This film is far from perfect, but it made me and some other terribly frightened folks laugh for a while in the dark.
The whole series is based on the notion that no one is any better than his worst impulse.
We have long hoped that there might one day be a sequel. We need to be careful what we wish for.
At its best, Bad Santa 2 feels like an echo of its predecessor. At its worst, it's unfunny, crass, and uncomfortable (not in a good way).
Once-edgy jokes about Santa's vomit-caked beard, his open hostility toward children, and sexual proclivities in line with R. Crumb are now compulsory elements, like Bruce Willis saying 'Yippie-ki-yay' in a Die Hard sequel.
No doubt some critics will slam Bad Santa 2 as a lump of coal in our holiday movie stockings. To which I would say: why be so rough on lumps of coal?
We asked for a filthy new Bad Santa for Christmas and now know the same letdown as unwrapping a box of sensible socks on Dec. 25, albeit dirty ones.
Bad Santa 2 doesn't hate Christmas. It just hates women.
Bad Santa 2 has to make do with director Mark Waters (Mean Girls), who is both more sentimental and more accepting of broad, panicky comedy.
This sequel actively devalues the compassion-on-the-knife-edge-of-misanthropy that distinguished the original in favor of a mainstream gross-out cartoon.
Brett Kelly's breakout performance makes Thurman a classic Christmas movie character - if only there were more of his goodness and less of the badness.
If ever there was a movie that should never have been made, 'Bad Santa 2' is that movie.
While Ms. Bates can be a nimble scene stealer, decking her out in tattoos and punk jewelry is not enough to spark an uninspired script.
'Bad Santa 2' insults the intelligence and taste of the first film's audience by including all of the biliousness and vulgarity of the first film, but none - or precious little - of its scabrous joie de vivre.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
2016-11-22 by Colin Covert
Trying to recapture that dark magic doesn't work the second time around. This lazy sequel is a lump of coal in a dirty stocking.
Bad Santa 2 is the kind of sequel that makes you appreciate the intangibles of the creative process. It demonstrates how a lousy movie can be made from basically the same ingredients as a good one.
Willie may not have a heart of gold. But he's got a heart of bloody, barely thumping meat, same as the rest of us. And in this bitter season of unceasing, frostbitten darkness, it's heart enough.
This sequel's main cast is still in fine form, but the rehashed jokes feel past their prime.
San Francisco Chronicle
2016-11-22 by Walter V. Addiego
It's rote stuff, not nearly as funny as filmmaker Mark Waters and company seem to think.
The plot takes a backseat to the insults and gross-out lines. Fine, maybe, but it's been done - in the 2003 film.
Bad Santa 2 shows absolutely no reason why it was made, except to display a little bit of heart for the holiday season. It is by no means a bad film, but I will take the original over this sequel.
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Bad Santa is a 2003 American comedy film directed by Terry Zwigoff, and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham, Brett Kelly, Lauren Tom, John Ritter, and Bernie Mac. It was John Ritter's last film appearance before his death on September 11, 2003. Kathy Bates and Brett Kelly in Bad Santa 2 (2016) Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa 2 (2016). This film is okay but I will not go out of my way to watch it again!