Not the typical just got sucked in, arms crossed standing in front of the TV Dad-movie style rewatch, but that's what happened nonetheless (with more crying).

Like Part One, it astounds with visuals, VFX, and sound design. The world-building is Grade A, and they've managed to make the famously dense source material digestible without holding the audience's hand too much.
It has some forgivable issues with pacing (felt longer to me than last year's Oppenheimer and KOTFM, even though it is not) and performance (paraphrasing my buddy Wes - did they not want to try for a second take on some of those shouting scenes? Looking…