Friday, 28 November 2014

Movie Review: Horrible Bosses 2 - I think we can all agree that comedy sequels rarely work.



Okay, I wasn’t feeling like doing a review on this, but I decided to anyways, but I'll still try and keep it short. Basically I had some free time and decided to see Horrible Bosses 2 because I can’t see the movies I actually want to see until Sunday. So here we go.

Plot Summary: Having quit their jobs and deciding to start their own company, Nick (Jason Bateman) Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day) assume they have it made when the head of a company (I forget the characters name but he’s played by Christoph Waltz) offers to buy an order of 500,000 units but ends up screwing them over, they decide to kidnap his son (Chris Pine) and make him pay up.

Pros – I have never seen anything Chris Pine starred in, but mother of god is he funny in this, playing the perfect arrogant rich kid with daddy issues, he is probably the best thing about this movie. The main three seem like they are having fun as they manage to keep most of the energy from the first film (although it does have its overbearing moments.) The film also does have some pretty funny moments.

Cons – 90% of the film feels like the same joke of Nick having to explain something to Kurt and Dale, as the film kind of makes it feel like they’re trying to go for an arrested development type of feeling and it mostly misses. Also, Christoph Waltz is barely in this, Jamie Foxx feels like he’s only in this because they needed him to solve a plot point in the script, and Jennifer Aniston is basically useless except for fan service because she was so well liked in the last one. Kevin Spacey also shows up a couple of times, including one scene when you think about it really makes no sense and kind of also undoes the results of the first film a little bit (you’ll understand if you watch it) and also the ending works out the way it does based on an instance of insane dumb luck that’s never actually fully explained. The whole film basically tries to act smarter than its predecessor and ends up looking worse for it.

Final Score – 3/10
Chris Pine and the few decent gags keep it from being lower, but the film suffers from three big problems: It’s trying too hard and fails; it relies on cheap fan service, and most of the jokes fall flat. I’d say go watch the first one again, but I don’t think I’ve even done that since it came out.

I think Whiplash will be the next review, and Corner Gas the movie after that, but I might work something in between as well or tack it on with Whiplash I’ll see how I feel.

1 comment:

  1. I feel that whether or not you do like this movie may depend on what you thought of the first film, seeing how this is basically the same general movie.

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