Horrible Bosses 2 (2014)

The first Horrible Bosses wasn't bad. I mean, obviously it was nothing groundbreaking, but there was a good cast playing some hilarious characters, with a decent amount of laugh-out-loud moments scattered throughout it.

Horrible Bosses 2 is everything that's wrong with comedy sequels. The producers wheel out the same cast and tell them to do the exact same thing again (but with a much worse script). Due to the success of the first film, they know this one will likely make a profit. For this reason, they don't bother putting in the effort to make this film as good as the first, because what's the point? Schmucks like us will go and see it either way. 

I notice that Kevin Spacey isn't on this poster. He made a wise decision distancing himself from this piece of crap movie.

There are virtually no funny moments in the whole movie, because the entire thing is just 1 hour 48 minutes of Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day talking over each other. 90% of the dialogue between the three main characters is completely incomprehensible. 

Fortunately for the sake of the story, a load of the secondary characters from the first film (angry boss, slutty boss, weird gangsta), as well as a couple of new ones, were also crowbarred into this movie to carry the plot on behalf of the main characters who were essentially passengers in their own movie. Unfortunately, my favourite character from the first film, the hilarious douchebag son played by Colin Farrell, was killed off in the last movie, so he couldn't even make an appearance in the sequel and redeem it a little bit. 

At the end of the day, a comedy movie is supposed to make you laugh. As long as you're laughing, who cares? Well that's just the thing. There was barely any of it that I found funny. Most of it is stuff that we've seen before. Remember that bit at the beginning where it looks like Charlie Day is wanking off Jason Sudeikis, because of the audience's perspective? Wasn't that a hilarious, original joke? It's not as if that gag has been done to death in a million other movies... 

Most of the "humour" was just the characters arguing indecipherably. It was kind of funny for the first few minutes, but it got stale very quickly. Similarly, I very rapidly got bored of Kevin Spacey, who was just there to be angry, and Jennifer Aniston, who was just there to say vulgar sexual things. I mean, a film which can make you begin to resent actors you've always liked has to be doing something very wrong.

To be honest, this film was so empty that I'm struggling to write much more about it. There's nothing to talk about. There was a good cast and a standard wacky plot for a comedy movie, but the film itself was just so void of anything worthwhile, that it made the whole thing pointless. It's not worth the time spent watching it.

Overall, I rate Horrible Bosses 2 2/10.

I laughed once or twice, but apart from that, this film was a lazy cash-grab that isn't worth watching.