Bad Santa 2 (2016)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Why so much hype?

Such a frustrating disappointment

i must have seen a different film!!

Alcoholic disaster Willie Soke, saved from suicide by loveable man-child Thurman Merman, moves to Chicago where he runs up against his old deeply unpleasant dwarf sidekick Marcus Skidmore and his even more deeply unpleasant mother Sunny. Together, the 3 of them plan to rob a charity which hires down-and-outs to be - yes, you guessed it - Santas under the guidance of dodgy philanthropist Regent and his big-breasted sex-starved wife Diane. Crime and sex ensues.I never saw the original, but I get the joke: wouldn't it be funny if there was a Santa whose every quality was diametrically opposed to everything Santa stood for? Well, apparently, it was such a good joke that it merits a sequel, albeit it had to wait for 13 years.This film has an ugly start - the fundamentally unlikeable Wille Soke, bemoaning his life, tries (and fails) to commit suicide. It then moves through a series of unpleasant events in which unlikeable people do unlikeable things (the most likeable of these being when Christina Hendricks repeatedly yells "F*ck me!", in the throes of a knee-termbler with a fully-Santa-clothed Billy Bob Thornton against a dumpster down a scuzzy back street alley.The only likeable character is Thurman Merman, 8 years old in the original movie and now 21 but acting in every respect as if he was still 8: a nice character, but not even slightly believable.The film contains profanity on an industrial pollution scale (not unexpected, but not very edifying either) and is profoundly unpleasant in almost every respect.Yet I laughed. Not constantly, and not that deeply, but it did raise chuckles fairly frequently. I suspect that this makes me a bad person, but I take comfort from the fact that I am no worse than the people who made this horrible film.I am ashamed to say that my lower lip trembled during the Silent Night sequence.

This movie is better enjoyed after watching the first. There are plot points that are relevant. But regardless of this, just like the first movie it is a hilarious adult comedy. I just binge watched both and the first one is just a tad better. Perhaps because of the originality, bu the second contains more profanity.... hummm tough choice. Not juvenile sexual humor, rather very serious and extremely funny. Highly recommended.

We all love the first film, it was great, this film is very dark and very awful.first at the end of the first film, willy had redeemed himself and turned into the good guy, but in this, he seems like a bad guy again, being nasty to the "kid" trying to steal from him and stuff.. and that black dwarf guy is bad and I hate him, I really hate him after he killed the store security guy in the first film, and he was talking about tea bagging people. then Kathy bates shows up and I dont know if the film makers intended her to be as revolting as she looks here, but she literally made me sick looking at her. I dont wanna see some saggy old women in underwear AT ANY POINT IN MY LIFE. the film is just dark and doesn't have any good gags, and at the end when it shows them photos of Willys ball sack on the dwarfs face was too much, I dont wanna see ball sacks in movies I watch

Willie Soke (Billy Bob Thornton) is still a drunken screw up. Happy endings are BS. He tries to commit suicide only to be saved by The Kid, clueless Thurman Merman. Marcus Skidmore (Tony Cox) gets early release from prison and has a job lined up in Chicago, robbing a charity run by Diane Hastings (Christina Hendricks). They infiltrate by joining the Santa charity and then it's revealed that Willie's mother Sunny Soke (Kathy Bates) is the leader of the scam.It's not funny anymore. It's not so outrageously new. Even the Kid is no longer a kid. He's still chubby but the humor is gone. It's sad to sit thru an unfunny comedy. I wonder if a sequel could be made of him struggling to make it work in the suburbs with Sue. Kathy Bates competes for an ugly off. Billy Bob is lifeless. Hendricks is cold. Not much is funny here.