Even knowing how much of this movie is Aaron Sorkin BS, it's still tremendously entertaining, basically just history as a series of snappy one-liners, infuriating injustices, and satisfying payoffs. This may well be my favorite Sacha Baron Cohen role to date.

Pretty generic story-wise, without much of the sheer surrealistic insanity that made the first film surprising. But the visual design is still marvelous. Worth watching just for the fibercraft aesthetic of the world, and the way the animators work it into so many surprising landscapes.

Sign me up as the apostate that just doesn't appreciate this one, that doesn't really understand why a long, rambling, sleepy movie about a disconnected, disaffected, insanely rich and privileged teenager moping around until he gets laid is so moving to people. There are better romances, better gay coming-of-age movies, better summer-fling stories, and movies where I don't get really really distracted by watching a dude gut a peach in his bed with his bare hands and then fuck it, making an immense mess for someone else to clean up. I will fight the world on this one.