I enjoyed the first movie. It had it's faults, like Newt's involvement in the story was largely irrelevant.

But this movie was just ... boring. There wasn't much of a story. It was mostly concerned with world building, introducing new characters and new story threads.

It was a bridge between the first movie and the third movie but it wasn't a movie in its own right.

For some reason Credence returns (not much of a spoiler if you look at the cast list). The character isn't compelling or interesting and somehow, the more time spent on him the less interesting he was.

I'm hoping number 3 will be better.