another review!
Also worth noting that though familiarity with the IP definitely isn’t necessary to enjoy this ride, SLoP1 is Universal’s ninth highest grossing movie and has the strongest debut gross of all illumination franchises (unless you count minions as a separate franchise from despicable me). The second admittedly didn’t match that, being universal’s 31 highest grossing film but that number definitely isn’t bad in its own right, especially being animated). Though box office numbers are different when counting inflation, seeing all the movies the sequel outdid box office wise that are so memorable to us is pretty interesting.
Late Edit: The first movie also the 17th highest grossing animated film of all time, earning more than memorable films like Inside Out, Moana, The Incredibles, Up, The Majority of the shrek films, the entire KFP franchise, ratatouille etc