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My husband & me stumbled across this tonight. We had seen the original one at a theater back when it came out. We thought we would watch a little bit to see if it was worth watching because most sequels are not. What a pleasant surprise. We both laughed out loud numerous times. My husband even said he thought it was funnier than the first one. Lots of silly slapstick humor but all in good fun. It has lots of sweet moments too. A suitable movie for the whole family. If you haven't seen the first one, don't worry, this one stands on its own. Same main character but rest of story completely different. Check it out you will be glad you did. We may even watch again. P. S. We are both 80 and as my hubby said after it was over, we needed a good laugh.

It was so slow that after about 20 minutes I went to IMDB to read reviews. Pretty mixed bag, with some loving it and others feeling it was a waste of time. I said to my husband that if it didn't get better in the next 15 to 20 minutes that I would find something else to watch. Then something happened. I got caught up with the characters and I really wanted to see what was going to happen to them.

I could even give reason why they didn't get sunburned even with their pale skin. It's the future, it's sunny with hardly any clouds but they never sweat so it must be cool and if the desert is cool during the day, then maybe the sun doesn't have harmful rays that tan the skin. I know this is just a foolish point because the movie is much deeper than it appears on the surface.

I'm glad I watched it all the way as I think this story will be one I will remember a long time, unlike a lot of movies I've seen that I don't even remember the next day.

I mainly watched it for Julia Garner. She does t disappoint. Both the leads were believable characters.

I really wanted to like this. Butttttt it just kept getting worse and worse. So full of really dumb cliches from the sweet but misguided dad, the little brother who tried to be cute but was just annoying and then throw in the looser ex boyfriend trying to take advantage of the younger sister, the trans character, it just goes on and on. Why don't people just talk to each other and trust each other and they could avoid all the unnecessary drama. I did hang on until the end but it was a wasted couple of hours of my life. I was just hoping it would get better. NOPE, if anything it got worse. Lots of movies are predictable but the actors and the story make us watch and we are entertained. This one not so much.