This despite the fact that he was earlier playing on a CD-based system, but no matter, he has a console that will take this cartridge and he quickly pops it in, ready to play. Not content to be tossed aside, as the teen sleeps the cursed game takes a new form… a game cartridge. After a quick inspection he tosses it aside, dismissing the board game as out of date before picking up his PS1 controller and diving into the realistic world of 16-bit polygons. Picking up shortly after the first film ended, we find the mischievous board game once again in the hands of an unsuspecting victim. The resulting film is not only not umbridge-worthy, but is a pretty damn good follow up to the original, expanding on the themes and world set up in that movie without feeling the need to explain all of the mystery away.
All of this is to say that, while I enjoy the original film, it is nothing even approaching a sacred text, and news of a long gap sequel starring The “Dwayne Johnson” Rock and Jack Black earned no umbridge from me.
