2 FTW! Everything was better including music. Still more poppier than I like but I Daniel Ingram is such an amazing songwriter that he makes it work. The best had to be the heavy metal part before our heroines made their comeback. If more of the music was like that, the soundtrack to this movie would be blasting from my car speakers. As such I will listen to it in private when nobody is around . Any good story needs a good antagonist and the villains were more evil than Sunset shimmer was in the first one. It's just a fact, the best villains are the ones there is no redemption for. However, I thought Sonata was pretty freakin' adorable with her blatant stupidity.