Next Friday

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

Hilarious.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

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.

Miami Herald Phoebe Flowers

One of the freshest, nastiest comedies to come around in quite some time.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

An extremely funny movie, and this is coming from someone who barely cracked a smile during ``Friday,'' the first installment of this franchise.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

Nothing miraculous, but it's time pretty well spent.

Film.com Tom Keogh

Will eventually be remembered as a disposable farce, but one that leaves a happy memory.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

The punch line isn't that funny.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Starts high, gradually bogs down, then dies.

Variety Joe Leydon

A few good laughs but few surprises in Next Friday, an amiably unfocused sequel.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Sporadically funny... occasionally very funny.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak

After its midway mark, just lumbers until it fizzles out.

Dallas Observer Andy Klein

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.

The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder

Most of the principal female characters are either sexually voracious, sexually promiscuous, pregnant out of wedlock or angrily bent on revenge.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

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.

Chicago Tribune Monica Eng

Almost comes as a breath of fresh air. Too bad it's so foul.

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

But most of the humor is about as fresh as the air left behind whenever Witherspoon uses a toilet.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

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?

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

A chronic snore. My advice: Roll a fatty and re-rent the first one.

Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour

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.

Village Voice Gary Dauphin

A calculated teen gross-out flick that owes more to "American Pie" than its own progenitor.

Austin Chronicle Sarah Hepola

A story disappointingly similar to the original.

LA Weekly Ernest Hardy

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.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

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?

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

The whole movie is so ineptly written and directed that its 90 minutes seem to take twice as long.

TNT RoughCut Sarah Raskin

One-beat humor that is worsened by poor writing and editing.