Too many special effects - boring

Rating: 5/10 (8 August 2006)

I've just seen the movie in the cinema. The story was quite alright. I felt, though, that the actors spent too much time trying to crack slapstick jokes. Can't hear any more actors' "oh oh"s or "oops"...
The storyboard also spent way too much time and distracted the story on CGI sequences. These are so boring to watch... Where have all the stunt men gone? Ignoring laws of physics so trite and obviously in CGI "stunt" scenes really drops me off the movie. I was rather impressed that there was a "real" watermill scene indeed in the movie showing *real* actors in action for... was it half a second?
After all, almost every character from the first movie had a reprise. And you could literally see the story authors' minds working hard on how they could possibly fit any character back in. With more or less success...
I personally found that Kevin McNally lost character in this second episode. Too clean, too positive...