Horrible Bosses 2
Warner Bros. | Release Date: November 26, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
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Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
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6
Mixed:
17
Negative:
13
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekNov 25, 2014
The miraculous surprise is that Horrible Bosses 2 isn't terrible at all. It's looser, breezier, more confident than its predecessor. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 25, 2014
Horrible Bosses 2 is harsh and tasteless, not to mention broad and shameless, but that’s not a bad thing in this case. Softness and good taste, as well as restraint and carefulness, are the enemies of comedy, and “Horrible Bosses 2” is a very funny movie. Read full review
67
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanNov 26, 2014
Fear not. It’s as silly as the first, a shade faster and nastier (though also sloppier) and features a new psycho more dangerous than anyone in the original. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyNov 26, 2014
It's the small, tossed-off moments — Bateman's deadpan mugging, Day's frenzied cluelessness, and Sudeikis' smarmy one-liners — that land the best. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleWilliam GossNov 26, 2014
The humor ranges from situational gags to wordplay both clever and juvenile. Despite routine lapses into gay panic and the kind of dick-stroking shadowplay that was exhausted a decade ago by the Austin Powers franchise, there are strong laughs sprinkled throughout, culminating in an unexpectedly inspired climactic car chase. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTom RussoNov 25, 2014
A new misadventure whose negligibly refined formula somehow ends up being more consistently entertaining. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNov 25, 2014
So the big surprise of Horrible Bosses 2 is how far it gets on the hopped-up jabberjaw alliance of Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day. In the 2011 “Bosses,” they were swamped by the conceit: White-collar pals try to kill awful employers. Now, freed up to free-associate, they’re totally winning. Read full review
60
Total FilmKate StablesNov 24, 2014
Looser, more conventional, and highly dependent on the enjoyably rambling bro-banter of NickKurtDale Inc, Horrible Bosses 2 is a mostly-cosy caper that gives off rather less blackly comic energy than its predecessor. Read full review
60
EmpireDavid HughesNov 24, 2014
Your opinion of this unasked-for but likable comedy sequel depends entirely on whether your reaction to the statement “It’s better than the first one” is 1) “Dear God, it could hardly be worse” or 2) “Awesome!” Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerNov 25, 2014
The laughs don't linger, even within individual scenes. What remains, reinforced by a set of end-credit outtakes, is the sense that Sudeikis, Day, Bateman, and Pine had a really good time making a sort of okay movie. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandNov 26, 2014
Most of the humor in this film arises from the ludicrous squabbles among Bateman, Sudeikis, and Day, who can springboard from logic to lunacy in a single exchange. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoNov 26, 2014
Morris & Anders, who also directed, literally repeat many of the same set-ups and punchlines from the original “Bosses,” only more crassly this time and with more discussion of bodily fluids. And nothing is quite as cinematically desperate as someone telling you a joke you’ve already heard only louder. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriNov 26, 2014
It puts the same characters into a vaguely familiar situation, with diminishing, tepid returns. They should have just called it 2. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsNov 25, 2014
Further proof that likable actors have to take an occasional sick day. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyNov 25, 2014
Make no mistake, despite some well-earned laughs, "Horrible Bosses 2" is not what qualifies as a good movie or even a particularly good R-rated comedy. But there is more to laugh at in "2" than the first, so let's go with less horrible, shall we? Read full review
50
Portland OregonianJeff BakerNov 25, 2014
Maybe you can skip the movie and just watch the credits. Read full review
50
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreNov 25, 2014
Your enjoyment of Horrible Bosses 2 is almost wholly dependent on your tolerance for clusters of funny actors, babbling, riffing — and in the case of Charlie Day, screeching — all at once. Read full review
50
HitfixDrew McWeenyNov 13, 2014
There are laughs in the movie, but they feel like they are isolated gags, not sustained runs, and in order for this to work as character comedy, they'd have to be playing better defined characters and not just heightened versions of themselves. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweNov 12, 2014
Anders’ well-attuned comic sensibility makes for moments of hilarity in some of the more originally conceived scenes, but bogs down in predictability with reliance on too many stock situations that absorb the bulk of the running time. Read full review
40
CineVueJamie NeishNov 29, 2014
Horrible Bosses 2 is by no means an atrocity, but it's tired and unexceptional, which is perhaps worse. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzNov 25, 2014
A lackluster second effort that mines a lot of the same jokes. Only no joke is as funny the second time around, even when it's being delivered by really funny people. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonTrevor JohnstonNov 25, 2014
Another convoluted tale of criminal bumbling. Read full review
40
VarietyJustin ChangNov 12, 2014
This inane and incredibly tasteless sequel qualifies as an excuse to bring back those hard-working funnymen Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis for another round of amateur-criminal hijinks and semi-improvised vulgarity, jabbing away repeatedly at some elusive comic sweet spot where blatant nastiness and egregious stupidity collide — and very occasionally hitting the mark. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliNov 25, 2014
Painfully unfunny and unnecessarily long, this movie is the antithesis of its predecessor, the delightfully raunchy "Horrible Bosses." Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperNov 25, 2014
Every once in a while there’s an inspired montage, or a one-liner that made me laugh out loud. But how can you have the great Christoph Waltz playing a villain in a comedy, and you get almost nothing out of it? Read full review
37
Washington PostAnn HornadayNov 25, 2014
Even at its lamest and most entitled, this sequel will most likely please fans of the first installment, chiefly because Bateman, Sudeikis and Day are, admittedly, often very funny together. Read full review
30
The DissolveNathan RabinNov 25, 2014
Ribald yet frantically unfunny, it wears out its welcome within the first five minutes, and never comes close to gaining it back. It feels like an alternately flat and flailing television pilot for a bro-comedy no one in their right mind would ever pick up. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerNov 26, 2014
Dumb, dumber, dumbest. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallNov 25, 2014
The sequel is merely crude for crudeness' sake, lazy as they come. Read full review
25
The PlaylistDrew TaylorNov 25, 2014
The fact that the sequel is a messy, dull, instantly forgettable trifle somehow makes it the perfect follow-up to the original -- it's just as horrible. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithNov 25, 2014
The three friends do things that venture beyond entertainingly dumb and into exasperatingly unbelievable. Read full review
25
USA TodayClaudia PuigNov 25, 2014
This ill-conceived sequel to 2011's entertaining Horrible Bosses is base, moronic, insulting and vulgar. It's also cringingly unfunny. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineEric HendersonNov 24, 2014
If your answer to the question "When are rape jokes funny?" is anything aside from "never," the good news is that you may still find a lot to hoot over throughout the film. Read full review
20
The TelegraphTim RobeyNov 29, 2014
This is the problem with being held hostage in the worst studio comedy of the year: for cast and audience alike, there’s little to do but wait for it to stop. Read full review
20
TheWrapDan CallahanNov 12, 2014
A movie called Horrible Bosses, or even a movie called Horrible Bosses 2, should essentially write itself. Unfortunately, that's exactly what the creators of these two movies wanted their cast to do, and the result is puerile, ugly and painfully unfunny. Read full review
10
The New York TimesStephen HoldenNov 25, 2014
What Horrible Bosses 2 lacks in nasty repartee, it tries to make up for in poorly staged comedy chases and break-ins. It is the Hollywood equivalent of a rambunctious little boy pointing to the toilet and squealing, “Mommy, look what I made!” Read full review
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