The tricks in the first one were much better in my opinion and I honestly felt like there were more in the first one as well. In the second one, why did Woody Harrelson have to play a twin? The whole evil twin thing was not needed. Surely there could have been another actor playing a different relative. I didn't like seeing Woody talking with (basically) himself.
One thing that really bothered me and made me not like it as much was the fact that James Franco's character was in 2 places at once. Let me explain. So, near the end of the movie, when The Four Horsemen were "setting up" their finale, Jack Wilder was performing the Queen trick (his first location). Then it goes to the evil twin finding and walking with Merritt McKinney. Merritt then calls Dylan Rhodes to warn him and the others that Walter and his father are on to where their next location will be. You don't find out until they start describing how the trick was done that Jack Wilder was also at this brotherly encounter (location 2). Jack was the one who hypnotized the evil twin and told him to throw them out of the plane. After Merritt calls Dylan, then Jack, Lula, and Atlas abandon their tricks. So how was Jack able to perform a trick in one location and then hypnotize someone in another location? I know they were magicians, but even magicians can't really be in two locations at once.
One thing that really bothered me and made me not like it as much was the fact that James Franco's character was in 2 places at once. Let me explain. So, near the end of the movie, when The Four Horsemen were "setting up" their finale, Jack Wilder was performing the Queen trick (his first location). Then it goes to the evil twin finding and walking with Merritt McKinney. Merritt then calls Dylan Rhodes to warn him and the others that Walter and his father are on to where their next location will be. You don't find out until they start describing how the trick was done that Jack Wilder was also at this brotherly encounter (location 2). Jack was the one who hypnotized the evil twin and told him to throw them out of the plane. After Merritt calls Dylan, then Jack, Lula, and Atlas abandon their tricks. So how was Jack able to perform a trick in one location and then hypnotize someone in another location? I know they were magicians, but even magicians can't really be in two locations at once.