"Horrible Bosses 2": How horrible is it?

"Horrible Bosses 2": How horrible is it?

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The "horrible bosses" are back with a sequel, but it does the film live up to the 2011 original?

The new movie, out Wednesday, stars Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day, Jennifer Aniston, Chris Pine, Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx and Kevin Spacey. In the sequel, Dale, Kurt and Chris decide to start their own company but it doesn't go as planned because of a slick investor and a kidnapping scheme.

At last check "Horrible Bosses 2" had just a 30 percent rating on movie review aggregator site, Rotten Tomatoes, with some critics saying the jokes simply fall flat. Others are calling the movie "inappropriate," "racist" and "politically incorrect."

Take a closer look at what critics say:

Bilge Ebiri of New York magazine writes, "It's not really about bosses or office politics. Its only allegiance seems to be to the law of the sequel: It puts the same characters into a vaguely familiar situation, with diminishing, tepid returns. They should have just called it 2."

Claudia Puig of USA Today says: "Bateman's comic timing and slow burn have slackened into blandly dull reactions, while his partners in crime seem to have grown markedly less intelligent...This sequel is misogynistic and occasionally racist. Edgy, inappropriate humor has its appeal, but 'Horrible Bosses 2' is merely offensive, without the barest minimum of wit."

The New York Times' Stephen Holden calls it "one of the sloppiest and most unnecessary Hollywood sequels ever made," adding, "But it is infinitely dumber and not half as funny. ... The story doesn't even try to make sense. You often have the queasy feeling that the screenplay was improvised on the spot."

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"Horrible Bosses 2": How horrible is it?