The first film was delightfully wrong and deliciously inappropriate. This one was just painful to watch. Everyone swearing for no reason like it's a pathology of theirs. It was sad to see Thornton, Bates, and everyone else, for that matter, stuck trudging through that B.S., like they were sold a bill of goods and had no choice but to fulfill their contracts and finish it. Believe me, we both tried to view it with open minds but there seemed to be no respite from the mean-spirited negativity. One can usually see hints of how characters may end up redeeming themselves but the blunted, humorless way the story was told during the first half hour failed to instill us with any confidence that the other two-thirds of the film wouldn't be an unpleasant waste of our time. Irredeemably offensive. A tragic waste of everyone's time.
Review of Bad Santa 2
