It has an interesting look to it, to be sure. Definitely well photographed. Aside from the cinematography, there's not much here that wasn't underwhelming in the first one. However, the melodrama is cranked up a few notches, or maybe it just seems that way because this one's a talkie. Anyway, if you absolutely must watch this, look for the Japanese George Bush Jr. @ 1:06:27, he'll be the one wearing the ladies sun hat. It always throws me for a loop in these Japanese flicks when half the cast are dressed like ninjas and the other half are dressed like Woody Guthrie during the dust bowl era, but it doesn't make any of it any more interesting. It does however, make a good drinking game. One other thing I noticed was that the kid in this version dropped the characters jock itch motivation. If you watch it with somebody else, you can wake them up at the end and tell them how great it was. Long, slow, and boring.