It wants to be a big fantasy action movie, with effects, larger than life heroes and pure evil villains. It also wants to be a sendup of exactly that kind of movie. It turns out that this combination does not work.

This takes aim at class, culture and race in a lively, unsubtle, pull-no-punches kind of way. It also does many other things, some of them very strange. It is extremely entertaining.

It is smart, with likable characters, a very good cast (onscreen as well as via voiceover), a mystery that makes sense and genuinely amusing jokes.

It is cute, with funny moments, and does enough different things, while still feeling a lot like its predecessor. In short, it is fine; I am not mad that I saw it.

The screenplay never puts in the work to get them to see where they went wrong. It is more like their hatred stops making sense to them because they need to cooperate to stay alive.

Bob Odenkirk is, of course, perfect for the material, bringing his dead-pan humor and amusing realism to a deadly situation. It is bloody and explosive, after a strangely slow setup.

It raises a lot of questions about love, gender, mental health, youth and the ability to grow/change, satirizing these concepts and declining to do anything with them, besides using them to mock a generation claiming to be more in touch with their feelings.

Galaxy packs in even more references, jettisoning any semblance of a story to make space for as much as possible. Calling this thin is a massive understatement.

Not only does it feel like a play, it feels like a one-act play, unconvincingly expanded to feature-length. It is an amusing idea that grows tiresome before the end, making the bloody climax drag more than it should.

Its sense of humor is refreshingly goofy, yet it really only has a few jokes. It is an amusing concept that doesn’t have enough ideas to make it worth a look.