MOVIE REVIEW - Horrible Bosses 2

Now here's a sequel that didn't need to happen.  But open wide, they are going to cram this down your throat sideways...with no water.

HB2, is the second in this series, and clearly there will be another one.  Our same cast is back, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis as our bumbling wannabe criminals, who in the first tried to kill their bosses.  Now, they are trying to be their own boss by starting a company with an invention called The Shower Buddy.  But as this moves along, they run into some of the same foes from the first movie, Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, and Kevin Spacey, all reprising their characters.

But we've tossed in a few new characters to the mix, Chris Pine, and Christoph Waltz.  They are the new foes, and now the kidnapping, or maybe even killing plot revolves around them.  This has a great cast of wonderful supporting actors and on the surface, this should be great.  But that's why you play the game.  This simply isn't great at all.  Oh sure, there's a laugh or two, but overall this is about as fun as brushing your teeth with a toilet brush.

The really funny thing here is the movie making itself.  The producers of this ill-advised project have no idea that the supporting cast is way funnier and supremely more talented on every level than the three "main stars".  And they fail to recognize it.  And, it's not even close.  Watlz, Pine, Spacey, Aniston, and Foxx, steal the show during the small time they are in this.  But, we have to wade through the sewage pool performances that Bateman, Day, and Sudeikis supply us.

Those three give us an endless, and mindless amount of ad-lib drivel that isn't funny, and is insanely similar to the original.  It's not comical, original, or anything resembling entertaining.  It's simply arduous to listen to non-funny, self indulgent, ego gone wild babble that lowers your intelligence level simply by hearing it. They sell out to the lowest common denominator the entire time.  The "dialogue"  is incredibly F-word laden, with countless, and endless 7th grade locker room references.  you can almost hear the snapping towels.

Foxx is very funny again as the crime advisor, MF Jones. Aniston is funny as the sex-pot dentist. Although much of her dialogue is simply funny because "Rachel" is saying it, but most of it is amazingly vile.  And Spacey, in his two short scenes, is rip roaringly funny.   He made everyone laugh out loud.  Pine is funny, and Watlz makes any picture better, as it is fun to see him do comedy.

But overall, this is just not a good idea.  As in any comedy, some of this is going to work, and some not. The trouble here is, there is not one NEW wrinkle that matters.  It's rehashing,  reliving, and redistributing the same movie as the first. Only we've seen all this three years ago, and a joke is not as funny the second time around.  And, can Bateman ever play a character that is new?  All his movies are starting to go all Ben Stiller, and simply meld together into oblivion.   Day and Sudeikis at least don't have the lengthy resume Bateman does, but their act is getting cold and old fast too.

Horrible Bosses 2.  Rent it in 90 days.  If you must. Certainly not worth your hard earned money.