Junk World

I will preface that despite being a follow-up movie to Junkhead, Junkworld works perfectly fine as a standalone, by virtue of being a prequel set a millenia prior to the first movie.

Honestly I had a lot of fun with this movie. There is a clear improvement on the first one. You can see that there was a lot more hands involved this time around, and as a result the stop-motion is much more fluid while keeping that eerie jerky motion we loved, the designs are so much more gorgeous in their eeriness, and even the voice acting has improved by leaps and bounds.

I also want ... to point out that beyond the usual silliness, and grotesque, this movie has a much more cohesive plot than the first one. I loved Junkhead but truly there were issues of a scenario that was a bit messy or confused at time. In this one, that is not the case. It's cohesive, it's fun, and plays off its straight-forwardness by making the ability of the viewer to anticipate certain events, an actual part of the story.

I am looking forward to the third one

An absolute downgrade from Junkhead that honestly adds nothing to the world. I have the impression it is connective tissue for a third part that continues from Junkhead, but a paragraph would suffice for the little it did.

Most importantly, the real voice acting and overreliance on exposition and explaining completely sour the great things done on the first movie. Even the humour which landed because the delivery was done swiftly in gibberish falls flat, despite staying the same, as there are actual words being spoken, some by very bad voice actors.

By itself it's just a very boring uninteresting movie that goes nowhere, but as a ... sequel to Junkhead it's a bleak representation of what continuing a indie hit with a bigger budget does to one's creative vision: certainly easier for a general audience to swallow now, but it is devoid of flavor and wit.