I think I liked it.
Had the absolute worst theater experience ever. Ended up getting free passes cause there were 20 or so people complaining after it was over. Yeah im 30 and

but why spend $11 to go to a movie and laugh/talk/text through the whole thing

. And not just a handful of people. This was half the theater

. I dont feel a bit bad about pirating movies anymore.

at the theaters who let this go on. Yea im

, had to rant.
As for the movie, from what I could tell between the 14 yr olds cackling and text typing sounds, it was a good followup. Maybe a little too heavy on the comedy. Better than a lot of horror movies that have come out in the past years, and it was not afraid to get really weird. Not as scary as the first though. Liked it a lot better than The Conjuring which felt like an Insidious/Paranormal Activity hybrid that brought nothing new to the table.
That bedroom scene with the cans attached by strings
I had an odd theater experience too, mostly my fault, I was coming home from a weeding, and decided to catch this last minute...so I walk in like 15 minutes late, and it's packed, which is unusual whenever I go to the movies, but I should have known better, and the movies already started, I find a seat, and ask if it's taken and some little bytch my age or a little older with a boyfriend, has her purse on it, and says she's waiting for friends, one seat on either side, so I stand up in the back of the theater for like 20 minutes, like an idiot, contemplating just leaving. Finally, I walk back over and say I'll sit there until her friends come, and I'll get up, she's all upset, and I start moving her shyt over, 'I can move my own purse buddy', all bytchy...I just sat down, quietly, thinking ldid you two losers really lie to a grown man about having friends coming to a movie? I wanted to say I'll empty you're fukking purse on the floor, and you, or this idiot next to you won't do a fukking thing...
As far as the movie, once I settled in, it was ok, awkward transition into the new story, and didn't feel as organic as the first one, forced and stilted, Patrick Wilson's character was guilty of some laughable cliches in the first one, but managed to be believable enough, esp. to sell his turn at the end, but in this it was approaching self parody/tongue in cheek, with the music and his obviously sinister presence, appearing in doorways with half his fukking face covered in darkness...Wan, still excels in creating some genuinely creepy and unsettling images and scenes, but the movie never really works as a whole, segments and scenes create tension and some scares, but the next scene loses it, and so on. The original was one of the scarier movies I'd seen in years, this had some moments, but felt lacking, and never sustained an atmosphere, or really settled into creating an environment to frame the the rest of the story.