norm defeats the Mayor and hugs his son when they both get on the boat, they screen-whip to an all new adventure.
       1. Give The Digimon Movie credit, while that film was ALSO slap together with separate 45-minute segments, at least that film tries to be one solid film.
       2. Heck, even Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie (as in the 1996 film), as mixed as that film was for its time and had a very similar structure in that its really two OVA episodes just mash together to make a movie, was able to implement its two episodic segments into a feature length film way better, and that film came out in 1996, twenty-three years earlier.
12. The writing is just as bad, if not worse than the original.
13. Much like other films such as FernGully 2 The Magical Rescue and Hoodwink Too!, Norm of the North: Keys to the Kingdom has almost no connection to the original film, making it feel like more of a stand-alone movie rather then a sequel.
14. One of the new main characters of the film(s), Fong the rabbit, feels very shoe-honed in the film(s) as mentioned before, and also makes a very pointless comic relief given the fact that the Lemmings already provide Comic Relief Elements. Not to mention, he's a Gary-Stu.

The Only Redeeming Quality

1. Olympia is still a tolerable character, just like in the first film.

Trivia

• In a somewhat distasteful comment, Luigitehplumber (a former admin for this wiki) wrote on a SuperTed Facebook page where he criticized the movie and compared it to SuperTed. Mike Young, the founder of Splash Entertainment, said that the movies were "made for kids" and not towards "40-year-olds who live in their mothers basement." It's unknown who's to blame for Mike to say that, but both comments are quite bad in their way.
• The entire movie was leaked on the internet just a year before it was even released, due to having a screener video up on Splash Entertainment's Vimeo account.
• This, along with the other 2 sequels were never released outside North America and India, leaving Norm of the North as a standalone film in every other region it was released in.

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