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Avg. Critic Score: 38 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 not for kids
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Sheri Linden

    However masterful, the first-rate stunt work, effects, action cinematography and cutting (by no less than three editors) lose impact through sheer repetition. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Bad Boys II proves that it's possible to pack a movie with so much popcorn that it leaves the audience overdosed. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Might be considered three action sequences and four comedy routines in search of a story. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Just too much of a mediocre thing. It didn't have to be that way. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    With a body built for action and a smile made for comedy, Smith eases through his scenes -- cool but never scary, a touch hip-hop and thoroughly audience-friendly. And unlike Lawrence, he can act. Smith's ability to put over a scene, combined with his matinee charm, goes a long way to making the film's violence palatable. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    The best moments come when Mr. Smith and Mr. Lawrence are permitted to pause from their action-hero duties and run their funny, unpredictable mouths. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    As overblown as it is overlong, Bad Boys II is an enervating case of more is less. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    Appallingly mean-spirited. Read full review

  • 25
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The movie is so choppy in its nervous editing that a lot of the time we're simply watching senseless kinetic action. Read full review

  • 0
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Bad Boys II has everything. Everything loud, dumb, violent, sexist, racist, misogynistic and homophobic that producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay can think of puking up onscreen. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids Generic, loud and violent action; not for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie pushes the R rating to almost the NC-17 level with very graphic violence. Corpses spill into a street, a character is chopped up and presented to his partner in parts, with blood dripping out of him, and more. There is extreme, extended peril and violence, and many deaths. Characters use extremely strong language with constant profanity, including racist terms. There are sexual references and situations, including references to impotence and rather homophobic humor. We also see some highly improbable animal sex. Characters drink, and smoke, and at one point it is supposed to be humorous when Marcus gets stoned on Ecstasy. Characters of many races show some prejudice but work together with respect and loyalty and a female character is strong, brave, and capable.
  • Families can talk about how different people decide which risks they will take.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: The movie pushes the R rating to almost the NC-17 level with very graphic violence. Extreme, extended peril.
  • sex false5 Sex: Skimpy clothes, naked dead bodies, sexual references including impotence.
  • language false5 Language: Characters use extremely strong language with constant profanity, including racist terms.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false5 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking, drug dealing, drug-taking portrayed comically.
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