Perhaps the first enormous’vast’massive’tremendous -name casualty of pandemic cinema closures, Peter Rabbit now acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s to hop again. Will Gluck’s follow-up to his mostly likeable original is pretty much the same in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mula as bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e but pushes the meta-quality even further. It’s fun and frenetic with little in the way of chamomile tea and more in the way of Domhnall Gleeson having a boxing match with David Oyelowo. It may not be in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the Beatrix Potter purists and has a scattershot quality, but remains enjoyable in/with regard to’concerning’regarding its brisk 93 minutes.###Surprisingly Gluck and Patrick Burleigh’s screenplay has knowing fun with responses to the first film. With critics lambasting the original in/with regard to’concerning’regarding misrepresenting Potter’s hero as arrogant, mean-spirited and downright evil, the A plot sees Peter (“Terrible at in/with regard to’concerning’regarding eign languages, great at cartoon violence”) go on a journey from selfish to selfless as, on a trip to Gloucester, he falls in with a Guy Ritchie-esque street gang led by grizzled rabbit crim Barnabas (Lennie James) and comes to realise he is not a wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile sort, after all — it makes in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a more appealing character all round.###It feels a little thin and generic compared to family fare like _The Mitchells Vs The Machines_, but the Byrne-Gleeson combo is winning.###The B plot takes on another pervading swipe at the first flick: the betrayal of the tender whimsy of the original tales in favour of something loud and brash. Here, Bea (Rose Byrne) is wooed by enormous’vast’massive’tremendous -name publisher Nigel Basil-Jones (David Oyelowo, embracing a rare chance to play fun), who wants to take the characters based on her family and put them on a beach or blast them into space. When Bea worries her reserve is going to be turned into a “sassy hipfest purely in/with regard to’concerning’regarding commercial gain”, it sounds like a well-crafted line from a damning Peter Rabbit review.###Aldespite’in spite of’albeit containing some fun moments — Peter and Barnabas play whack-a-mole in a recycling bin; an escape from a domestic kitchen — the first half lacks narrative propel . It takes a hugely convoluted heist at a farmers’ market — replete with that hipster staple, “wildly mediocre folk music” — and a last-reel rescue mission to sharpen the stakes and raise the pulse. Peter’s relations — sisters Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail (Margot Robbie, Elizabeth Debicki and Aimee Horne), and cousin Benjamin Bunny (Colin Moody) — lack distinctive characters (another trait the film pokes fun at) but there is enjoyment to be had in incidental figures: a pig who likes to pass judgement, a fox on a fitness streak and a busking squirrel who uncannily knows the right song to play at the right time.###It feels a little thin and generic compared to family fare like The Mitchells Vs The Machines, but the Byrne-Gleeson combo is winning and Gluck injects just abundant’ample’plentiful slapstick and smarts to justify the last-gasp gag with regards to’concerning’with respect to a sequel.