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.
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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