Review Roundup—Did Critics Like the Sequel?

3. Forbes' Scott Mendelson says Ride Along 2 is a "painfully unfunny action farce that can't even live up to the meager pleasures of its predecessor."

"The original Ride Along was a pretty terrible movie that scored just enough laughs to justify a recommendation," he writes. "Sadly, Ride Along 2 is 0/2, with pretty much the same paint-by-numbers plotting and significantly fewer chuckles. What's most distressing is that it basically repeats the character relationship and character arcs of the first film, existing as if the first picture never happened."

4. The A.V. Club's Jesse Hassenger says, "Kevin Hart and Ice Cube's chemistry is squandered again in Ride Along 2."

"The implausibilities, cop-movie checkboxes, and mildly wasted talent make Ride Along 2 lazy, but not downright loathsome," he writes. "If anything, it's perhaps slightly more amusing and agreeable than the original—a sign of how little that film's seemingly surefire premise wound up mattering. The sequel, meanwhile, functions as an object lesson in the way the mildest likability can convince actors and filmmakers that they're doing something right. Hart and Cube probably had chemistry on set, and assumed it would translate into big laughs onscreen."

5. IGN.com's Max Nicholson says Ride Along 2 is "the kind of movie that's best watched in the comfort of your own home, preferably for free and while consuming alcohol."

"As the followup to an already poorly received buddy comedy, it won't be changing any minds about Kevin Hart or Ice Cube," he writes. "It's not without an occasional laugh or two—I stress 'occasional'—but Ride Along 2 lacks emotion, runs long and doesn't precipitate enough laughs to justify the price of admission."