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41 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 25 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 25
  3. Negative: 12 out of 25
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  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    80
    Hilarious.
  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Phoebe Flowers
    75
    One of the freshest, nastiest comedies to come around in quite some time.
  3. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Carrie Rickey
    75
    A slaphappy, slapdash type of affair familiar to fans of Cheech & Chong and Pauly Shore. It's your basic object lesson in why marijuana is called dope.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    75
    An extremely funny movie, and this is coming from someone who barely cracked a smile during ``Friday,'' the first installment of this franchise.
  5. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    70
    Will eventually be remembered as a disposable farce, but one that leaves a happy memory.
  6. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    70
    Nothing miraculous, but it's time pretty well spent.
  7. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    63
    The punch line isn't that funny.
  8. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    58
    Starts high, gradually bogs down, then dies.
  9. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    Sporadically funny... occasionally very funny.
  10. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    50
    A few good laughs but few surprises in Next Friday, an amiably unfocused sequel.
  11. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    42
    After its midway mark, just lumbers until it fizzles out.
  12. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Andy Klein
    40
    All the new plot stuff is way old hat, as though straight from a textbook chapter called "Conflict Drives Your Narrative!" And at times the motivations are either unclear or senseless.
  13. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Van Gelder
    40
    Most of the principal female characters are either sexually voracious, sexually promiscuous, pregnant out of wedlock or angrily bent on revenge.
  14. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    38
    A chronic snore. My advice: Roll a fatty and re-rent the first one.
  15. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Monica Eng
    38
    Almost comes as a breath of fresh air. Too bad it's so foul.
  16. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Susan Wloszczyna
    38
    But most of the humor is about as fresh as the air left behind whenever Witherspoon uses a toilet.
  17. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    38
    The action is mostly witless and predictable. One measure of its desperation and lack of respect for its audience is the frequency with which it labors to wring humor from flatulence and excrement gags.
  18. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    38
    It took four years to come up with this? Someone needed that long to assemble this patchy, recycled collection of gags about stinky butts, superfreaks, finger-wide blunts and racial cliches?
  19. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Sarah Hepola
    30
    A story disappointingly similar to the original.
  20. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    30
    After enduring 30 minutes of awful slapstick, shit jokes, gags revolving around used condoms, cholo caricatures, and women who are all psychos, sluts or Latina fuck-dolls, I walked.
  21. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Gary Dauphin
    30
    A calculated teen gross-out flick that owes more to "American Pie" than its own progenitor.
  22. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gene Seymour
    30
    There is plenty of nasty patter and aimless jokes about hard-core sex, soft-core drugs, dog feces and flatulence to keep you occupied while you wait, in vain, for any reason to laugh out loud.
  23. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    25
    The whole movie is so ineptly written and directed that its 90 minutes seem to take twice as long.
  24. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    25
    If John Witherspoon is among the funniest men in America, as many of his fellow comics say, why is he so painful to watch here?
  25. TNT RoughCut
    Reviewed by: Sarah Raskin
    20
    One-beat humor that is worsened by poor writing and editing.
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