Starring Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Gillian Jacobs and Chevy Chase, Paramount and MGM’s Oscar-weekend release is tipped to earn $15 million or more. It was pushed back from its original Christmas Day release date, when it was set to square off against “The Interview” with Seth Rogen and James Franco.
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New York Post’s Kyle Smith notes, “Within five minutes you’ll guess why Cusack, not overly encumbered with big film roles these days, didn’t return for the sequel: The script is monotonous, meandering and witless, frantically ramming together middle-school non-ideas such as a guy being forced to rape another guy on a reality show, or a guy’s testicles projectile-exploding into the faces of two other guys, or a guy being shot in both the head and the man-parts. … The smart plotting of the first film is completely gone.”
