| 80 |
Washington Post
Hilarious.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
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.
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
Phoebe Flowers
One of the freshest, nastiest comedies to come around in quite some time.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
An extremely funny movie, and this is coming from someone who barely cracked a smile during ``Friday,'' the first installment of this franchise.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
Nothing miraculous, but it's time pretty well spent.
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| 70 |
Film.com
Will eventually be remembered as a disposable farce, but one that leaves a happy memory.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
The punch line isn't that funny.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
Starts high, gradually bogs down, then dies.
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| 50 |
Variety
A few good laughs but few surprises in Next Friday, an amiably unfocused sequel.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
Sporadically funny... occasionally very funny.
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| 42 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
After its midway mark, just lumbers until it fizzles out.
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| 40 |
Dallas Observer
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.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
Most of the principal female characters are either sexually voracious, sexually promiscuous, pregnant out of wedlock or angrily bent on revenge.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
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.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
Monica Eng
Almost comes as a breath of fresh air. Too bad it's so foul.
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| 38 |
USA Today
But most of the humor is about as fresh as the air left behind whenever Witherspoon uses a toilet.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
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?
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| 38 |
Mr. Showbiz
A chronic snore. My advice: Roll a fatty and re-rent the first one.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
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.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
Gary Dauphin
A calculated teen gross-out flick that owes more to "American Pie" than its own progenitor.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
A story disappointingly similar to the original.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
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.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
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?
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| 25 |
New York Post
The whole movie is so ineptly written and directed that its 90 minutes seem to take twice as long.
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| 20 |
TNT RoughCut
Sarah Raskin
One-beat humor that is worsened by poor writing and editing.
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