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
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17
Negative:
13
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Critic Reviews

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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
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