This was enjoyable. It wasn't great, but it's still worth watching. Calling BS on influencers, calling BS on PR narratives when in reality people are using each / co-dependent, calling BS on god like founder myth stories, mysterious covid treatments, all these themes were woven pretty well into the story, and given they're all quite new, they felt fresh. This was not a stupid movie at all.

Now, the movie had too big a budget, owing to the success of the first one and Hollywood's eagerness to rehash past successes rather than take new risks. This resulted in a film that was way too long for the story it wanted to tell with a lot of over the top scenes & set. It should have been edited way down, but then you wouldn't get to see where all the money went.

We've all experienced the recipe in this movie 100x, it works, it's enjoyable. There's nothing new here, which is why the movie should have been shorter. This way the social commentary & smart bits would have hit harder. The ending is a bit rushed and childish, but the hate in the reviews is excessive.