‘Vacation Friends 2’ Review: With Sequels Like This, Who Needs Enemies?
variety.comMichael Nordine author Say this for “Vacation Friends 2”: It isn’t a drastic drop-off from the original. That has less to do with it being a better-than-usual sequel than it does with the first film being just okay.
Still, one supposes there’s something to be said for consistency. Its setup repeats the odd-couple dynamic of its predecessor, with Lil Rel Howery and Yvonne Orji once again playing the straight man/woman to John Cena and Meredith Hagner’s free-spirited loose cannons.
Opposites attract, and so the two couples naturally became besties over several drunken nights in the first film. Not everything that happens in Mexico stays in Mexico, however, and so here we are again in writer-director Clay Tarver’s follow-up, which premieres on Hulu almost exactly two years after its predecessor.
This time around, the quartet is on holiday in the Caribbean with a newborn named after Marcus (Howery) in tow, as Ron (Cena) and Kyla (Hagner) have become parents in the interim.
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