Horrible Bosses 2
for strong crude sexual content and language throughout.
Reviewed by: Pamela Karpelenia
CONTRIBUTOR
| Moral Rating: | Extremely Offensive |
| Moviemaking Quality: |
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| Primary Audience: | Adults |
| Genre: | Comedy Sequel |
| Length: | 1 hr. 48 min. |
| Year of Release: | 2014 |
| USA Release: |
November 26, 2014 (wide—3,300+ theaters) DVD: February 24, 2015 |
| Featuring |
Jennifer Aniston … Julia Harris Chris Pine … Rex Christoph Waltz … Kevin Spacey … Dave Harken Jason Sudeikis … Kurt Buckman Jason Bateman … Nick Hendricks Charlie Day … Dale Arbus Kelly Stables … Rachel Keeley Hazell … Ms. Lang Suzy Nakamura … Kim Brianne Howey … Candy Jamie Foxx … Dean “Motherf____r” Jones Keegan-Michael Key … Mike See all » |
| Director | Sean Anders — “We’re the Millers,” “Sex Drive,” and “Hot Tub Time Machine,” “Daddy’s Home” |
| Producer |
BenderSpink New Line Cinema RatPac Entertainment |
| Distributor |
 New Line Cinema, division of Warner Bros. Pictures |
Prequel: “Horrible Bosses” (2011)
Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day team back up for this sequel. After the first film, the guys are determined to be their own bosses and start their business with a hot new product and are fresh off a media tour. The guys get a call from a major manufacturer, played by the oh-so-talented Christoph Waltz and his son, played by Chris Pine. The inventors promise to purchase the lots of units once the guys get their business up and running. The deal goes sour, and the investors steal the guys’ idea, and, of course, the guys layout a plan to get back at the guy who wronged them.
Let’s start with the acting, mediocre, overall, but appropriate for this genre. Jason Bateman’s style of acting is appealing and kept my attention. All the other lead actors held their own and took advantage of the consistency of the storyline. I’m a huge fan of Christoph Waltz and was surprised to see him in this type of role. He is definitely entertaining, especially with Chris Pine as his son. The plot is above average for its genre, smart and well put together.
However, there is an abundance of objectionable content. There are numerous vulgar words and profanities, overt sexual content, nudity and violence. There is next to no redeeming content in this film. I truly believe that if they removed the objectionable content it would have been a pretty nice picture.
The running theme is unfairness and exacting revenge. As we know from Scripture, revenge is not ours, it’s the Lord’s. We, as humans, don’t like feeling wronged, but we, as Christians, know God is in control, and we know one day soon we will all have to face Him for our deeds and misdeeds.
As for a recommendation, it’s a no go, despite the okay plot and relatively good acting. The film is saturated with too much objectionable content that cannot be overlooked.
Violence: Heavy / Profanity: Extreme—“Jesus Christ” (2), “Jesus,” “Jesus F****ng Chr*st,” “Oh my f****g G*d,” “For Chr*st’s sakes,” “For G*d’s sake,” “Oh G*d,” OMG (3), “G*d-damn” (1), f-words (100++), s-words (50+), and numerous lewd and sexual slang words, etc. / Sex/Nudity: Heavy to extreme
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The film would have stood well alone without all the offensive language and sexual content that I felt was placed in the movie to add to the “entertainment value,” but instead took away from it. The film is full of expletives and offensive material: taking the Lord’s name in vain, F-bombs, sexual innuendos, references to private body parts, a scene where Justin Bateman gets knocked up by a sex-crazed Jennifer Aniston, just to name a few concerns for the family oriented movie-goer.
My Ratings: Moral rating: Extremely Offensive / Moviemaking quality: 5