Well, perhaps the production team behind Brazil’s Around the World with Netflix offering “Rich in Love” took criticism of their “series of limp mistaken identity mixups” rom-com to heart.

They got to make a sequel with the same beautiful, rich-but-earnestly-trying-to-contribute characters and tried to put them in a story with some cultural relevence and headline news import.

“Rich in Love 2” isn’t just about the further up-and-down romantic adventures of rich tomato empire heir Teto (Danilo Mesquita) and med-student-of-substance, now Dr. Paula (Giovanna Lancellotti).

A quartet of screenwriters, including director Bruno Garotti, take our “farmers tomato coop” organizers into Amazonia, where they meet and learn from the indigenous peoples, folks who know where the first tomato came from (Not “Italy,” kids.), see their struggles and get mixed-up in the illegal mining that threatens the rainforest, the river and everyone who eats fish that come from the Mighty Amazon.

There’s a pregnancy, a secret family legacy and a budding gay romance, too. And they pack all this onto a 90 minute movie. No, it doesn’t necessarily fit together and the serious subjects are paid lip service and little else. But there are worse subtexts to slap onto a Hallmark quality romance set in exotic Amazonia.

Tomato heir Teto is still impulsive, still casually rich and still self-absorbed, even when it comes to his doctor girlfriend. But Paula’s going on an extended medical mission deep into the Amazon, bringing health care to the remote tribes with the earnest and righteous Dr. Tawan (Adanilo Reis).

Teto is jealous. Teto is stricken. Teto has taken his eye off the ball with regards to the coop he developed with pal Monique (Lellê) and the farm employee son he grew up with and calls his “brother,” Igor (Jaffar Bambirra). His tomato barron father’s about to stop buying their produce, which will put Teto Fresca out of business.

Well, Paula’s off to the interior. Why not…move our operation there, to Porto Romansa, line up farmers and buyers, maybe Dad’s old pal/rival (Roney Villela)? It turns out, Everaldo has an interest in Teto Fresca — as a company for his daughter (Aline Dias) to run.

With their coop about to go bust, Igor and biz-partner wife Alana (Fernanda Paes Leme) expecting a baby and Monique fretting about wasting years on a project and having nothing to show for it, the incentive to sell is there. Just not for Teto.

The rich boy, fond of big, tin-eared gestures for his beloved Paula, needs to Jetski after her as she and her colleague boat off on rounds. Teto must run out of gas, get lost and get hurt so that the Hipanaa people and no-nonsense Wunin (Kay Sara) can heal him and, help him “connect with the forest,” with his non-rich fellow Brazilians and “understand yourself better (in Portugeuse, subtitled, or dubbed).”

Paula, in turn, will learn about Native cures and medicines as she and Dr. Tawan try and find out what’s making people sick. Could it be something getting in the water from the illegal mining going on right under their noses?

Somebody’s going to have to dress up as a macaw costumed folk dancer to get into a gala in Manaus. Somebody’s going to overhear dirty deals in the making. Somebody will need to pretend to be Teto and Paula to convince Everaldo to buy them out.

Honestly, hat’s off for these filmmakers trying to make all the “issue” points, show us this world and make a case for its jeopardy in a fluffy, wish-fulfillment romance.

It doesn’t really work. The happy couple becomes unhappy in exactly the way of 1786 romances that came before “Rich in Love.” Teto’s “transformation” is ordained by the script, not organic to the story. The villains are so obvious they might as well black hats.

“Rich in Love” wasn’t very good. “Rich in Love 2” isn’t either. But at least this time they set out to try and show and say something of import, which makes a decent consolation prize for a movie that will draw viewers based on the pretty people/dull story of the first film.

Rating: TV-MA, threats of violence, sex

Cast: Danilo Mesquita, Giovanna Lancellotti, Lellê, Jaffar Bambirra, Aline Dias, Fernanda Paes Leme, Adanilo Reis, Kay Sara and Roney Villela.

Credits: Directed by Bruno Garotti, scripted by Bruno Garotti, Sylvio Gonçalves, Maíra Oliveira and Jama Wapichana. A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:30