movie review - Beverly Hills Cop II
We had MacDonalds delivered again, so I suggested we watch the sequel to the movie we watched the last time we did that. We enjoyed it; I was impressed with how they managed to maintain something of the tone of the first one. A rare case of success not ruining everything, I suppose. The kids pointed out that some of the character growth in the first movie had been rolled back to allow the same dynamic to occur with this outing and I am pleased to see that the education I've been paying for all these years has been sinking in.
The violence is at once dialed way up but also made more cartoonish. I feel the obnoxious New-York-style chief of police was a bit over the top but I can imagine the actor had a part in that as well as the director.
Recommended.