Vacation Friends 2

Name: Vacation Friends 2
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Released: August 25, 2023
Rating: 38
Cast: Alex Dayuha, Carlos Santos, Jamie Hector, John Cena, Julee Cerda

2023

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Hulu | Release Date (Streaming): August 25, 2023 | R

Starring: Alex Dayuha, Carlos Santos, Jamie Hector, John Cena, Julee Cerda, Julianne Arrieta, LilRel Howery, Meredith Hagner, Ronny Chieng, Steve Buscemi, Yvonne Orji

Summary: Picking up a few months after the end of “Vacation Friends,” this uproarious sequel finds newly married couple Marcus (Howery) and Emily (Orji) inviting their uninhibited besties Ron (Cena) and Kyla (Hagner), who are also newly married and have a baby, to join them for a vacation when Marcus lands an all-expenses-paid trip to a CaribbeanPicking up a few months after the end of “Vacation Friends,” this uproarious sequel finds newly married couple Marcus (Howery) and Emily (Orji) inviting their uninhibited besties Ron (Cena) and Kyla (Hagner), who are also newly married and have a baby, to join them for a vacation when Marcus lands an all-expenses-paid trip to a Caribbean resort. His reason for traveling there in the first place is to meet with the owners of the resort to bid on a construction contract for a hotel they own in Chicago. But when Kyla’s incarcerated father Reese (Buscemi), is released from San Quentin and shows up at the resort unannounced at the worst possible moment, things get out of control, upending Marcus’ best-laid plans and turning the vacation friends’ perfect trip into total chaos. [20th Century Studios]… Expand

Director: Clay Tarver

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Rating: R

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Screen Rant Nadir Samara

Aug 25, 2023

Vacation Friends 2 doubles down on the dirty jokes of the original and delivers. Read full review

Michael Nordine

Aug 25, 2023

If anything, delving into action/comedy territory distracts from what made the original kinda-sorta touching at a few key moments: the heart beneath the hijinks. It’s still beating here, but not as strongly as it did the first time. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Aug 25, 2023

The four lead performers display an undeniable chemistry that makes Vacation Friends 2 pleasantly engaging if not hilarious. But it’s the addition of Buscemi that provides the real comic spark, the veteran actor employing his well-honed persona of angry sarcasm to provide a much-needed edginess to the otherwise bland proceedings. Read full review

Calum Marsh

Aug 25, 2023

As the harried friends careen across the resort through a series of comical mishaps, the movie has the feel of a TV rerun. More compelling are the too-rare moments of plotless leisure. Read full review

Jesse Hassenger

Aug 25, 2023

Vacation Friends 2 adds a few fresh elements to its too-soon sequelizing, but they can’t change this comedy’s listless, laugh-light trajectory. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Aug 25, 2023

You might find yourself forcing a laugh during one weak sequence to pretend this is all supposed to be fun. Read full review

The Guardian Benjamin Lee

Aug 25, 2023

The bar was low after the first, a half-assed waste of actors who deserve better, but the sequel is somehow even worse, a maddeningly unfunny string of bad decisions, the worst of which was deciding to make it in the first place. Read full review

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MetacriticOnur

Aug 26, 2023

bad
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adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
not good in any manner or degree.

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JLuis_001

Aug 25, 2023

In what was evidently something completely thrown together without any sort of effort because of the more than unexpected success of the first movie, Vacation Friends 2 is worse if you can believe it as it squanders its talent by entangling them in numerous situations that it erroneouslyIn what was evidently something completely thrown together without any sort of effort because of the more than unexpected success of the first movie, Vacation Friends 2 is worse if you can believe it as it squanders its talent by entangling them in numerous situations that it erroneously deems humorous.

It's a crude thing to say, but while I wholeheartedly support the WGA in its efforts to restrict the involvement of artificial intelligence in screenwriting, you also have to know how to admit that AI could certainly write something better than this.

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Oliilea

Aug 26, 2023

How did this trash get a sequel? It's not even remotely funny. You might force some laughs out of boredom but I don't know who wrote this and thought any of this dialogue was funny is beyond me. Trrrrrraaassssshhhhh

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