Yes, I knew what I was getting into, but I'd shown the boy the original and felt obliged to take him to see the second installment. And what can you say? It's everything you'd expect.
I don't mean that in a good way.
Now because my expectations were low, very low, it would have been an easy thing to pleasantly surprise me. I mean, it's not like there isn't fodder for ideas here: there are the "lifeforms" (holodicketymorphosomethingorother...?) that spontaneously populate the world, but they're only a subplot to show how evil "Clue" (Jeff Bridges) can be. A shame, because there is potential there, as demonstrated by Conway's Game of Life. And while I like Jeff Bridges, he proved his evilness plenty well enough by consenting to come back and make this film.
And there's the idea of transcendence - Transhumanism, of a digital immortality, well, of loads of things...
None of which are touched upon even slightly here. Now it is what it is (not very good at all), so I can take it on those grounds, but - with the effects, with the countless unforseen turns technology has taken, and a decent writer - it could have been an awful lot more. For shame.