SummaryThe sequel to 2017's Psych: The Movie sees Gus and Shawn returning to Santa Barbara after Police Chief Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) starts seeing supernatural phenomena while recovering at a clinic.
SummaryThe sequel to 2017's Psych: The Movie sees Gus and Shawn returning to Santa Barbara after Police Chief Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) starts seeing supernatural phenomena while recovering at a clinic.
It's enough to make you wish Roday and Hill could keep playing these roles forever, releasing a new movie every couple of years to remind us just how great Psych is and just how funny they can be together.
"Psych 2: Lassie Come Home" is a bright light amid the original offerings. ... The return of Shawn Spencer (James Roday) and Burton "Gus" Guster (Dulé Hill) doesn't stretch the story too far (it feels like a typical mid-series episode, just longer than usual).
These movies work as charming follow-ups to the series and as pick-me-ups during a summer that’s basically been postponed. Lassie Come Home goes a step further, opening up a poignant new chapter for these characters and performers.
Mystery-wise, while it does succeed in luring out most of the original series’ core characters as they each try, in their own way, to help Lassiter find some peace, the central scheme is so convoluted that it took me two careful watch-throughs and multiple rewinds to make even shaky sense of its timeline and mechanics. ... And yet, it’s still Psych, and the alchemic reaction that happens when Steve Franks brings James Roday Rodriguez, Dulé Hill, Maggie Lawson, Corbin Bernsen, Kirsten Nelson and Timothy Omundsen together will always feel like something close to magic.
Apart from the work of time, all in this oddball detective show is as it ever was — fast, goofy, old-school double-act comedy that seems modern only in that it is sometimes a little rude.