Bad Boys IIMovie Reviews

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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.

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    Bay's movie is also a confident mega-production that feels it doesn't need to lean on its visual frills if it has Smith and Lawrence -- it's a natural-born buddy flick. Read full review

  • 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

  • 63
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    Beyond turbocharged. It whooshes along at warp speed. And still, despite some awesomely choreographed stunts and the two stars' pedal-to-the-metal appeal, the movie seems endless. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Wilmington

    The kind of movie that gives sequels a bad name, even though, strangely enough, it's better than the 1995 hit that spawned it. 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
    Wall Street Journal |

    Like our two loose cannons with badges, the movie misses its target at least as often as it hits it. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Daily News | Jami Bernard

    If you think you're tough enough, go ahead and sit through the endurance test that is Bad Boys 2, a brutal, 2 1/2-hour display of production overkill. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    Appallingly mean-spirited. 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


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 Sexy stuff: 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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