Murder Mystery 2
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): March 31, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
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5
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17
Negative:
7
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Film ThreatMichael Talbot-HaynesApr 10, 2023
This film is a pleasure indeed. The concoction of Agatha Christie elegance with Sandler’s teetering on the edge of taste humor is high-impact relaxation, like a warm bath for your frontal lobes. Read full review
70
Paste MagazineDom SinacolaApr 3, 2023
This time around, Murder Mystery 2 isn’t much of an actual murder mystery at all, less interested in the deductive skills of the Spitzes than in their indefatigable charm. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 31, 2023
It’s a time-filler, not a time-waster. It’s a film of simple pleasures — but they are pleasures. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanMar 31, 2023
Sandler and Aniston mesh; they made you believe in Nick and Audrey’s cantankerous marriage, and in the love percolating just beneath the fighting. If what Nora Ephron devised was a clever Xerox of the rom-com, “Murder Mystery 2” is a Xerox of the Xerox, powered by a whodunit plot that’s a cheesy light parody of itself played just straight enough to work. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoMar 31, 2023
Murder Mystery 2 has no loftier goals than disposable entertainment for 90 minutes, and it gets the job done. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayMar 31, 2023
The primary assets here though are Aniston and Sandler, who are totally present in every scene, playing off each other like old comedy pros and coming up with little bits of improvisatory business that make Nick and Audrey feel like a real and loving married couple. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeMar 31, 2023
It’s made just-about-watchable by Sandler and Aniston again, whose combined movie star charm proves magnetic enough to carry us through the flatter moments, both nailing some effectively chaotic physical comedy and maintaining a warm, relaxed chemistry. Read full review
60
The New York TimesBrandon YuMar 31, 2023
As they have in past team-ups, Sandler and Aniston maintain a charming midcareer looseness, and have a palpable affability as a duo — one can sense the fun they had making such silliness, even if the result isn’t gold. Read full review
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyMar 31, 2023
No one involved in Murder Mystery 2 seems to have worked with any real sense of direction, since the film is more than happy to let Sandler and Aniston take the steering wheel. There’s an easy chemistry to the pair. Read full review
60
SlashfilmJosh SpiegelMar 31, 2023
The saving grace of Murder Mystery 2 is that Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler have a renewed sense of charm, bouncing agreeably off each other as a married couple struggling to revive the unique magic they found in their first adventure. Read full review
59
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMar 31, 2023
Ultimately Murder Mystery 2 is the most business-as-usual kind of Sandler shtick, its only real surprise being how the production manages to pull off one solitary, very lonely surprise toward its end (it involves a quick appearance from Jillian Bell, bless her heart). Read full review
50
ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerMar 31, 2023
The action’s not flashy but competent, the set pieces are a bit easy to predict but deliver some reliable gags, and there are even a few meta moments that generate a chuckle or two. Read full review
50
Rolling StoneChris VognarMar 31, 2023
These are movies for those who find the Knives Out franchise too sophisticated and droll, red meat for the Sandler faithful. It’s a movie of small ambitions tailor-made for the small screen. It is exactly what you think it is. Read full review
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Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMar 31, 2023
It’s bigger, louder and dumber than the original—filled with cartoon violence, only occasionally funny dialogue and a group of suspects/victims not nearly as intriguing as the bunch from the first film. Read full review
50
The Associated PressJake CoyleMar 31, 2023
Like its predecessor, Murder Mystery 2 is built on old-fashioned star power and the interplay between Sandler and Aniston. They’re good company to be in, and sometimes that’s enough. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubLuke Y. ThompsonMar 31, 2023
It’s a set-up too contrived to feel real, yet not quite over-the-top enough to be hilarious. Read full review
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IndieWireSamantha BergesonMar 31, 2023
Murder Mystery 2 is the perfect background noise that Netflix has built an empire out of. Read full review
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ColliderChase HutchinsonMar 31, 2023
When it then shifts into being about the case itself with the characters trying to get to the bottom of it all, the humor feels like it is mostly coasting off of the chemistry of Sandler and Aniston. This can hold things together for a while as both bounce off each other effectively, but the film soon is revealed to just be a recycling of jokes the first film already did better. Read full review
40
Screen RantFerdosa AbdiApr 5, 2023
If one is wanting something substantive, with big laughs and surprising twists, Murder Mystery 2 should be avoided at all costs. Read full review
40
TimeStephanie ZacharekMar 31, 2023
As a kooky fantasy, it’s all fine, if just fine is what you’re after. But at what point does just fine become soul killing, or at least just soul numbing? Read full review
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EmpireJohn NugentMar 31, 2023
Standard-issue late-stage Netflix-era Sandler stuff: not exactly good, but goofy and charming in its own boneheaded, stick-it-on-if-there’s-nothing-else-on kind of way. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMar 31, 2023
The only real amusement comes from the casual asides delivered by Sandler and Aniston, the latter also providing perfectly calibrated slow-burn reactions that too often become overshadowed by the overproduced mayhem surrounding them. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreMar 31, 2023
Sure, it’s mercifully free of the Sandler hangers-on that were a staple of his succession of increasingly awful Hollywood comedies. But one almost wishes somebody with at least a little experience landing a laugh was featured in the supporting cast. Read full review
35
ABC NewsPeter TraversMar 31, 2023
Ever since Knives Out snapped the whodunit back to wicked life, it’s harder to accept a lazy, dim-witted mystery that wastes the starshine of Sandler and Aniston on 89 minutes of sequel piffle. One of those new AI bots could have coughed up a script with more personality. Read full review
33
The PlaylistMarya E. GatesMar 31, 2023
Like its lazy title, Murder Mystery 2 settles for the lowest version of itself. Read full review
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CNNBrian LowryMar 31, 2023
The near-four-year gap between movies does help in one respect, allowing people to largely forget what left them unimpressed about the original. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiApr 3, 2023
Netflix has padded its catalog of cinematic background noise some more with Murder Mystery 2, the instantly forgettable sequel to its rancid whodunit comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler as married crime solvers. Read full review
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The Daily BeastNick SchagerMar 31, 2023
Dismally lazy nonsense whose only redeeming element is that its credits roll a good 10 minutes before the conclusion of its stated runtime. Read full review
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The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeApr 2, 2023
This crime caper has a certain frenzied energy, but it’s sloppily plotted, crass and so dumb, you wouldn’t trust it to use cutlery unsupervised. Read full review
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