Rating of
2.5/4
Not bad, but the original was far better.
TheWolf - wrote on 08/03/07
Unfortunately this movie is one of those you either really like it or you don't kind of films. The main cast returns in this movie, and they all do a decent job of bringing their characters back to the level that we saw them in the first movie, but this movie doesn't quit reach the same emotional depth that the first one did no matter how hard it tries.
t's the summer time again for Vada Sultenfuss and this time she has assignment to do. She has to write about someone she really admires, but has never met. Vada almost immediately decides to write about her mother, but realises she only knows a little bit about her. Vada then manages to persuade her father to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother. Vada's father agrees and once she gets to LA, her Uncle Phil puts his girlfriends young son, Nick in charge of looking after Vada. Nicks not happy about this as he wants to spend his summer, doing what he wants to do. When he finally agrees, he Vada go on a long and difficult, but interesting search for facts about her mother.
I thought the movie was ok, it didn't exactly live up to the original, but it was nice to see the characters return, almost just like looking in on them a few years later and checking up on them, seeing where their lives have gone.
