Another small favor, the review of the film set in Italy

Watch Another little favor and screaming at the trash is synonymous with a partial and superficial understanding of the operation carried out by Paul Feig. Returning to the characters played by Blake Lively And Anna Kendrick in A small favor, based on the novel of the same name by Darcey Bell At the time and, now, released by literary support and freely developed in the sequel scripted by Jessica Sharzer and Laeta Kalogridis, the director accentuates and exaggerates what was already accentuated and exaggerated in the first film, operating completely intentionally.

It is no coincidence that the 2018 film is appealed by most like a Guilty Pleasureone of those products of which the limits and excesses are recognized, but with which you cannot help but have fun. This is what also happens with the return of the personages of Stephanie Smothers and Emily Nelson, who were previously only partially fallen in a pop and modernly melodramatic frame, with their return they give life to a real show through the sunny streets of Capri.

Another little favor Between weddings, murders and old friendships through the streets of Capri

Another little favor He resumes where we left the protagonists, with Emily (Lively) in prison accused of the murder of the twin sister and Stephanie (Kendrick) intent on exploiting her intuition in the True Crime to write books and present television programs. If it were not that the “Woman without face”as appointed in the book written by Stephanie on the story that saw her involved together with Emily, she suddenly returns to her life, inviting her to the wedding with the Italian mafia Dante Versano (Michele Morrone) and asking her to act as a bridesmaid. Thus, as in all dysfunctional friendships, made of threats and retaliation, the woman is forced to accept, taking a plane that will bring her to the Neapolitan island in which not only she will have to try not to be killed by Emily, but also to demonstrate her innocence after being accused of being the culprit of A new series of worrying murders.

That the tone of Another little favor It has been dismissed by the Name that has made the first film is clear since one of the initial sequences, when Stephanie is tracked down by Emily and the two meet for the first time nothing less than in front of an audience. The mother/blogger/detective/author of books is ready for the reading of her novel when, High heels and sent passage (but rigorously in slow motion)his Nemesis enters the shop where the presentation is held with an offer which, given that the film himself quotes The godfatherStephanie cannot refuse. The conversation is surreal as all the dialogues will be during the work and, at the same time, perfectly aware of the frame in which it is inserted. The protagonists punish themselves, make fun of, realize the absurdity in which they were involved the first time and are almost amused by being able to repeat their unlikely experience, including Stephanie herself even if she would never admit it aloud. There is rhythm, there is dynamism, there is a dose of nonsense on which a director like Feig knows how to work and that is magnified as the film goes on.

A ambiguous divertissement (stra) full of thriller and melò

At the notation of this there are Emily/Blake Lively’s outfits. The style of the character of the assassin scammer had been one of the focus at the time of the release of A small favorover time it has become a distinctive sign of the film and, therefore, an element on which the sequel could not exempt itself from pointing. The character’s clothes increase in Space, tulle, feathers and volumes sequence in sequence. A will of the film whose extravagance is also underlined by the protagonists, with Stephanie who underlines the immoderate clothing of the friend/enemy in a scene, which to make simple shopping parades in black skirt and white shirt embellished with a thousand necklaces and a hat whose tense is so large that it can be able to cover the entire air of Capri.

If therefore Another little favor he knows he is a divertissementan unlikely and perverse game between Melò and Thriller, then he remains to play. Ambiguity, intrigues, textures and under plots are fueled by a story that is not afraid to dare. Also because he knows well that his main audience can only be the same he found in the first film an authentic (S) cult, repeating and pumping himself, perhaps waiting for an even more rough third, Camp and deliberately foolish chapter.