


In all the bathroom humor - yes, “Buck crack” is a joke - there are attempts to make the adults laugh: “I love the smell of skunky gas in the morning” and “Use your feeling words.” There is always a tiny pause when creatures hang in midair before falling and there are lots of martial arts flips. Donkin, a longtime part of the franchise, doesn’t mess with the visual language. Or as one creature notes: “What they lack in intelligence, they make up for with bumbling ineptitude.”ĭirector John C.

But it mostly pays off since little viewers will see a pair of kids standing up for themselves and learning to be courageous. Making Eddie and Crash the heroes this time is a bit of a gamble since they’ve always been just humorous sidekicks.
