Ride along 2 isnt worth the trip buddy cops ride along 2, starring ice cube and kevin hart, brave soldiers hours. See what critics are saying about hours and ride along 2. Ride along 2 is a 2016 american buddy cop comedy film directed by tim story and written by. Ride along 2 doubles down on this formula, but its wearing thin. And while its all done for the sake of the movies comedy, its also clear that ride along really does think the end justifies the means.
Overall, the adventures of tintin sits higher on rotten tomatoes list of toprated comic book and graphic novel movies than batman, iron man 2, and the amazing spiderman. If your eardrums can take it, ride along is perfectly inoffensive, incredibly unrealistic, adequately paced. Ride along 2 year 2016 genre crime comedy action type movies idmb rating 5. This weekend, the buddy comedy sequel ride along 2 earned the distinction of booting alltime champ star wars. The 22 best comic book movies that arent marvel or dc. Jan 16, 2016 though ice cube and kevin hart have made had a hilarious promotional tour for ride along 2, the sequel to 2014s ride along isnt making the critics laugh.
Ride along, ride along 2 and more than a couple with dwayne johnson central intelligence. Ride along is a 2014 american buddy cop comedy film directed by tim story and starring ice. A sequel, ride along 2, was released on january 15, 2016. It also has all the bythenumbers twists that anyone familiar with the police comedy genre can see coming. He reluctantly takes ben with him to follow up on a lead in miami. Ride along 2 may be the first mainstream comedy in years to feature a cast this diverse and for that it deserves some sort of accolade. Yet, ride along 2 works much better than anticipated. Jan 17, 2014 allowing ben to masquerade as a police officer is a pretty big infraction, and its just the beginning.
Universal pictures released the film on january 15, 2016. He reveals to the team that pope is the real crook, despite him having a public image as an entrepreneur working alongside the new port commissioner nunez robert pralgo. Kevin hart and ice cube are mugging in miami in this listless sequel two accomplished comedians are reduced to a shrill lucy and ricky ricardo with guns in this. The sites critical consensus reads, ride along 2 presents a copcomedy sequel whose wellmatched stars cant break the law of diminishing returns or lock up a script that unabashedly steals from the original.
Enter ride along 2, which moves the buddycop action to florida but essentially rehashes the plot of its predecessor with fewer laughs. The original ride along smoothed over some of its many inconsistencies with the chemistry between its two leads. Ice cube and kevin hart team up for another bad buddy cop movie. Pg, for sequences of violence, sexual content, language and some drug material. Kevin hart and ice cube lead the lineup in ride along, the new film from the director and.
If anything, its perhaps slightly more amusing and agreeable than the originala sign of how little that films seemingly surefire premise wound up mattering. Ride along 2 is one those sequels that didnt need to be made, but now that its existence cant be argued, should have and could have been better than it is. For the sequel, somehow critics managed to like the budding franchise even less, affording ride along 2 an even lower 16% score from rotten tomatoes. Kevin hart and ice cube reprise their mismatched buddycop roles hart chatters, cube glowers only this time, harts character actually is a probationary police officer. Ride along 2014 for two years, security guard ben kevin hart has tried to convince james ice cube, a veteran cop, that he is worthy of james sister, angela. Parents need to know that along for the ride offers a realistic portrayal of teen life that includes drinking, romance, and some nongraphic sex. Ride along 2 presents a copcomedy sequel whose wellmatched stars cant break the law of diminishing returns or lock up a script that unabashedly steals from the original. Watching hart and cube develop into possible brothersinlaw in the first movie was reason enough to, yes, ride along with the thin plot. Fasten your seat belts and brace yourselves for another wild ride when kevin hart and ice. Skip rotten tomatoes, theyre biased sjws too afraid to criticize things like the ghost busters reboot. Ride along 2 reloads twin barrels of ice cube and kevin hart. Kevin hart and ice cube lead the returning lineup of ride along 2, the sequel to the blockbuster actioncomedy that gave us the years most.
Get hard, the wedding ringer, a recently graduated police rookie, now aspires to be a detective like his soontobe brotherinlaw, but james ice cube. Rent ride along 2 2016 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Youll notice we replaced the 5star fan ratings with the rotten tomatoes audience score to help you choose a movie to watch. Ride along 2 isnt worth the trip jan 14, 2016 critics were less than kind to ice cube and kevin harts last ride along back in 2014, but the pairs inherent likability led to a healthy box office take. View hd trailers and videos for ride along 2 on rotten tomatoes, then check our tomatometer to find out what the critics say. The implausibilities, copmovie checkboxes, and mildly wasted talent make ride along 2 lazy, but not downright loathsome. Ride along 2 2016 14% ice cube and kevin hart star in this sequel to the buddy cop comedy about a hardnosed detective who must put up with his rookie cop future brotherinlaw to take down a. Tomatoes even better than ride along 18% rotten and ride along 2 14%, two mlk releases to which many keep comparing bad boys.
The film stars kevin hart, ice cube, ken jeong, benjamin bratt, olivia munn, bruce mcgill and tika sumpter. Aug 24, 2018 the movie is a rare example of critics and the audience being perfectly in sync, as both gave the movie a 74% rating on rotten tomatoes. Spiderman gets a title, firestarter gets a remake, indiana jones gets pushed back, and jared leto doubles down on comic book roles. Maverick, and more movie news rotten tomatoes movie and tv news. Arts emmys 2015 breaking bad academy awards star trek epix ovation game of thrones latino marvel television shudder nat geo comic book cartoon network oneapp showtime foreign awards tour serial killer marvel studios versus casting streaming lgbt rock rotten movies we love travel abc. Jan 14, 2016 ride along 2 lazily retreads familiar ground. Miles teller, nicholas hoult on shortlist to play gooses son in top gun.
In ride along 2, kevin hart, left, and ice cube revisit this buddycop franchise, opening on friday. This week on dvd, weve got a comedy sequel, a holidaythemed horror comedy, and the winner of the best foreign language film oscar, plus a littleseen western and a few choice releases from the criterion collection. Ben, too, often bends or breaks the law along the way. Though ice cube and kevin hart have made had a hilarious promotional tour for ride along 2, the sequel to 2014s ride along isnt making the critics laugh.
The force awakens wore off this week as universal pictures ride along 2 unseated the latest chapter in the space saga from the top spot its. Ride along 2, the best exotic marigold hotel 2, what if aka the f word, and tracks release dates. Ride along 2 pictures and movie photo gallery check out just released ride along 2 pics, images, clips, trailers, production photos and more from rotten tomatoes movie pictures archive. Shortlists the 45 best book tofilm adaptations ever. Rotten tomatoes ride along 2 2016 01 ride along 2014. Posted by asdf asd on november 18, 2017 march 25, 2020.
Based on the vertigo comic book series from dc entertainment, the film stars oscar nominee melissa mccarthy, tiffany haddish and elisabeth moss as three 1978 hells kitchen housewives whose. Ride along 2 isnt worth the trip ride along back in 2014, but the pairs inherent likability led to a healthy box office take. Ride along 2 crashes and burns movies vox magazine. Tomatoes even better than ride along 18% rotten and ride along 2 14 %, two mlk releases to which many keep comparing bad boys. In fact, rotten tomatoes gives the movie a 14% rating and a critical consensus of ride along 2 presents a copcomedy sequel whose wellmatched stars cant break the law of diminishing returns or lock up a script that unabashedly steals from the original. Director tim story runtime 1 h 42 min release date 14 january 2016 genres action, comedy overview. Ride along 2 is a 2016 american buddy cop comedy film directed by tim story and written by phil hay and matt manfredi.
Kevin harts livewire presence gives ride along a shot of necessary energy, but it isnt enough to rescue this wouldbe comedy from the buddycop doldrums. Ride along 2 ice cube and kevin hart reteam, and add ken jeong to their ranks, in this tired, witless and potentially lucrative sequel. Kevin hart and ice cube lead the returning lineup of ride along 2, the sequel to the blockbuster actioncomedy that gave us the years most popular comedy duo. But when the wild night leads them to the most notorious criminal in the city, james will find that his new partners rapidfire mouth is just as dangerous as the bullets speeding at it. The film stars ice cube, kevin hart, ken jeong, benjamin bratt, olivia munn, bruce mcgill and tika sumpter. Youre giving it a major splat right on to its getting only 15% right now on a rotten tomatoes and josh iraq cough timeout rights eddie murphy please come. But for me, comedian kevin harts crude and raunchy motormouth shtick is wearing thin. Bland, lazy, and unable to elevate itself to the low standards of its predecessor, ride along 2 is a ride not work taking. Ride along 2 starts to look like nothing more than a blatant cash grab. Jan 17, 2014 ride along really isnt much of a movie, but the quality that makes it mostly watchable, and occasionally enjoyable, is the fact that it seems to know that it isnt much of a movie, and doesnt push against that fact too much. While it found success in its opening, ride along 2 doesnt appear to have that much appeal.
Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing ride along 2 near you. And then, last year, a new book called frozen hell. Even though the police are the heroes in ride along 2, the closing credits ironically roll to krsone s song sound of da police, which refers to a policeman as a wicked overseer and a beast and suggests that dealing with the police is no better than being enslaved. Although these teens are just out of high school, theres a lot of beer drinking done by all. Kevin harts ride along 2 is the number 1 movie in america. Theres no moral here, no message, no real reason for this movie to exist other than to make universal pictures money and to try to coax the cheapest of laughs from its paying customers. With a score of 15 percent on rotten tomatoes, critics are calling ride along 2, the sequel to 2014s film starring ice cube and kevin hart, as. Between grudge matchwhich was technically a dec, about last night and now ride along the guy is on a tear. Ride along 1 and 2 kevin hart comedy 20142016 eng subs. Join comedic duo kevin hart and ice cube in ride along, the actionpacked comedy full of laughs and big thrills.
Ride along 2 jaar 2016 idmb score 5,9 51157 stemmen netflix score 5,9 metacritics score 32,0 rotten tomatoes score 14,0% directors tim story actors kevin hart, ken jeong, sherri shepherd, utkarsh ambudkar, bruce mcgill, olivia munn, ice cube, benjamin bratt, glen powell, tika sumpter. Also starring john leguizamo and laurence fishburne, ride along is an actionpacked comedy with big thrills and even bigger laughs. With a score of 15 percent on rotten tomatoes, critics are calling ride along 2, the sequel to 2014s film starring ice cube and kevin hart, as funny as lead poisoning and a painfully unfunny. The reason for that is the ace comic chemistry between its stars, ice cube and kevin hart. This time out, hardnosed detective james cube heads to miami with future brotherinlaw ben hart. Thats fine and all, but it doesnt make the case for the ride along series as any kind of great buddy cop movie, especially when you factor in the non. The secret soldiers of benghazi, starring john krasinski and james badge dale, and a bear in the big apple norm of the north, featuring the voices of rob schneider and heather graham. This week at the movies, weve got buddy cops ride along 2. The book that inspired the thing was published, adding another 45 pages to the original novella to make it a proper novellength story. Critics were not that happy with the movie in comparison to the first ride along. Rent ride along 2 2016 starring ice cube and kevin hart on dvd and bluray. Not surprisingly, and just like the seventh star wars outing, ride along 2 pretty much employs the same crowdpleasing blueprint as the initial goround.
View hd trailers and videos for ride along 2 on rotten tomatoes, then. Then follow up as the brothersinlaw return for even more laughs and excitement in the hilarious sequel, ride along 2. Ben kevin hart longs to marry his gorgeous girlfriend angela tika sumpter, but before he can propose he must first get the approval of her toughasnails brother james ice cube, a top detective in. Can bad boys for life keep the sony franchise alive. Now we have a sequel, which is essentially the same movie all over again.