Visually, it was amazing.
Story wise, I left the theater feeling confused like Old Man Jenkins in that one Spongebob episode where they are working 24 hours and making thousands of Krabby Patties.
To further elaborate, I did not read the book before hand or even watch the original '84 movie as I did not know they even existed. Watching the movie, I felt they introduced way too many story characters, groups and places while not elaborating on any of them enough, leaving me confused on some parts of the movie. It didn't help that I feel this way and the movie is 2 and 1/2 hours. I have many questions, and maybe I'm just an idiot because to be fair, I usually am an idiot, but I was left confused and if I do decide to watch the next part (I do understand that this is only part of an overall bigger story), I hope they answer the questions that I have.