It's more just awareness hype. Eddie Murphy has a sequel coming out to a beloved classic. People are excited to see it.

In terms of critical hype, it doesn't exist. C2A has a 52% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Posted by MWP

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Posted on 3/4/21 at 7:38 pm to Jack Ruby

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I simply don't understand the hype this film is getting.

The first one was a classic. I can't count how many one liners from that movie were circulated into our conversations among my buddies back in high school when it came out. It is up there on the same pedestal for me as Harlem Nights.

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Posted by LSUMJ

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Posted on 3/4/21 at 7:39 pm to gizmothepug

sadly i have zero hope it will even be mediocre

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Posted by LSUBoo

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Posted on 3/4/21 at 7:40 pm to UndercoverBryologist

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In terms of critical hype, it doesn't exist. C2A has a 52% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Seems pretty good for a comedy sequel 33 years later.

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Posted by Dr RC

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Posted on 3/4/21 at 7:44 pm to gizmothepug

lol at Paramount selling it to Amazon instead of using it to kick off Paramount Plus.

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Posted by Geauxboy

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Posted on 3/4/21 at 7:53 pm to LSUMJ

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sadly i have zero hope it will even be mediocre

Have you even seen the trailer?
No chance it's close to mediocre.

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Posted by TheeRealCarolina

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Posted on 3/4/21 at 7:55 pm to Dr RC

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lol at Paramount selling it to Amazon instead of using it to kick off Paramount Plus.

Probably doesn’t fit the programming mold

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Posted by gizmothepug

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Posted on 3/4/21 at 8:19 pm to Dr RC

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lol at Paramount selling it to Amazon instead of using it to kick off Paramount Plus.

Don’t worry Paramount is evidently using the new SpongeBob movie as their kickoff movie, it almost come to blows with my 8 year old son this afternoon because we wouldn’t spend $20 to rent a movie for 48 hours.

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Posted by Stagliano

Member since Dec 2020

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Posted on 3/4/21 at 8:25 pm to gizmothepug

I was fully expecting peak blackness but gosh damn if they didn't raise the bar

im good. I made it almost halfway

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Posted by Dr RC

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Posted on 3/4/21 at 8:45 pm to gizmothepug

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Don’t worry Paramount is evidently using the new SpongeBob movie as their kickoff movie, it almost come to blows with my 8 year old son this afternoon because we wouldn’t spend $20 to rent a movie for 48 hours.

Just sign up for the 7 day free trial of P+ and cancel it when you're done

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Posted by dcw7g

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Posted on 3/4/21 at 8:58 pm to gizmothepug

Just watched it. Probably not a “good” movie, but had some fun parts and plenty of throwbacks to the original (which I loved). The musical bits were the best: what’s better than Morgan Freeman introducing Salt n’ Pepa at a funeral? As an aside - how many of these people made deals with the devil to barely age over 30 years? Eddie, Arsenio, and Shari Headley still look great. Yeah, the story was weak but I was smiling through the whole thing.

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Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa

Member since Nov 2015

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Posted on 3/4/21 at 9:00 pm to gizmothepug

Have that nostalgic excitement right now ready to watch it but half of me sort wants to give it a pass...

That's the problem with nostalgia, you know you're going to be disappointed in a film because nothing lives up to what you loved in childhood.

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