Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

I skipped the first part due to the terrible reviews, but I gave the second part a chance thanks to the happier reviews and it definitely didn't offend. It's terrible B-movie rubbish with a non-existent plot, unlikeable characters and visuals that are still underwhelming compared to the competition, but it's at least passable. If there's anything worth praising, though, it's the make-up effects (Christopher Robin looks really cool) and the gore. In the final part at the disco the carnage is such that I was very pleasantly surprised. Occasionally they still scare with horrible CGI (fire, acid), but mostly it's practical effects, and the cutting off heads of pretty women was decent. (The hand in the throat is also impressive). You can’t deny the creativity and fan zeal of some of the fatalities, so thumbs up up for that. If you want a trashy slasher with focus on gore where nothing else works, you won't be offended, those with higher standards can skip it. It's a pity that it's taken too seriously, if the film had a lighter vibe, added some wisecracks and hot girls showing their tits, I think the final impression would have been more pleasant, because that's all the people behind it can do. 6/10. (12.06.2024)

I decided to skip the first part with a clear conscience and moved straight to the second one, where fairly boundary-pushing and excessively brutal gore was promised. Well, no. There might have been gore, but the style in which it is all conceived and how totally illogical, anarchic, and hilariously messy it all is certainly does not deserve a good word. Scenes follow each other totally randomly, characters appear there randomly and have random dialogues, and the whole thing is absolutely disjointed and unworthy of watching. The motivation of the local animal killers has still not been clarified to me, and I believe that ignorance of the first part is not to blame for that. :D It really was quite painful. The only positive points I would give for a fairly decent performance by Christopher Robin. :D (17.08.2024)

The closing credits are rolling and I am unsuccessfully trying to close my mouth open with fascination. It's not that the second Winnie-the-Pooh is exceptionally terrible, it's about how terrible it is. Here, some basic craft rules fail, such as scene continuity (police officers are killed in one scene, several scenes later they are happily answering phones again), sound mixing, or something like VFX quality control that would prevent digital touch-ups from floating around where they should be firmly anchored instead. There are films from Asylum, films from Brian Yuzna, Uwe Boll, and forever with us will be Danzig's Verotika, however, putting this into major cinemas, which should, among other things, be able to offer some production certainty to an unknowing audience as part of the fight for its preservation, seems really funny to me. However, during a home screening, I surprisingly enjoyed it as standard non-artistic trash, where the absence of filmmaking skills is successfully supplemented by a lack of restraint. Everything happens here terribly quickly, unjustifiably, insanely brutally, and due to the inability to build a scene in any way, it doesn't have time to bore with slow, Blum-like approaches to nothing. There are attempts at scares and silly pop culture references, but both are so poorly done that it doesn't even get on your nerves. In short, entertainment in the background of some party, which someone is selling for... how much is the average ticket to the movies today? (07.08.2024)