The defence The Popcorn Loyalist
“It owes the canon nothing.”
The movie pursues immediacy and audience pleasure without begging institutions to certify its worth.
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Horrible Bosses 2
Comedy · 2014
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.
Movie details
Horrible Bosses 2
“New crime. Same tools.”
2014 Comedy 1h 48m
Critical arithmetic
The consensus, allegedly.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
IMDb
6.3 / 10
192.7K votes
Rotten Tomatoes
35 %
Tomatometer
Metacritic
40 / 100
Metascore
TMDB
6.2 / 10
Community rating
External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.
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.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over Horrible Bosses 2?
For the defence
The Popcorn Loyalist
“Big screen, big feelings, no apologies.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Big-Idea Head
“You watch with your brain, not your gut.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Names above the title
The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
Sean Anders
Written by
John Francis Daley · John Morris · Sean Anders · Jonathan Goldstein
Jason Bateman
Nick Hendricks
Jason Sudeikis
Kurt Buckman
Charlie Day
Dale Arbus
Jennifer Aniston
Julia Harris
Chris Pine
Rex Hanson
Christoph Waltz
Bert Hanson
Jamie Foxx
Motherfucker Jones
Court is in session
Put Horrible Bosses 2 on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Big-Idea Head
“Easy pleasure, short half-life.”
It moves efficiently through the moment but offers little reason to keep arguing once the credits end.