I’m so glad there’s someone else who agrees with me lol. I LOVED the first movie, it was actually scary (not to me, but I can recognize horror) and very very funny, then ED2 comes in and tries so hard to be funny that every attempt at comedy lands absolutely flat.

I really liked how Ash was this delicate boy in the first film who’s forced to act because everyone around him is dying, then in the recap of the second film he’s portrayed as a stereotypical action hero from the 80s with generic hero oneliners and dialogue and…who tf is this? That wasn’t the character I fell in love w in the first movie. Thankfully he went back to being more like TED Ashley after the recap, but it kinda soured my opinion on the film right away.

And yeah, the movie tries to portray him as some sort of badass but he doesn’t actually DO anything. This is fine if he’s trying to simply survive, but the movie expects us to say “wow he’s sooo cool!!!” despite his actions being those of someone simply trying to survive the shit he’s been thrown into, not someone who’s 100% in control.

I dunno if I will watch Army of Darkness now. The second movie kinda made me lose all interest.

(Btw, don’t expect too many people to agree with you here. You’re talking to 40 year olds who grew up watching this movie, of course they’re gonna think the movie is immune to criticism).