Movie Thoughts: The Big Trip 3: Race Around the World (2024)

 

• Released: July 11th, 2024
• Directed by: Vasiliy Rovenskiy
• Running time: 1h 25min
• Rating 2/5

Synopsis

Mic-Mic and his friends are once more tasked with returning several babies to their homes, all the while Mic-Mic looks for his own baby who was lost. Meanwhile, Ron the vulture and the Python are scheming to get revenge.

My Thoughts

Yep, still bad. Again, not as bad as the first, but still a painfully bad watch.

I'll again give this one credit that it wasn't as hyperactive and noisy and obnoxious as the first movie was in its first thirty minutes. But that's not much credit, honestly.

By this movie, movie three, it's also painfully obvious how lazy the writing is (as if it wasn't before), because they keep recycling the exact same plot. Heck, even within this movie itself they recycle the same plot (deliver the baby to its home) about four-five times. I just want them to do something different with this franchise already, because honestly the plot already felt tired by movie two. This movie doing the exact same thing another four times is just exhausting. Enough with the baby deliveries already, have these characters go on another adventure for once.

The villains are also, once again, recycled, with the baddies of movies one and two now teaming up to form an honestly not so competent force to work against our heroes. I'd rather they'd just invented a new villain, rather than recycling the old stuff.

The humor is also still painfully unfunny and there are a few brief moments of utter annoyance once again, but it's thankfully not as bad as the first film. 

The animation also seems to have gotten worse again. I praised movie two for, while not looking great, at least looking better than the original. But the animation here, particularly in the climax on the snake, is again pretty darn bad. 

So yeah, bad movie. I hope this franchise ends here, because it just feels tired and worn out by now. Either do something new with your movie, or don't even try making sequels at all if you're gonna be this lazy.