While it might be too harsh to say that Horrible Bosses 2 is, well, horrible, it certainly didn’t live up to the mindless hilarity of the first installment. In fact, a friend who came along commented that the outtakes played during the credits were the funniest part!
This time, the three friends, played by Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day, are self-employed, but end up getting ripped off by the investors of their invention. Their solution: a kidnapping/ransom scheme. Needless to say, it doesn’t exactly go as planned, and the three bumbling idiots end up in deep water pretty quickly.
A terrible script is perhaps mostly to blame for the flaws, because the film is chock-full of big-name stars. Besides the three main characters, this film also has Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx and Kevin Spacey returning to their over-the-top characters of the first movie. And it’s almost criminal to see the talents of the amazing Christoph Waltz, playing one of the bad guys, so wasted here.
Should You See It? No. —S.Z.
Viewed at Wehrenberg Ronnie’s 20 Cinema