Another little favor (Simple please, United States /2025). Address: Paul Feig. Script: Darcey Bell, Jessica Sharzer, Laeta Kalogridis. Photograph: John Schwartzman. Edición: Brent White. Music: Theodore Shapiro. List: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Allison Janney, Elizabeth Perkins. Available at: Prime Video. Duración: 120 minutes. Our opinion: Buena.
It makes no sense to ask, at this point of the 21st century, what they did a sequel of a certain film. The film and streaming industry work thus, when something is successful it becomes an intellectual property piece that serves to attract the public again that applauded it. What is worth questioning is how to make a sequel. Each decision will present the opportunity to stick more or less that first film, and the way in which it approaches or moves away is an abyss of creative opportunities.
In Another little favorthe decisions seem to have to accentuate the most soap opera side of the original. To refresh the memory, A little favor He followed the complicated relationship between Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick) and Emily Nelson (Blake Lively), who become friends through her children, who are schoolmates. Stephanie’s fascination with the sophisticated and mysterious Emily, surrounds her in a game of betrayals and crimes. The sequel finds the separate “amnemigas”: Stephanie presenting the book of true crime who wrote about the story of Emily, who is in jail. Not for a long time, of course, there would be no sequel.
It is necessary to clarify that the first film had an elegant black comedy tone, which linked the humor and visual delight of fabulous houses and clothing, with the darkness of the crimes. A little favor He had a playful spirit that made her enjoyable, but towards the end, the accumulation of delusional turns and the telenovela tradition (the surprise revelation of twins, for example), took away a little of his charm.
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The sequel is an iteration of decreasing interest, just because It turns through those impossible turns, although with humor and a constant wink to the spectator. Following a rule of sequels, which indicates that you have to upload the bet, Another little favor It does so in terms of bringing to the story towards the ridiculous, in multiple ways, generating fatigue in the viewer.
Even There is a greater bet in the visual delight proposed by the first. The fabulous landscapes of Capri wear the film, without a doubt, but they still do not win the impact of the impeccable tailoring of Ralph Lauren that Lively lucia in the first (in this type of films, these elements that may seem decorative are crucial).
The best scenes of Another little favor They are the ones that have Kendrick and Lively together. The strange chemistry between the two and the ability to continue building that toxic friendship that the protagonists achieved from the first film, illuminate the screen And they are in a tone that remembers why A simple favor It was fun.
The actresses have their much in this, of course, but they also benefit from Paul Feig’s work, one of the directors who have best captured female relations, through comedy, in recent years. The director knows how to give space to actresses, either to their protagonists, such as other great performers in secondary roles, such as Allison Janney and Elizabeth Perkins. But the script restricts these characters and is less generous even with others, such as Stephanie’s literary manager or an FBI agent.
In the search to create a kind of crazy thriller, which hides their emptiness in multiple plot turns, the characters lose their delineation and possibility of showing off, that is, what usually does to an attractive film. In this sense, Another little favor Top siege with obstacles generated by its lack of focus.
