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I really enjoyed the first Vacation Friends movie. There were a lot of laughs and the premise was a good one. The sequel is the complete opposite and is just so boring. The laughs do not land in this one and the script is all over the place. I think this film could have benefited with more time in developement instead of just rushing it out to audiences. I probably really only laughed 2-3x throughout the whole movie. That's a problem especially since this movie is supposed to be a comedy. Vacation Friends 2 reminded me of that cheap straight to dvd film. Vacation Friends gets a low 3 stars out of 10. Skip this one and just watch the original.

The 2 odd couples are here on a planned vacation and post the events of the prequel, they all get along just fine. Only glitch, Marcus Parker has a job to score whereas Ron has to win over his disapproving father-in-law, who by the way is a criminal. Now there's a subplot involving Marcus and Emily trying to have a baby, along with Ron and Kyla's crying baby getting babysit by Carlos. The challenges Marcus and Ron have to face unwillingly in order to secure the deal and impress the father-in-law, respectively forms rest of the story.

The problem here obviously is the lack of funny scenes. Most of them fall flat and unlike the last film, the cast truly couldn't get their charm + comedy timing to make those scenes work. The script is asusual super thin and highly predictable. The novelty surrounding this unlikely friendship is missing in the sequel. They are all already friends here, accepting each other and there isn't much tension involved here. Even the criminal father-in-law angle offers nothing much as the issue is resolved quite easily. Even the prequel was not good but atleast it had a charming John Cena but the charm is off, the second time around.

I am currently watching this movie right now as I am writing this review and the actress playing John Cena's wife is so cringe and her acting is just plain bad. Her performance in this movie makes me feel like not watching anything she will ever be apart of in the future. I don't remember her being this bad in the first one which was enjoyable. I am literally 20 minutes into this movie and already know it's going to be bad. Unfortunate should have done a better job screening this movie. Can't think of too much more of what to write here to fit the minimum characters. Definitely and contemplating if I am actually going to finish this movie. I am betting a super cringe scene where they are trying to hard to be funny fails and I will turn it off.

I enjoyed the first film, plenty of laughs albeit a silly film it was an enjoyable watch. The sequel though was just atrocious, I rarely do reviews bit felt compelled to to do do when I saw 3 10/10 reviews which are just absolute nonsense, such high scores are reserved for the best films you'll ever watch, this was just terrible.

The first gave me laughs, this one barely gave me a smirk, avoid it and stick to the first. I was hoping that it would at the very least give me a few laughs like the first did but neither myself or the family do so and we struggled to remain interested which was a shame.

After the modest streaming success of the first film, a sequel was inevitable in the work. Releasing two years later, there are still fresh memories of the original. The first film wasn't exactly great or that funny but it was harmless entertainment. This sequel tries doing a similar thing but now feels a lot more forced in its comedy.

The story is something which has been done in action films before, with an inevitable drug bust gone wrong type of scenario. Now featuring Steve Buscemi as the father of Kyla who was revealed to have escaped from prison.

The comedy here is just silly over the top antics and more yelling from John Cena and Meredith Hagner. The chemistry between both couples isn't as fresh because they are familiar with one another, where the first film- they didn't know each other so there were surprises which some were funny.