I watched this yesterday. Very similar feel to the original, minus the awful self narration and cheesy cgi etc, so that was good. But aside from that the story it was just as convoluted and tbh, didn't feel much different.
If anything the ridiculousness of the original might have actually made it special. This just felt boring.
I wasn't exactly a fan of first, I actually think it's one of the worse films ever made, but in doing so becomes kinda funny and worth watching, the ol so bad it's good troupe.
If you take away all the crap, then you strip its character and you just end up with a dull movie.