its not as cohesive as ITSV (which IMO is a 10/10) but its one of the few sequels that takes the first concepts and EXPANDS on everything. We learn more about the multiverse, we learn more about Gwen, Peter B progresses in his life, Miles is thriving as his FNSM, and tonally the movie goes more kid friendly to a solidly PG tone (a lot of slice of life Spider People drama with parents in this one).
Only thing that stops it from being perfect are the fact thats its a part 1 and my major complaint is...the lack of masks. Some hoe ass executive mustve banged the table about Miles, Hobie and Gwen being more recognizeable so their mask needs to be off and I HATE IT.
I hate it enough when Live action actors constantly have their masks off, but i get why they do it. THese are fukkING CARTOONS. THe audience really doesnt need to know what their face looks like and good animation takes care of the emoting and humanizing with the mask on. I swear some exec was really pushing this as Spider Verse grown up and i feel mask off was apart of that direction.