Detetives do Prédio Azul 2: O Mistério Italiano

Detetives do Prédio Azul 2: O Mistério Italiano is a 2018 Brazilian film, directed by Vivianne Jundi, based on the series of Detetives do Prédio Azul, shown on the Gloob channel. The film was released on December 13, 2018 and in February 2019 on platforms.

Plot
During Expo-Bruxo, the biggest magic event in the world, Pippo, Bento and Sol travel to Italy to investigate the disappearance of the sorceress Berenice and a group of children, who were tricked and kidnapped by the wizards Máximo and Mínima Buongusto. With teamwork and the help of Pippo's Italian grandfather, Nonno Giuseppe, they promise to unravel yet another mystery and prove that for the Blue Building Detectives nothing ends in pizza.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Unlike the show, this movie manages to use content from the ninth, tenth, and eleventh seasons of the show well.
 * 2) The film's plot is very good, which focuses on us second generation detectives (Pippo, Bento and Sol) having to save their parents from an eternal standstill and all the children in the contest, including Berenice, after being kidnapped by the movie's villains, thinking that it would fulfill their dreams of becoming famous in music.
 * 3) This movie does a better job than the first movie in showing the landscapes outside the building with lots of amazing sets of Rio de Janeiro, Niterói and the cities that were filmed in Italy, plus the movie also has lots of amazing sets around it around.
 * 4) The characters as always are nice and some even gained a lot of development in the movie and Pippo's grandfather is the best new character in the movie who shows great affection for his grandson.
 * 5) The movie's humor is also a huge improvement over the first movie, with some jokes from the movie being really funny and the fart jokes that the first movie had were completely removed in this movie.
 * 6) The acting of the cast as usual is still great.
 * 7) The mages Máximo and Mínima Buongusto, while not as good compared to the villains in the first movie, were big threats to detectives and had a decently good and well-executed plan as they wanted to steal all the magic from all the mages from the big Italian event to them, though it is not said why they tried to steal all magic.
 * 8) Lots of good dubbing in the movie, especially in the amazing scene where Pippo is forced by the wizards to sing the song "Aquarela" with his voice to save his grandfather.
 * 9) The clímax scenes between Pippo, Bento, Sol and Berenice against the movie's villains were very good and brought good morals to the movie about altruism, friendship and togetherness.
 * 10) Healthy ending with the kids managing to save their parents from the shutdown, and with Pippo's grandfather going to live with him and his father for the holidays and then the kids going to celebrate the mystery solved by singing a new clip they made of inspiration from the events that took place in the movie and this is another ending that could have been a great ending for the entire series if the series hadn't continued.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The plot seems to be a bit simple to some people and the plot also feels quite crowded and unfocused.
 * 2) Some elements of the film are stolen from the first film.
 * 3) Berenice is very nasty and selfish at the beginning of the movie.
 * 4) While the movie's villains are decent, they can also be seen as obnoxious as the movie never explains why they want to carry out their diabolical plan.
 * 5) The film lacks any sense of danger or urgency, as the film informs them that if the detectives don't defeat the mages, their parents (except Severino) will be paralyzed forever, but as this is loosely defined, there is never a sense that they are really running out of time.

Reception
Along with the first film, the film received a lot of positive reviews from the show's fans and critics and with some below average reviews and some people even found this film better than the first film.

The film currently scores 5.8/10 on IMDb.

Trivia

 * This film is longer than the first film and shorter than the third film.
 * It is the second and final film in the show released in the 2010s.
 * This is the second and penultimate film on the show to involve the show's second-generation detectives.
 * Main production started in Rio de Janeiro, filming was shot from the end of 2018.
 * In addition to Rio de Janeiro, the filming of the film also took place in Niterói and in the Puglia region of Italy.
 * Among the locations in Puglia are cities full of particularities and very touristy, such as Alberobello, Conversano and Cisternino.