Angelica Chand

It’s cute enough but it’s missing the slightly sad but sweet feeling that Gnomeo and Juliet gave us. There are a number of inconsistencies, the missing adorable flamingoes, the lack of follow up with Nanette and Paris, the disappearance of Tybalt, Juliet’s character shifting from her usual feisty and prove-em-wrong self to....well to a rather predictable mumish character, the list goes on. The appeal of the first movie was the two adorable houses and their quirky little flourishes. When you move away from that you’re left with the task of creating an outlandish and overdone quest of sorts. I know we’re operating on over done stories but moving away from Gnomeo and Juliet as the main characters could have been done a bit better. For starters, the story could have centred around Featherstone or even Nanette and Paris but then again I’m not a director. All I’m saying is, Sherlock Gnomes missed out on continuing a lot of good plot points from Gnomeo & Juliet and moving the gnomes to London left us wondering how the two feuding neighbors got together in the first place. In my opinion, a movie centred on Gnomeo and Juliet trying to get their respective house and garden owners together would have made for a better movie.

As someone who loves the first movie and enjoys the second I was disappointed. I was already hesitant when i saw the trailers as giving Drac a love interest subverts the main point of the first movie which was the whole reason Drac realised he was wrong about humans. The whole reason Johnny and Mavis got together was because she read her mothers birthday gift which tells her a "zing" is something that only happens once in your life and when Mavis tells her father that she thought she "zinged" with Johnny he realised he cant keep her from him. The other monsters berate Drac telling him a song is something that only happens once in your life and so Drac goes to get Johnny and he and Mavis get together. Also, how the lady Buveau and Drac' s love was so powerful Johnny could still feel it busting the Castle Buveau. I don't know it just ruins it for me. The second one was cute but to be perfectly honest the first movie should have been a standalone just like in the good old days of 2007. The first movie was beautiful, loving, and wholesome. The dad changing diapers, honestly in their relationship and how much they trust each other and how Drac isn't too proud to admit his mistakes. How Mavis is the aggressor in the relationship with Johnny most of the time. Basically i loved the first movie! It was wholesome and adorable and i hate this one lok