This was a good sequel, trying to be as good as the first movie but it failed to be as good as the first movie. It failed mainly because the musical numbers were not as good as the first movie and overall i was very disappointed in the ending competition which was the big payoff contest between the Bella group and the German group in the world group singing competition.  The musical numbers where mostly not only as good as the first, but not long enough, especially in the end.

I thought that the comedy in this movie was as good as the first movie and this part of this sequel was successful.  I am sure that there will be another sequel to this franchise and I hope that the quality goes a bit back up to match the the first movie, especially as far as the musical numbers.

What I don’t like with most sequels is that very rarely do you see a new or original idea which was again the case of this movie. If they make the 3rd version of this franchise and follow the same formula again, this idea will get very old very quickly.

Despite this movie’s flaws, overall I do recommend it.

The Hollywood Sequel Formula

While watching this movie I was asking myself 2 questions. Why was this bad movie made? What was the point. The movie is a ridiculous story about a man who wants to get some glory he never had in high school by getting a former student he went to high school with, who he know thinks is a famous actor to go to their 20 year high school reuinion. While attempting to talk this actor into attending the ruinion he has a gay experience with them, and that basically is the entire plot of this horrible movie.

How can a movie this bad, with this bad of a story be made? Can Jack Black’s career survive a movie this bad? I hope so because Jack Black has some talent and can be funny, but he would be far better off taking off a few years and making no movies rather than ever risk making another movie this bad.

Not only is this movie very bad, but there is a great deal of smoking in many scenes during the agonizing 2 hours this movie was playing. I think this was suppose to be a comedy, but there is nothing funny here, most especially the depressing and very bad story. THe only question here is why is this movie called D-Train. Maybe I fell asleep when they explained that part of the story.

Avoid this movie at all costs.

Screenwriting tips

I assumed going into this movie that it was suppose to be a comedy.  Nobody laughed in the audience, not even once for the entire almost 2 hours of one very bad and pathetic movie.  There were attempts at humor that completely failed in every instance.  One pathetic scene had Reese Witherspoon dressed like Justin Beiber and once again, nobody laughed.  Considering how difficult it is to write and then get a script even read by anyone in Hollywood I am continually amazed that a movie this bad could even be made. This movie was a disaster right from the start.

Do yourself a favor and miss this bad move.

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