I adored the first movie when I saw it about a year ago, and after hearing nothing but bad things about this film, I was pleasantly surprised.
Let’s get some caveats out of the way first
1. This movie has no musical numbers. While the first had maybe 1 or 2 too many for my taste, (Kilimanjaro does nothing for me.) there were some iconic numbers from the first movie, and this one has zero. For some that won’t matter, but I personally would have liked it have seen one or two.
2. The cute and fun little character moments are not as present in this movie. Chiti is practically given zero character moments, and the movie really takes for granted that you have already seen Enthiran and like the characters already.
The second caveat seems like a big deal, and it kind of is, but the movie is just so consistently visually inventive and exciting that it is hard not to have a good time. The final stretch of this is incredible, and it is all around a bonkers and joyous experience.
Definitely worth a watch, if not entirely essential.
I adored the first movie when I saw it about a year ago, and after hearing nothing but bad things about this film, I was pleasantly surprised.
Let’s get some caveats out of the way first
1. This movie has no musical numbers. While the first had maybe 1 or 2 too many for my taste, (Kilimanjaro does nothing for me.) there were some iconic numbers from the first movie, and this one has zero. For some that won’t matter, but I personally would have liked it have seen one or two.
2. The cute and fun little character moments are not as present in this movie. Chiti is practically given zero character moments, and the movie really takes for granted that you have already seen Enthiran and like the characters already.
The second caveat seems like a big deal, and it kind of is, but the movie is just so consistently visually inventive and exciting that it is hard not to have a good time. The final stretch of this is incredible, and it is all around a bonkers and joyous experience.
Definitely worth a watch, if not entirely essential.