Bad Boys II

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Bay's movie is also a confident mega-production that feels it doesn't need to lean on its visual frills if it has Smith and Lawrence -- it's a natural-born buddy flick.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Ellen A. Kim

Watching a Bruckheimer with natural comics like Smith and Lawrence makes it all go down easily. If you like this type of movie, that is.

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

The bigger-than-big, rambunctious spectacle is way too much of a questionably good thing.

Film Threat G. Allen Johnson

It may be the most winning, smile-inducing Hollywood action flick of the summer.

The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden

However masterful, the first-rate stunt work, effects, action cinematography and cutting (by no less than three editors) lose impact through sheer repetition.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Bad Boys II proves that it's possible to pack a movie with so much popcorn that it leaves the audience overdosed.

Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan

Though the picture has a generic quality, it also has an ingenious amount of anything-goes that's amusing and frequently exciting. You'll laugh out loud, you'll hide your eyes -- but you'll roll them. too. Nevertheless, it's a fun, if blood- and sun-soaked, ride.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

The kind of movie that gives sequels a bad name, even though, strangely enough, it's better than the 1995 hit that spawned it.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Beyond turbocharged. It whooshes along at warp speed. And still, despite some awesomely choreographed stunts and the two stars' pedal-to-the-metal appeal, the movie seems endless.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

In general, Bad Boys II is Bay unleashed. This is a good thing when it comes to action sequences--fans of excessive spectacle will definitely dig the car chases that involve flying cadavers. It's a bit less of a good thing between said moments of spectacle.

Film Threat Michael Dequina

But damn it if the film doesn't work as what it's supposed to be: a big, brainless blast o' boom at the box office.

Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis

With a body built for action and a smile made for comedy, Smith eases through his scenes -- cool but never scary, a touch hip-hop and thoroughly audience-friendly. And unlike Lawrence, he can act. Smith's ability to put over a scene, combined with his matinee charm, goes a long way to making the film's violence palatable.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Just too much of a mediocre thing. It didn't have to be that way.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

Might be considered three action sequences and four comedy routines in search of a story.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

The best moments come when Mr. Smith and Mr. Lawrence are permitted to pause from their action-hero duties and run their funny, unpredictable mouths.

Wall Street Journal Collin Levey

Like our two loose cannons with badges, the movie misses its target at least as often as it hits it.

Village Voice Jon Caramanica

Martin Lawrence's Marcus is the Costello to Smith's Abbott.

New York Magazine Peter Rainer

Resembles a full-length promo for itself. The action, virtually nonstop, is a series of can-you-top-this? set pieces.

Variety Todd McCarthy

As overblown as it is overlong, Bad Boys II is an enervating case of more is less.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Just like "Bad Boys," only louder, longer and the stars get paid more.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

The movie’s length forces our suspension of disbelief for at least an hour more than is comfortable and pushes mindlessness to a dangerous longevity.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

If you think you're tough enough, go ahead and sit through the endurance test that is Bad Boys 2, a brutal, 2 1/2-hour display of production overkill.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Smith and Lawrence enjoyed some amusing chemistry in the '95 original, but their molecules sure aren't jibing here. It's a full hour into this behemoth before there's anything resembling a belly laugh.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

The apotheosis of adolescent junk. Every sequence spews or splats carnage-filled effects. It's over-the-top, but not pleasurably so -- it's calculatedly over-the-top. The only way to get off on it is to revel in its prodigal waste of materiel.

USA Today Mike Clark

Appallingly mean-spirited.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Bad Boys II is the rare case in which escapism involves leaving the theater.

Salon.com Charles Taylor

Another Jerry Bruckheimer-Michael Bay demonstration of spectacle -- noise, stunts, the aforementioned incoherent editing -- taking precedence over story and character... by far the most brutal American picture released this summer.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

The vilest film of the season.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

It's basically the longest (a butt-numbing 21/2 hours), the most expensive (a reportedly obscene $150 million), most vulgar and by far the stupidest episode of "Miami Vice" ever.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The movie is so choppy in its nervous editing that a lot of the time we're simply watching senseless kinetic action.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

There's at least one ending too many, Union regularly vanishes for long stretches of the movie, and director Michael Bay's unmitigated pandering to viewers who whoop with glee whenever someone gets it between the eyes is genuinely distasteful.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

The only thing as bad as bad comedy is bad action. Bad Boys II has plenty of both.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

This putrid action flick crawls along for two and a half hours before expiring in a septic field of bad one-liners, halfhearted catchphrases, obliterated cars, vicious slow-motion bullet penetration, graphic corpse mutilations played for laughs, and shamefully hollow bonding scenes between its two dyspeptic megastars.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Bad Boys II has everything. Everything loud, dumb, violent, sexist, racist, misogynistic and homophobic that producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay can think of puking up onscreen.