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I saw it. It's a film, that I saw. I think it's not as bad as you fear, but absolutely not as good as you'd hope. A mess of many threads that individually have promise but never get a look in. It amounts to not very much, but I didn't mind it. My two biggest issues are: 1.) It's not funny enough. and 2.) There are way too many characters.
Afterlfe had its own tone with a sprinkling of humour here and there, but focused more on being a sentimental family drama. Frozen Empire settles in to more familiar comedy territory which I think is good but - it's not very funny. The wit isn't sharp enough, and a talented ensemble don't have enough to work with. Paul Rudd is putting in over-time trying to charm some life into this but he is just one man. The cast for this film is stupidly large and absolutely bogs the whole thing down. You've got the entire Afterlife cast, several OG cast members, and new key characters all fighting for screen-time, slowing things down, and literally clogging the frame. I got JW: Dominion vibes at times. That said, this film was never bad. This is a solid cast of likable characters. The nostalgia-bait is annoying but mostly background noise and not the off-putting worship that swallowed Afterlife, plus this has its own villain and lore which is nice.
There's some spoilery stuff I ought to discuss but I will let it settle for a bit first.
Afterlfe had its own tone with a sprinkling of humour here and there, but focused more on being a sentimental family drama. Frozen Empire settles in to more familiar comedy territory which I think is good but - it's not very funny. The wit isn't sharp enough, and a talented ensemble don't have enough to work with. Paul Rudd is putting in over-time trying to charm some life into this but he is just one man. The cast for this film is stupidly large and absolutely bogs the whole thing down. You've got the entire Afterlife cast, several OG cast members, and new key characters all fighting for screen-time, slowing things down, and literally clogging the frame. I got JW: Dominion vibes at times. That said, this film was never bad. This is a solid cast of likable characters. The nostalgia-bait is annoying but mostly background noise and not the off-putting worship that swallowed Afterlife, plus this has its own villain and lore which is nice.
There's some spoilery stuff I ought to discuss but I will let it settle for a bit first.