As someone who didn't think the original was decent by any means, it was still, ultimately, a fairly entertaining watch for the most part. I went in the theater thinking "well, surely this won't be a good movie, but I'm at least expecting to be a tad better than the prequel".

My god, how wrong I was. This felt like an absolute disaster to me. I don't know how Sony greenlit this, it just melts my mind. Awful writing, dreadful 'comic relief', nonsensical editing and pacing, a bunch of story quickly shoehorned in (yes sometimes you have to do that to fit these things in a <2h runtime but you don't have to make it so obvious), and overall a cringy experience.

When I say 'dangerously bad'... I mean that this movie is already doing great in the box office. And any new sequels will continue to do great even if they're absolutely cringy and soulless experiences. I went in expecting a 'maybe slightly decent' movie but I came out feeling ashamed for the money I left in the cinema.