There's simply something missing in it. The characters parrot the exact same phrases and things you've heard before, making it filler in every sense of the word. It's to the point I genuinely felt as though the entire story was AI generated (as in you fed the AI information about how dwarves hate elves and Lizardman likes cheese, and now every conversation of every character boils down to those three things) and any potentially new information is skipped (the only interesting memory the 2000 year old elf can muster to remember is following a pebble down the river). Blond girl's flashbacks are probably the only thing that was well-done in the movie, yet it feels so demeaning and sad to watch. We never find out anything about her, which felt like the POINT of the movie. As it turns out, this movie has no point. Every scene of her crying, every scene of her friends being brutally murdered, every scene of her second-guessing herself, every scene of her having an emotional breakdown just become obsolete. Those breakdowns, as justified and sad as they are, are simply annoying to watch because there's no pay-off, they exist solely to make Goblin Slayer look cool (and yes, I think Slayer's character is more than just an edgy self-insert created for the women in this universe to drool on).
What actually, genuinely remains is probably like the ~5 minutes of info dumps about Gods and goblins evolving which can be summarised in a single sentence and is revealed really out of tact, and the admittedly fun, chaotic last act. There's lots of "fun, chaotic" action sequences throughout the movie, but I didn't like any of them cause they neither made sense, nor were fun (and Goblin Slayer is usually at least one of those things). By didn't make sense, I mean both wondering why are they even doing the thing they're doing currently (other than "well, the show's called Goblin Slayer, so, we must throw in some goblins getting slain so that things don't get boring") and that the scenes themselves sometimes were so unrealistic they actually took me out of the story (which says a lot if it happens in a 1. fantasy show, and 2. fucking Goblin Slayer out of all things). The least spoiler-y one I can think of is that at the very end of the movie, Slayer fights against the Goblin Lord, 1v1. Except this time (unlike in S1 where getting him alone required cunning), the Lord literally has his entire army at the ready, but he CHOOSES (yes, the race whose only trait is being cowardly and raping) to fight this dude 1 on 1, despite his army being able to swarm Slayer's party. Now, is the fight cool? Yes. Does it take you out of the story? Yeah. It boils down to whether or not you care. There's also multiple scenes where either side-characters or goblins are dumbed down just for an action scene to happen, which was annoying.
So, it really depends on what you're looking for in this show. If you want fun, pointless action - it's probably your cup of tea. If you're like me and liked S1 for some other indescribable reason, this one isn't for you. But maybe it's worth watching just to see which one you are.
