2. It Was Made By First Timers
The original film was made by production duo Hammer & Tongs (director Garth Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith). If you look at their credits to date, you'll see one movie since this one, and none before it. So, the director is a first timer, and one of the producers was a first timer. Surely there were more experienced people involved, right? Well, another of the producers was Robbie Stamp, whose only other credit was producing a video game. Then Douglas Adams was a producer, despite the fact he was dead. Then there's the executive producer, whose only credit before this was for The Pacifier. I'm amazed this movie turned out as well as it did. Anyway, the point is with this amateur-ish ragtag group, they still pulled off a successful, high-budget film. If a sequel were to be commissioned, they would at least have
some film experience this time around. Or, a different route could be taken and hire a more professional crew to do it. Either way, it could work out really well.