This tiresomely meta sequel is as bad as the original, and there are better examples of this kind of nasty ‘humour’ on YouTube
, this splatterfest horror feature is better than its predecessor much in the same way succeeding Covid variants are better than the early, more lethal strains. One hesitates to dispense any praise lest it encourages the film-makers; then again, the whole mean, bullying spirit of the franchise is to rile critics and “spoilsports” who supposedly don’t get the joke.
In keeping with contemporary horror films’ obsession with “meta” levels of narration, the setup here posits that the first film is a movie within this movie, which explains why the actor who plays Christopher Robin is not the same as the one in the previous film . Nevertheless, as the sketched prologue explains, the Hundred Acre Wood massacres in the movie-within-this-movie did happen in this world.
Writer-director Rhys Frake-Waterfield spends a bit of time building up the world by roping in Simon Callow to play a walking exposition dump. He fills Chris in on the backstory, which involves a Dr Moreau-like evil genius who created the mutants in the first place by experimenting on kidnapped children.
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