(Average) Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish

Movie in one sentence:
A bunch of fairy tale creatures risk their lives to find a wishing star, even though each one of their desires are objectively stupid to waste such a power on.

Movie in more sentences:
After a lethal accident, the once confident Puss learns he's spent 8 of his 9 lives and becomes haunted by the personification of Death, seeking to kill him. When he learns of the existence of a wishing star, he sets out to find it and wish back the lives he's lost so he may resume his career as a charming, celebrated hero.

I feel so disconnected with the rest of the world. Movies and series people praise are extremely mediocre to me, and this time was no different. I felt the same way about the first Puss in Boots movie. Don't even remember what it was about.
I've heard so many Youtubers praise every inch of this movie, it's why I checked it out, but after watching, agreed with none of their points. This sequel had the plot of a TV-show episode, it was a bit embarrassing.

The choppy "Across the Spider-Verse" animation during the fight scenes was hideous and distracting in a movie franchise that never used this technique before. What exactly was the direction's reasoning for doing this, besides being cheap? Puss in Boots is not a comic book-inspired movie. People, stop celebrating 2 frame per second animation, it never looked good and this isn't anime. You get the same effect when trying to watch a video on an old laptop with low processing power, and I don't recall anyone ever saying to enjoy that experience.

The villains weren't particularly interesting, either. Not that I hated them, they just weren't characters I'd care to make fanart for. Jack Horner could've been fun if the cricket had more scenes and stuck around throughout the movie, but he doesn't.
Goldilocks would've been better if she wasn't such a commanding bitch to her bear accomplices, they are her family after all. Why are these bears putting up with someone who's literal food to them? And why are they a criminal gang in addition to that? Just make them a normal family who already learned of Goldilocks' desire to have human parents. What other reason do you need to help your loved, but lonely and adopted child? Even so, the movie does not explain why this young adult needs to reacquaint herself with random people the star will deem her new family. A bit too late for that, isn't it? Why not wish back her real parents instead? It's not said why she was an orphan; maybe they died, opposed to having abandoned her.

Unlike what fans claim, the subject of mortality wasn't discussed with any originality; and Death itself was just a generic grey wolf with spoooooooooooooooky red eyes in an overdone black hooded coat. He had a completely different art style from the only other wolf the Shrek series introduced to us; the Red Riding Hood version, and was designed to look more cartoonish and "cool", which I have zero respect for. Consistency I respect.
Couldn't they have given him a wolf's skull for a head, at the very least? Or make Death look like Puss himself, but skeletal, or demonically warped, just anything opposed to this bore? I'm tired of wolves, man, the animal kingdom has so much to offer, but everything is always friggen canines and felines.
Even funnier is that this guy has been discussed online so often, yet he hardly makes an appearance in the movie, nor says anything interesting. Why on Earth does he exist. I would've written him out of the movie.

Puss in Boots 2 was a let-down, but I'm more let down by the people who audibly liked it. Are people so used to dreck that a simple tale like this is considered peak cinema? I envy them, though, I don't enjoy being in the minority.