The story is not interesting, and adding new character. it like they try to push the 4 main one down with this Uma character. The dance is not as sharp as the old one. The last scene where a dragon fight with an octopus, really? In many way, everyone know dragon would kill that octopus for lunch not like it has a very hard time fighting it. come on Disney, you guys really going down hill.

I hoped this movie would be up tot the (almost perfect (in act 2 and 3)) standards of the last movie, but they made it worse. The story felt incomplete, and there even were a few plot holes (obv. talking about the love spell on ben). There were at least a few songs I liked in the last one, but these felt just empty. The best scenes were the scenes with dove cameron solo (again), but the acting felt fine this time. They dropped a few lines that got my hopes up (about their parents, about the dog maybe losing his ability to speak) but they didn't work those parts out. This movie could have been so much more but most of the characters felt like they were dumbed down, so any interesting elements of their personality were gone and most of them were turned into one sided characters.

This missed soul: the story was empty, the songs didn't catch on and even the villain was not even good. I loved the first one, let's hope the third is as good as the people say.

That said, there were a few good parts: the acting was fine, the sets were good (but the CGI sets were bad), the casting was good. I think this movie could have been way better if they had a higher budget and more time, mainly to make some changes in the script: the ending came out of nowhere.

I give this one 5 stars, and to compare it to the first: I gave that one an 8.