Horrible Bosses 2 (DVD REVIEW)
Horrible Bosses 2
DVD Review by Kam Williams
Raunchy Sequel Featuring Bateman, Sudeikis and Day Released on DVD
Timing is everything, when it comes to
comedy, and this sequel suffers from an acute case of terrible timing. First of
all, with the Bill Cosby rape allegations figuring so prominently in the news
nowadays, the last thing anybody wants to laugh at is a premise predicated upon
secretly slipping a knockout pill into the drink of an unsuspecting victim.
Equally distasteful is the running joke
revolving around a female trying to turn a homosexual man straight by seducing
him, suggesting that all you need to alter a gay guy’s sexual preference is an
attractive seductress in a skimpy outfit. The picture’s political-incorrectness
even extends to ethnic jokes, such as a cringe-inducing scene where a man mocks
his Asian housekeeper’s thick accent.
Throw
in unfunny skits about rape, pedophilia and the Ku Klux Klan, and you have a
raunchy romp that repeatedly resorts to terribly tasteless fare simply for the
sake of a cheap punch line.
Directed by Sean Anders (We’re the
Millers), Horrible Bosses 2 features Jason
Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day reprising their lead roles as BFFs
Nick, Kurt and Dale, respectively. Also returning are Jennifer Aniston as
nymphomaniac Dr. Julia Harris, Jamie Foxx as feloniously-inclined
Mother-[expletive] Jones, Kevin Spacey as conniving Dave Harken, and Lindsay
Sloane as Dale’s wife, Stacy, while additions to the cast include Christoph
Waltz, Chris Pine, Keegan-Michael Key and Jonathan Banks.
This go-round, the intrepid
protagonists morph from disgruntled employees into hapless entrepreneurs with
no clue about bringing their invention, the Shower Buddy, to market.
Consequently, they soon find themselves ruined financially by a sleazy investor
Bert Hanson (Waltz), who rationalizes cheating them with, “I make new enemies
every day. It’s called business.”
So, the three hatch a cockamamie plan
to recoup their losses by kidnapping the creep’s son (Pine) for ransom. What
they didn’t bank on, however, was the possibility that Bert couldn’t care less
about freeing his ne’er-do-well offspring (a motif reminiscent of Ruthless
People (1986), where Danny DeVito ignored a demand for cash being made by his
wife Bette Midler’s abductors).
Horrible Bosses 2 does admittedly have
its moments, like a quite captivating car chase during which our heroes drag an
uprooted chain link fence onto the freeway while on the run from the
authorities. It’s just too bad that most of the movie is devoted to such a
misanthropic and misogynistic brand of humor.
Fair (1 star)
Rated
R for pervasive profanity and crude sexuality
Running
time: 108 minutes
Distributor:
Warner Home Entertainment Group
Blu-ray/DVD
Combo Pack Extras: Extended cut; Let the sexual Healing Begin; Who Invented the
Shower Buddy; Nick Kurt Dale INC: Employee Testimonials; It’s the Shower Buddy:
Infomercial; High speed Crash Course; Off the Cuff: One Liners You Didn’t See;
and Endless Laughter Guaranteed!
To
see a trailer for Horrible Bosses 2, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utriEZFno0E
To
order a copy of Horrible Bosses 2 on Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, visit:
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