Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) poster
2014 · comedy

Horrible Bosses 2

Directed by Sean Anders1h 48m2014
ElsewhereIMDb6.3193kRT35%Metacritic40
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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.

Our read · Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want crude guy-comedy scheming where idiots stumble into another kidnapping caper.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 5attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexcringe humiliationdrug use

Skip it tonightSkip if raunchy humor or sequel fatigue will kill the laughs fast.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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