A poorer version of "La Grande Bellezza"

Rating: 2/10 (3 July 2016)

Sorrentino's previous movie "La Grande Bellezza" was, for me, the Best movie of 2013. I watched it several times and I was always delighted about how it was able to talk about profound themes in such a sensible and exquisite way.
In this new movie I feel Sorrentino tries to replicate the successful formula and it fails miserably. It's like a poorer version of "La Grande Bellezza". A lot of the themes, scenes and events that take place in the previous movie are present here: the opposition between "old" and "new", a little girl having a tantrum, a friend that talks about a young couple that is falling in love, a religious character that evokes simplicity and kindness Beyond lacking the sense of novelty, the dialogues are hollow and flat and all is done in a way that makes the movie looks pretentious and shallow.
I was hoping for something that would delight me like the previous movie did, and that's exactly what Sorrentino tries to make, but it turned out to be a great deception!