Were there REALLY any good reason for a sequel to 2011’s raunchy ensemble comedy HORRIBLE BOSSES?
OK, I keep forgetting the business end. After all the first one grossed $118 million domesticly and another $92 million worldwide. Making it a definite candidate for a follow up.
Translation: Built-in audience = hefty paycheck for Warner Brothers and all involved.
If only they’d have come up with a better script.
As for the lame intrigue of # 2, we find the hapless trio of Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis becoming their OWN bosses in a great money making scheme. They’ve invented a revolutionary, new shampoo dispensing shower head named “Shower Buddy.”
And when it comes to marketing, they think they’ve hit pay dirt by landing a heavy hitter wholesaler. However, they’ll not only need market the device but funding for the boys’ new manufacturing plant as well.
These two sleezebags are played by the father and son team of Christoph Waltz and Chris Pine who swindle our boys out of a fortune.
Time for Bateman, Day and Sudeikis to again enlist the assistance of Jamie Foxx to kinap Waltz’s party animal son Chris Pine in exchange for a hefty ransom.
Hilarity ensues.
Also along for the ride is their ex-boss Kevin Spacey and an oversexed and dirty talking Jennifer Aniston.
And if you were surprised by Jenn’s potty mouth dialogue in the original, wait ’til you get a load of what she spews out this time out.
“Come on boys, my pussy isn’t going to eat itself.”
Get the idea?
Or try this one on for size: “I collect cocks.”
I’m not a prude but thank you Jennifer for sharing—a bit too much.
So how do I rank HORRIBLE BOSSES 2?
About a step below DUMB AND DUMBER TO. Shades of a THREE STOOGES slapstick update with a score of C-.
(Reviewed at B&B’s Overland Park 16)
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Sounds like a real stinker but with everyone laughing all the way to the bank. Thanks but I’ll pass.