Can't agree with you about the animation, Genndy and his team do good work, and I realise how jaded that must seem as I write this with a Samurai Jack avatar. The animation was super springy, characters bounced around and warped into all sorts of dynamic poses.
Also, wasn't the point of the first film that daddy DIDN'T know best? His over protectiveness was wrecking his daughters life, he fixed things at the end sure but he wasn't right originally.
Don't get me wrong, the first film wasn't amazing, I thought it was okay and I'm not expecting anything great from this one, but I defiantly don't think it was it was awful.