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2018
video review : Horrible Bosses 2
This movie isn’t horrible. It’s as okay as the first one. The title makes less sense now as it refers not to the people the main characters work for but the guys themselves. Nick, Kurt and Dale have become potential entrepreneurs by quitting their jobs and inventing a bath product called The Shower Buddy.
The opening scene has them on the set of a morning TV show to promote it. What happens from there takes the plot into an assortment of wacky twists and turns, all for the sake of comedy. Is it funny? Sometimes. But not nearly as often as it tries to be. Is it stupid? Usually. But so was the original.
my rating : 3 of 5
2014
video review : Horrible Bosses
This is a movie a lot of working people can relate to. The main characters, men with white-collar jobs, hate their bosses for good reason. Even Dale, a dental assistant who’s sexually harassed by his hot chick boss, is justified because he wants to remain monogamous to his fiancée. Those constant advances are supposed to be funny, sometimes they are, but the sexist double standard they take advantage of isn’t lost on me.
As far as malice goes, the dentist is by far the least horrible of the three bosses. She is at least attracted to Dale in a positive way. His two best friends, Nick and Kurt, have to put-up with bosses who seem to hate them right back. Sitting in a bar one day, the three goofballs come-up with the idea to kill their bosses. Once that plot point is set, you’re hooked in, waiting to see how everything is going to turn-out in the end.
Too bad the story doesn’t go for real suspense. It’s built upon a simple yet potentially brilliant concept that could’ve worked wonders in a serious movie. As a comedy, one that’s consistently almost funny but never really funny, everything from how horrible the bosses are to how the workers go about planning to kill them is caricatured to unrealistic proportions. The ending you wait an hour and a half for is especially ridiculous.
my rating : 3 of 5
2011