{"id":232546,"date":"2026-05-07T03:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-movie-review-monica-2-breaks-internet-with-a-story-many-nigerians-know-too-well\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T03:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:48:52","slug":"nigeria-movie-review-monica-2-breaks-internet-with-a-story-many-nigerians-know-too-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-movie-review-monica-2-breaks-internet-with-a-story-many-nigerians-know-too-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Movie Review &#8211; Monica 2&#8242; Breaks Internet With a Story Many Nigerians Know Too Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">With over 11 million views within days of release, the film is connecting deeply with audiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">When Nigerian Actress and film producer <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uchemontana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uche Montana<\/a><\/strong> released Monica on YouTube on 7 March 2026, she probably didn&#8217;t envisage it garnering as much attention as it has.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Following the success of the first instalment, the sequel premiered on her YouTube platform, Uche Montana TV, on 2 May 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Within days of release, the film surged past&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605060582.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over 11 million views within days of release, the film is connecting deeply with audiences. When Nigerian Actress and film producer Uche Montana released Monica on YouTube on 7 March 2026, she probably didn&#8217;t envisage it garnering as much attention as it has. Following the success of the first instalment, the sequel premiered on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9189,7162,18500,12832,257,4687,393,6665,6399,254,12231],"class_list":["post-232546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breaks","tag-internet","tag-monica","tag-movie","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-review","tag-south-africa-today","tag-story"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}