Horrible Bosses 2

Horrible Bosses 2: Electric Boogaloo is what this movie should have been called. There are some movies that seem like they will always be classics but when you watch them 10-15 years later, they simply don't stand the test of time; American History X is one such movie. I used to think this movie was borderline brilliant but after watching it recently, I could barely make it through the entire film. I understand what they were trying to accomplish with it but all it is, is melodrama and preachy monologues; and  the best thing that actually happened in the movie was watching Ed Norton do a reverse slam dunk on what was obviously a six foot rim to win a pick up game against a bunch of athletic black men. And here I thought Woody Harrelson's performance in White Men Can't Jump couldn't be beaten.

Well Horrible Bosses doesn't fit this temporary classic category at all; the only memorable thing from that movie was Jennifer Aniston's unbelievable hot body and her equally hot and dirty mouth. But for whatever reason Hollywood thought it would be a great idea to make a sequel to this forgettable comedy and basically forced me to see it by only releasing another useless sequel in Penguins of Madagascar. I should've gone to see the penguins.

In part 2, Nick, Kurt, and Dale are all back and they have decided to become their own bosses by inventing a game changer in the bathroom scene with the Shower Buddy; an all in one shower head that will save you tons of time in the morning. But it's obvious that they have no clue what their doing as they get screwed in their first big deal with a mega distributor which is headed by the evil Bert Hanson (Christoph Waltz). So naturally the only way they know how to get back at him is to commit a crime but instead of murder, they try their hand at kidnapping his douchebag son Rex (Chris Pine). But as you can imagine all sorts of "hilarious" things go wrong and they are left scrambling trying to make things right again.

As you can imagine this movie is chock full of recycled jokes from the first one and Charlie Day's high pitched squealing seems to reach frequencies that can only be matched by Matt Bellamy(Muse's lead singer) voice when singing "I'm gonna WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=109WY4Y0yyg

But you have to expect that going into the movie, what's sad is that 90% of the new jokes they implement all fall flat. There's even a tired reference to Fight Club at one point, maybe they watched History X before making this movie too. Poor Christoph Waltz almost seemed ashamed at times to be a part of this fiasco.

I will say that Jamie Foxx was hilarious in every scene he was in and Jennifer Aniston is still the only reason to see this movie. Years of smoking and the natural aging process is starting to take it's toll on her but having a great make-up artist can make all the difference in the world.

In the end, I did wind up laughing more than I thought I would, it's just that the jokes that bomb are really, really bad. I rate this movie as WEAK and suggest you watch it at home.