In all honesty, I HIGHLY respect Master P, his cause for gentrification, entrepreneurship, and the fact that he and Romeo Miller invested in this film themselves without relying on any othee companies. Believe me, I TRULY respect that. BUT THIS MOVIE ITSELF....where to start?
Okay, at least AJ Johnson came back alongside Master P, John Witherspoon and Tom Lister Jr. But Tom Lister Jr.'s part was small and wasted in this film. AJ Johnson is not as funny in this film.
One of the problems I had with this film is that it is all over the place. The plot is nonexistent. I really had no idea what this film was really supposed to be about. They tried to fit so many concepts in one film. Like, you would think this film would be about a character who looks like a baby, or a fast food restaurant going out of business, or Blue's long lost son played by Fatboy SSE, or the phones, or this character trying to be a rapper, crazy policeman etc. There was this scene, which barely had anything to do with anything, with Black had a phone call from his ex girlfriend who was using emotional blackmail for him to get back with her. That's something I would see in the deleted scenes section of the DVD.
There were way too many people in this film. Like, you have well known actors/actresses, social media stars who were trying -- I repeat: TRYING -- to be funny, but were stale, and there were people who were trying to get their big break.
The film had corny and horrible jokes, there was absolutely no plot, it seems like you're watching a rough cut of a movie, and like the first film, they make it seem like a Friday film. You have Michael Blackson and Clifton Powell in this film.
DC Young Fly was in this sequel, he tried.
I apologize for this coming off as a rant, but it is embarrassing and very insulting that it took until 2017 to write this sequel, July 2018 to shoot this sequel, September 2018 to start post production, then July 2019 to release this sequel in few movie theaters and Video on Demand and it turns out to be an overhyped overrated THROWN TOGETHER piece of trash.
This sequel came out 21 years after the original and it's all sloppy. It's like I was watching an early rough cut or a rough draft of a film before scenes got cut and/or reshot. They tried so hard to make this film funny. When you TRY to be funny, then you won't be funny. It's supposed to be natural.
This sequel, and that so-called sequel of How High, has really got me thinking "Should they still make Friday 4 or just move on?".
I'm really worried for Friday 4 at this point since it's been nearly 17 years since the third film has been released, and I love the first 3 movies.
It's like: *Madea Family Funeral comes out, with recycled jokes* "Still want Last Friday?" Yes. *How High 2 comes out as a horrible unfunny mediocre straight to MTV film without Redman or Method Man* "Still want Last Friday?" Yes, as long as it doesn't end up like How High 2. *I Got The Hook Up 2 comes out as an unfunny thrown together quote-on-quote masterpiece which tried to fit so many people and concepts in one film and tried to be like a Friday film* "Still want Last Friday?" *refraining from losing faith and hope*...Will it happen? Will it be funny? Will it be good? Will it have a good story? Will it have the original cast? We've been let down this year.
But back to this I Got The Hook Up 2 atrocity. I have nothing against Master P, the first I Got the Hook Up was fine and I liked Repos. But the writing in this was awful, the editing was lazy. There was a shot that was REUSED in the beginning of this film. The production value and the causes were good. But this flick we got was a convoluted mess, it made no sense, there was overacting, mediocre acting, bad jokes, corny jokes, etc.
This is what happens when a sequel to a hit movie that the audiences love takes too long to get greenlit.
Okay, at least AJ Johnson came back alongside Master P, John Witherspoon and Tom Lister Jr. But Tom Lister Jr.'s part was small and wasted in this film. AJ Johnson is not as funny in this film.
One of the problems I had with this film is that it is all over the place. The plot is nonexistent. I really had no idea what this film was really supposed to be about. They tried to fit so many concepts in one film. Like, you would think this film would be about a character who looks like a baby, or a fast food restaurant going out of business, or Blue's long lost son played by Fatboy SSE, or the phones, or this character trying to be a rapper, crazy policeman etc. There was this scene, which barely had anything to do with anything, with Black had a phone call from his ex girlfriend who was using emotional blackmail for him to get back with her. That's something I would see in the deleted scenes section of the DVD.
There were way too many people in this film. Like, you have well known actors/actresses, social media stars who were trying -- I repeat: TRYING -- to be funny, but were stale, and there were people who were trying to get their big break.
The film had corny and horrible jokes, there was absolutely no plot, it seems like you're watching a rough cut of a movie, and like the first film, they make it seem like a Friday film. You have Michael Blackson and Clifton Powell in this film.
DC Young Fly was in this sequel, he tried.
I apologize for this coming off as a rant, but it is embarrassing and very insulting that it took until 2017 to write this sequel, July 2018 to shoot this sequel, September 2018 to start post production, then July 2019 to release this sequel in few movie theaters and Video on Demand and it turns out to be an overhyped overrated THROWN TOGETHER piece of trash.
This sequel came out 21 years after the original and it's all sloppy. It's like I was watching an early rough cut or a rough draft of a film before scenes got cut and/or reshot. They tried so hard to make this film funny. When you TRY to be funny, then you won't be funny. It's supposed to be natural.
This sequel, and that so-called sequel of How High, has really got me thinking "Should they still make Friday 4 or just move on?".
I'm really worried for Friday 4 at this point since it's been nearly 17 years since the third film has been released, and I love the first 3 movies.
It's like: *Madea Family Funeral comes out, with recycled jokes* "Still want Last Friday?" Yes. *How High 2 comes out as a horrible unfunny mediocre straight to MTV film without Redman or Method Man* "Still want Last Friday?" Yes, as long as it doesn't end up like How High 2. *I Got The Hook Up 2 comes out as an unfunny thrown together quote-on-quote masterpiece which tried to fit so many people and concepts in one film and tried to be like a Friday film* "Still want Last Friday?" *refraining from losing faith and hope*...Will it happen? Will it be funny? Will it be good? Will it have a good story? Will it have the original cast? We've been let down this year.
But back to this I Got The Hook Up 2 atrocity. I have nothing against Master P, the first I Got the Hook Up was fine and I liked Repos. But the writing in this was awful, the editing was lazy. There was a shot that was REUSED in the beginning of this film. The production value and the causes were good. But this flick we got was a convoluted mess, it made no sense, there was overacting, mediocre acting, bad jokes, corny jokes, etc.
This is what happens when a sequel to a hit movie that the audiences love takes too long to get greenlit.