I thought the content regarding stocks was better and much more in depth in the first movie. This one is definitely more about the plot and the relationships btw the main characters. Shia LaBoeuf is such a good actor and it really showed in this movie.

I actually enjoyed the movie. Apart from all the cheese described in the previos review, I thought the director used some clever tricks and metaphores - i.e. bubbles flying away and some of them popping, the skyline aka graphs, the devil eating itself painting. I thought the movie, and especially the speech that Michael Douglas's gave on greed, made sense in light of the recent financial crisis. Good timing for this movie - if there wasn't a crisis - then all the cheese would have been much more evident and nauseating