The beginning is very good; the end is acceptable (and stolen from Buffy — which certainly took the idea elsewhere, probably in mangas or something); in-between it’s quite dull and… very short. 1h24 total? The first movie was 14 minutes longer! It’s a scam.

I feel like I just watched a TV show episode (a big-budget one, though) with no story, script, characters or point, and I’m going to forget it as fast as I saw it — whereas the first movie quite stuck. As a bonus, I don’t like Lara Flynn Boyle’s real voice (never heard it before) and it’s becoming much too obvious that Danny Elfman plagiarizes himself (although it’s not entirely his fault, considering he has to write a theme for a character quite reminiscent of the alien woman in Mars Attacks, so it’s no wonder he ends up using the same sound schemes).