The first movie
birthed a second, which by 2019 will birth a TV series based on it, and then
there’s a possible sequel, Bad Boys for Life, set to be released in
2020—if they can get production off the ground. With all that, I guess we can
call Bad Boys a franchise.
The
first Bad Boys to me was just a classic buddy-cop movie. The
’90s is when we grew to love Will Smith. Although Martin Lawrence was doing all
right, Will Smith was in our faces. Bad Boys (1995) cemented his
status as an actor who could switch from silly-funny to drop-dead serious.
Bad Boys 2, however, proved that even good actors like Will Smith can make
crappy movies that’ll make you want to puke.
Nothing
about Bad Boys 2 was meant to make you like the movie. The comedy was
forced, and the action was all over the place. I’ll humbly ask you to avoid it.
The plot still
has both leads, Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) and Mike Lowrey (Will Smith),
as partners. This is eight years after Bad Boys (1995),
and now our duo is trying to bring down another drug lord—a Cuban.
Well, the plot was so flimsy that the duo isn’t directly on his trail. Instead,
they start at the other end, chasing the spread of ecstasy to a KKK member.
It’s Burnett’s sister who’s actually on the trail of the man behind the drug
ring. She’s undercover, and somehow, their paths cross—which isn’t surprising.
Now, with her trying to bust this drug ring from the inside, these two are
going all guns blazing, trying to bring it down from the outside.
Like most movies of this kind, you can probably guess the ending. The girl gets
into trouble, and these two bumbling heads show up to save her and the day.
Yes, there’s some bonding at the end of the movie, but I guess you’ll have to
ignore my warnings not to see it to find out.
The movie was a
commercial success but received worse reviews than the first one. We all know
Hollywood won’t look a gift horse in the mouth, so they’re trying to get a
third installment going.
As for the TV series coming out in 2019, I hope it does better than the last
set of buddy-cop shows (Rush Hour, Lethal Weapon), which have either been
canceled or aren’t doing well enough.
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