Colin Firth could read from a phonebook (do they even still have those?) and make it sound high class, but even he wasn’t quite enough to make the “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” a worthy sequel to the first movie, partly because he’s hardly in it in an effective way.  The Golden Circle misses out on being as entertaining as the first one for several reasons.  First of all, why put Jeff Bridges, Halle Berry (two Academy award winning actors), Michael Gambon and Channing Tatum in a movie and not give them much to do?  Their appearances were short lived and inconsequential.  That was very perplexing.  Also, I found Elton John’s story line (he has been kidnapped) rather sad and seedy instead of humorous and campy.  On a positive note, Pedro Pascal, a fan favorite from Game of Thrones, gets to ham it up as an American agent who uses a lasso instead of a gun.  Mark Strong returns and gives the the best performance as “Merlin.” He is the only surviving member (along with Eggsy played by Taron Egerton) of the Kingsman after their headquarters is blown up by  Julianne Moore in a rather unbelievable plot device.  She  is great, as the over-the-top villain named Poppy, an evil pharmaceutical maker (okay, that’s not a stretch)  who also makes a killer hamburger.  This is not a bad movie, in fact, if you loved the original Kingsman, I think you will like this one.   It does have a few laughs and the kind of over-the-top cartoonish violence that you would expect from such a movie.  if you go, you will be entertained, just not as much as you were with the first one!