laughs so the voice cast, i mean, everyone — reese witherspoon, scarlettjohansson, taron egerton, pharrell williams— as in u2's bono — as a retired rock star who moon promises that he knows and says he will get him out of retirement in order to put on this show which he's pitched which he hasn't written, it doesn't exist, which is a sci—fi extravaganza, out of this world, featuring this retired rock star. so you go, ok, this is a lot of stuff, lots of star names, lots of spectacular stuff on screen, i mean, it's a digimation, it's from illumination — the people that gave us the minions movies. the thing is, the first film had a weirdly, kind of, old—fashioned, you know, judy garland—mickey rooney "let's do the show in a barn" kind of feel, and that's what i liked about it. this feels like, we've had a huge success, we need to do it bigger, and we need to do it louder, and we need to do it more spectacular, we need to have more stars, and as a result, it's kind of lost some of the oddball charm of the original. and, you know, ifound myself watching it thinking... i was surprised by how much i liked