God's Not Dead 2

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God’s Not Dead 2 is the sequel to 2014’s God’s Not Dead (obviously). It deals with a teacher (played by Melissa Joan Hart) who brings up God in her class. From there, she must prove in court that God exists. Amid the rest of the movie are a bunch of subplots that I really don’t care about. The sad thing about it is, there are some of these I should understand and care about. A teenage girl dealing with the death of her brother should be interesting (albeit a little cliched). The problem is: When the acting and writing really doesn’t feel that invested, why should I be invested? The only actor that I felt genuinely tried was Melissa Joan Hart. Everyone else either seemed like they were plucked off the street, having never acted before, or were just waiting for their checks to clear. Because the movie is Christian and with a Christian message. I don’t have a problem with this, necessarily. The problem is that so much of this movie hinges on the court case involving Melissa Joan Hart swaying the court, the ending is fairly predictable. The characters aren’t characters. Their development is paper-thin and surface-deep. The atheist characters that are meant to be the movie’s antagonists are cartoon levels of one-dimensional. As for the Christian characters that we are supposed to support, only two of them work for me to a degree. Melissa Joan Hart and the teenage girl feel the most developed to me, even if it is shallow. There are so many subplots in addition to the main plot, and they all feel like they are fighting for dominance. The biggest problem God’s Not Dead 2 suffers from is that it’s just incredibly dull. There are one or two decent performances, and some decent ideas. But, when the execution is lacking, the final recommendation I can make is just not to see it. 

2 / 10