It totally lived up to the hype. A combination Star Wars meets Dances with Wolves, this movie delivers in both the visual effects and a decent story line about coming to understand people. For the more sensitive kids the first animal fight scene is pretty scary, but the rest of the movie is more exciting than scary. By the way the 3D is well done and worth the slight bump in price.
Special effects are as good if not better than the first. Action scenes are longer and more cyber filled. New bots and cons keep popping up to serve as extras on screen. Multiple quick catches on the humor, sarcasm, and crude material. Mom and dad are the hillarious caricatures they were in the first. While I think they could have put 5-10 minutes more body into The Fallen story for those yearning for a plot, it is definitely worth seeing on the big screen.