Liked the first one, wasn't a perfect movie but had balance and the characters had better chemistry and development. Here the story and dialogue is all over the place without being fleshing out so your not connected, the plot seems sped/cranked up to get the movie back on track from scenes that goes on a little to long with bad dialogue and no real importance for the movie. And it's carnage and PG13, why?! This movie didn't need much to be a much better film, could even have kept most of the scenes, just write better dialogue, jokes and flesh out the plot a little (they have good actors, just bad lines). And venoms voice, less is more, it's just yelling with effects (right amount first film, this one just makes you aware that you find it ennoying). This movie gave me no other impression then a money grab, they know people like venom and carnage, put a PG13 for bigger audience/demographic so as long CGI venom and carnage are in the movie we don't need any effort in the writing (may be the pandemic faults with the curse of many bad movies being rushed out). As people have already said, they could have just kept the end scene from this one and replace the end scene from the first one, give themselves more time to write a fleshed out story and good dialogue.