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"An empty-headed bubble of testosterone that explodes in the viewer?s face, potentially scarring them for the duration of the film."
-- Joshua Tyler, FILM HOBBIT
"[H]aving Smith play the brash playboy who waves guns around and Lawrence as the responsible family man now feels like a deliberately perverse joke."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES
"Seemingly endless."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"This is a film that is so bad that it forces me to consider whether I might have been a bit hasty when I recently claimed that "Charlie?s Angels: Full Throttle" was one of the worst things ever produced by man."
-- Peter Sobczynski, CRITIC DOCTOR
"Just think: for a nominal fee of $7.50, you too can watch corpses ricocheting off Miami highways and crunching under tires."
-- Audrey Rock-Richardson, TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN (UTAH)
"You won't find chemistry better than this if you searched Tommy Lee's entire underwear drawer."
-- Mark Ramsey, MOVIEJUICE!
"Despite a brisk comic chemistry between Smith and Lawrence and enough vehicular destruction to send an insurance-claims adjuster to therapy, the film starts to seem even longer than its whopping 147 minutes."
-- Donald Munro, FRESNO BEE
"For the most part, it's 'close-up, close-up, explosion, bullet, crash, crash, close-up.'"
-- Eugene Novikov, FILM BLATHER
"Every last bone in its body is hateful, offensive, and sickening."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
"Film's bombastic bad-boy Michael Bay mixes idiocy and pretension in a grotesque wreck of epic proportions."
-- James Rocchi, NETFLIX
"The latest collaboration between director Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, two filmmakers who bring out the worst in each other, is just as bloated and fatuous as their previous efforts."
-- Rene Rodriguez, MIAMI HERALD
"If you stay home from only one movie this summer, make it 'Bad Boys II.'"
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
"A highly questionable 2 1/2 hours."
-- Jane Stevenson, JAM! MOVIES
"'Bad Boys II,' which is nothing more than tired formula, pure and simple, feels longer than 'Pearl Harbor.' And it's got a lot more explosions and violence than that World War II picture, too."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"It would just be way too easy to hate Bad Boys 2. It would be too easy to say the excessive humor involving human cadavers is nauseating. It would be too easy to say that jokes at the expense of dead women are offensive."
-- Fred Topel, ABOUT.COM
"If Bad Boys II had a secondary title, it would be Hurl Harbor; it's that sickening."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"What's most enlightening about Bad Boys 2 is this: you'll never see a better example of filmmakers' contempt for their audience."
-- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"No movie has pursued its own wretchedness with such ferocity."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"Bad Boys II is enough to make a young person feel old, and an old person stop going to the movies."
-- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"The cinematic equivalent of toxic waste."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
Take away its endless trail of bodies, and Bad Boys II is a stale, tedious, woefully acted movie that wastes the talents of Smith and proves once and for all that Lawrence has precious little talent at all."
-- Bill Muller, ARIZONA REPUBLIC
"A simple cop buddy movie extended to unconscionable length in order to accommodate redundant action scenes, endless banter between stars Martin Lawrence and Will Smith and several potential endings, this production suffers from serious overkill."
-- Todd McCarthy, VARIETY
"Basically the longest, the most expensive, most vulgar and by far the stupidest episode of Miami Vice ever"
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"Black Hawk Down on laughing gas."
-- Glenn Lovell, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
"A reptilian collage of seething that stands as possibly the most misanthropic, nihilistic, exploitative, hopeless film ever released as a mainstream blockbuster."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"Routinely blatantly nonsensical, the action is so plentiful, you'll feel like you've been grabbed by the back of the neck and dragged through the picture."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"After viewing Bad Boys II I think the II in the title stands for II long, II loud, II dumb and II bad."
-- Bob Bloom, JOURNAL AND COURIER (LAFAYETTE, IN)
And I'll end with Roger Ebert's comments
"Everybody involved in this project needs to do some community service."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
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