'Norm Of The North: The Keys To The Kingdom' Trailer: Yes, This Is A Sequel

‘Norm Of The North: The Keys To The Kingdom’ Trailer: Yes, This Is A Sequel

Do you remember the polar bear movie starringRob Schneider? With a talking bear that decides to visit New York City? Neither do many people, but for some reason, we’re getting a sequel.

Norm of the North: The Keys to the Kingdomis the follow-up to the 2016 Trevor Wall movieNorm of the North, which follows up on the titular bear, now voiced byAndrew Toth, as he gets the keys to the city because people love talking bears, I don’t know. And in a direct rip-off of the far superior talking bear movie,Paddington 2, he gets framed for a crime he didn’t commit. But judging by theNorm of the North: The Keys to the Kingdomtrailer, this sequel is nowhere on the same level asPaddington 2.

Norm of the North The Keys to the Kingdom Trailer

The poor animation and the potty humor of the firstNorm of the North— which for a while held the illustrious 0% rating onRotten Tomatoes— becomes even more egregious in what’s basically a direct-to-video sequel, except it’s getting a limited theatrical release. The awful early 2000s video game cutscene animation coupled with a completely nonsense plot makesThe Keys to the Kingdomlook profoundly awful. But hey, it was pretty funny when that polar bear fell on that helicopter, right?

I’m just baffled thatNorm of the North— which in addition to receiving a critical bashing, bombed at thebox office— received a sequel at all. But hey, any way to give kids more mindless movie fodder.

Here is the official synopsis toNorm of the North: The Keys to the Kingdom:

Norm, the newly crowned polar bear king of the arctic, travels to New York to accept the keys to the city. But Norm goes from hero to villain when he’s framed for a crime he didn’t commit! While he is trying to clear his good name, back in the Arctic a vicious bottled-water company has moved in and is starting to steal the ice. Norm must rely on his friends, both old and new, to clear his good name and help save his kingdom in a winner take all hockey match in this Dove Family-Approved for all ages film.

Norm of the North: The Keys to the Kingdomhits select theaters and video on demand onJanuary 11, 2019.