Three weeks after release, I wandered into Ride Along 2 on a weekend where four or five actual new movies came out (it was a timing issue). This is the unwanted sequel to the “made enough money to justify a sequel” Ride Along, starring Ice Cube and the manic overdose in human form Kevin Hart. The first flick was okish (if I’m being very charitable) but I was so disinterested in a sequel, I barely dragged myself into this one.
I’ve heard this is basically a remake of the first movie and that might be the case… I just can’t remember much of anything about the first one as I won’t remember much of this one in a couple days either. It’s pretty mediocre, poorly written, unfunny, and relies on your ability to find the Kevin Hart manic persona funny (or even tolerable).
Weirdly, there was a gang of ten or twelve really old people in the movie with me and they thought everything in the movie was the funniest damn thing they’d ever seen. Stuff from the trailers got huge laughs. That song Sound of Da Beast (“Whoop Whoop That’s the Sound of the Police! Whoop Whoop That’s the sound of the Beast”) plays in the movie and the old ladies left the theater singing “Whoop whoop!”. They were far more entertaining than the movie and actually made the experience of sitting there trapped in the theater more tolerable.
Score: 59