Nick Hendricks (Jason Bateman),Kurt Buckman (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale Arbus (Charlie Day) are best friends who quit their jobs and bet it all on their invention, the Shower Buddy. Rex Hanson (Chris Pine) and his father Bert Hanson (Christoph Waltz) offer to buy 100k units for their catalog business but then double cross them by canceling the order. The guys decide to kidnap Rex with the help of some of the characters from the first movie.

The guys were stupid in the first movie. Dale was a first class idiot. I just don't remember Kurt being as dumb as Dale. It seems like the guys are trying way too hard. The banter overwhelms the movie. It needs to scale back the cross talk a little bit. It's not comedic dialog just because the guys talk over each other.

In the first Horrible Bosses our intrepid trio tended to add two part incompetence with every bad idea they had and the film mixed laughs with just the right dose of dark humour.

In Horrible Bosses 2, this time the mark is Christoph Waltz as the Boss who cheats Day, Bateman and Sudeikis over their Shower Buddy product and decide to kidnap his smarmy son, Chris Pine who is also in on the kidnap so they can all split the ransom.

Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Jamie Foxx who appeared in the first film, pop up again. Things that does not return is a plot, script and jokes.

The trio just drone on and on until you are on the edge of entering a deep coma, then Day's irritating character pulls you out of it before the babbling begins again. Its all filler because the film has no proper script. Waltz in fact only makes a cameo in this movie and is left to Pine to salvage what he can with this film.

The first film had some inventiveness in its dark comedy, even had some cod Hitchcockian overtures. This was just a shambles and the fact that it contains a few laughs saves it from a total bomb rating.

Our three amigos decide to go into business for themselves as they patent "The Shower Buddy." They sign a contract which ends up with the parent company screwing them over. They opt to kidnap Rex, the boss's son (Chris Pine) but mess that up. As it turns out Rex wants to be kidnapped and helps them out. As in the first feature things blow up in their face.

Aniston revives her foul mouthed role which made the first feature super fun. However the comedy in this film is end loaded and it takes a long time for the laughs to come.

My advice is a rental.

Guide: F-bomb, brief small screen sex. No nudity. Crude humor.