Horrible Bosses 2
2014 · Directed by Sean Anders
Original language: English
- comedy
The story
Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.
What it’s like
Bright, flat, office-park daylight gives way to the sunny, saturated look of a mid-budget studio comedy, with wide two-shots and conventional coverage that lets the three leads trade lines in clean, uncluttered frames. The sound is pure brisk pop-comedy: upbeat needle-drop soundtrack cues, quick cuts, and a lot of overlapping bickering that keeps the energy high. Scenes move fast and loud, with set-piece escalations stacking one bad idea onto another, so it feels more like a sequence of pratfalls than a slow build. The vibe is breezy, giddy and rowdy, the kind of thing that suits a lazy weekend afternoon or a group watch where nobody wants to think too hard. Its intensity is moderate and mostly verbal: crude sexual talk, drug and alcohol gags, jokes around prison and kidnapping, and some brief slapstick scuffles, but no real gore and little genuine menace, with the threat played for laughs. It is for viewers who want raucous, profane, friendship-driven comedy with an easy, unpretentious rhythm.
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