Horrible Bosses 2: Only a patch on a patchy original

HORRIBLE BOSSES 2
Staring: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Chris Pine, Kevin Spacey
Rated: 5/10
Serenading stupidity seldom endears you enough to indulge entirely in fools. Horrible Bosses 2 is not just fooliash but quite uneventfully lazy. Add all these three traits to its three masterminds — Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis as bumbling entrepreneurs Nick, Dale and Kurt — and you have quite a test of endurance at hand.
I don’t know about others but I failed this test horribly, as horribly as the trio on the screen in front of me made a mess of their shampoo showers, getting economically bludgeoned by a seasoned trick master tycoon and his son.
The sequel to the 2011 Horrible Bosses original is nowhere near the predecessor though one couldn’t really glow with tributes to the first one either. But, at least it did not laze around without having too much fun, a snag that runs through the latest edition.
For starters, the trio talks too much nonsense and a wee bit too fast to catch the humour in their statement. The situations which usually come up fast to save the day in such verbose conditions also do not rise to the occasion much too often to keep the interest nodes pressed. Yes, there are moments when you smile at the endless bumbling, but they are far too sparse to ably punctuate the film with able comic moments.
Duped by a tycoon into being forced to give up their invention to mass production in China, they decide to kidnap the tycoon’s son who, in the end, turns out to be the most avid votary of his own abduction. The rigmarole unfolds and folds up pretty staidly despite the OTT sexual inclinations of Jennifer Aniston who has quite a screwed up affliction to be precise.
But nothing really adds up completely to translate to unadulterated humour so the sequel can be kept away for a leaner lonelier week, no slight though to Kevin Spacey or Jamie Foxx who are the two meteors in the film who burn out quite fast.

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 30 November, 2014

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