How about I just call it "more coherent" then? It's basically a rewrite of the BE1 director's cut -- so no points for originality. Seriously, tho, what I think is just that talking about which is better would likely raise good questions on what makes a film good in the 1st place -- or at least about how true what I said concerning bad and worse might be.

I wonder if they had been forced to refine the script before starting the first movie how close it would have been to this and how that would have looked outside of Kutcher's shadow. Usually, such second guessing is pointless; it's against the nature of film. But if ever there was a franchise of which one could comfortably say that second guessing is the whole idea, it's this one. lol