Review by Benn Robbins |
Produced by Matt Alvarez, Larry Brezner,
Ice Cube, Will Packer, J. C. Spink
Written by Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi
Based on Characters by Greg Coolidge
Directed by Tim Story
Starring Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Tika Sumpter,
Benjamin Bratt, Olivia Munn, Ken Jeong,
Sherri Shepherd, Bruce McGill,
Nadine Velazquez, Tyrese Gibson
Sequels in general usually are pretty crappy.
Of course you can get the occasional Godfather Part II or Road Warrior.
Hell, you can even find a Bad Boys 2 or even Lethal Weapon 2 to be almost as good as the original. But normally sequels fall into the Mummy 2 or Speed 2: Cruise Control realm. i.e. TERRIBLE.
Which brings us to Ride Along 2.
It is not TERRIBLE!
What it is is the inevitable and somewhat enjoyable return of the “Brothers-in-Law” as the tag phrase of the film so pun-fully touts. RA2 is about as fun as the first.
Neither ground breaking or visually challenging, it is more of the same. That isn’t entirely a bad thing, but like I wrote in my review for the original film, “it isn’t going to be winning any awards”.
What it does do is gives the audience a safe, fun action film. Buddy cop meets family-tension comedy.
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