Why make a second one of this movie? The first one had some physical laughs but overall was rather depressing because the main characters life was so pathetic. In this new movie, some 6 years later, Paul Blart’s life is even worse. His wife, who he married at the end of the last movie left him after a week and then they show his mother being killed when a car drove by her house while she was picking up the paper. Is this funny? Is it funny to see an old woman run over by a car? What am I missing?

The bottom line is that its not enough just to have some physical stunts and funny faces in a comedy movie there has to be more than that, and this movie has nothing more than some physical stunts and no laughs.

Avoid this rather bad sequel to the first Paul Blart movie.

The difficulties with screenwriting

This was a bad movie. It was bad because it was boring. It was bad because the scenes did not connect with each other. It was bad because it tried to be funny and was never funny. There was no point to this movie and no message. There was a scene where about 10 people vomited into pails because of some kind of an Indian seminar the main characters were attending and the vomiting went on and on way too long and even continued into the next scene. Its throwing up funny? Did the producers or directors or actors think that showing people constantly vomiting would be entertaining or funny? It was nothing more than disgusting. I could not wait until this bad movie which was close to two hours long was finally over and it was a total nightmare to sit through.

Avoid this movie at all costs.

So many bad movies

This is another Nicholas Sparks movie and it is very amazing that this guy has had so many of his love story books made into movies, the best one of course the Notebook which came out in 2004.

This movie “The Longest Ride” is a strange movie because it tries to connect the events of 1940 during and after the war and a love story between a Jewish couple who find out that because of a war injury that they will not be able to have children and a young couple from present day who meet at a Bull Riding event in the south.  The only connection between the two couples is that the women have a love of art and on a drive back after a date the current day couple rescue an old man who they found in a ditch after a car accident.   What follows are some flashback’s to the 1940’s and the old man’s marriage and relationship with his late wife and the problems the current couple are having with their relationship, mainly because the young man who is a professional Bull Rider is not able to give up this very dangerous sport because of a recent brain injury after a bull riding accident on year earlier.

Normally when I have seen movies that try and connect two different stories there are more similarities, connections or ironies that exist than this movie which had some very loosely connected ideas and story lines which for the most part didn’t really work.

I definitely found the movie “The Notebook” a very good movie when is saw it years ago and I have thought over the years that most of the Nicolas Sparks movies were good or at least average but this movie misses the mark on too many levels to recommend.

I cannot give a recommendation to “The Longest Ride”.

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