Gonna be impossible to top Sosie Bacon's performance in the original, but I do trust director Parker Finn, so here we go!
Update: Just saw it. It's unbearable.
Do you remember my gripes about Trap, Shyamalan's summer flick starring Josh Hartnett? They revolved almost entirely around the fact that this was a tween concert film masquerading as a thriller, which it so clearly was not.
Welp, Smile 2 is more of the same.
Yes, yes, I love Aladdin's Naomi Scott, but Smile 2 is screwed-up just like Trap and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Rachel Zegler).
All three movies feel like heavy-handed, misguided ploys to appeal to some Swifties demo by featuring young actresses whose "singing in cinema" careers stalled, so Plan B is awkward stabs at staging performance-driven concert thingies with dramatic and/or horror-y chunks folded into nougat.
Weird; just weird.
The films remind me of a 2-pane comic strip I once saw. In pane 1, we see a PPT slide that shows "M&Ms + Debris." In pane 2, we see an executive sheepishly offer a way forward: "What if we call it 'Trail Mix'?"
