A Haunted House 2

There's no doubt the Wayans are funny. Marlon Wayans does a great job carrying this hard-driving sequel. In a similar style as Jim Varney narrating the Ernest films, breaking the fourth wall, the entire then -current crop of horror films (Paranormal Activity, The Conjuring, Annabelle) are lampooned to infinity to mostly good results. The cast does fine, and Gabriel Inglasias and Cedric the Entertainer ads strong comedic support. Largely, however, this is a one man show. This is far-out, "wow, did he really go that far?" type of humor that's falling out of favor in the woke era. Happily, the results are pretty good, but the show runs out of steam (and ideas) before the credits roll. It's a pretty good time, with expectations in check.

The movie is the sequel of the last year's well known horror film parody by Marlon Wayans. It could have been guessed easily, because if we were talking about „scary movies", than the name of the Wayans brothers come into everybody's mind immediately. For me they form a duo, only whose face is enough to being seen on a movie poster to get myself excited about the actual production. It was also the same situation with this movie, but the final result has ended up with a medley packed with hard mix of emotions.

Marlnon Wayans is still hilarious for me, and I think it will never change. Overall I consider the movie a really good entertainment, however the notorious comic actor has some really weird moments when he successfully managed to not poorly exaggerate and overdo his role. Sometimes when something was humorous at the beginning turned out to be a vigorous effort by the end, which is often delayed in time. So it felt to me sometimes, that it's primary purpose was to lengthen the runtime of the movie. So occasionally we can laugh on some scenes at the beginning, but after a short time that smile starts to get faded away, even though the scene continues which was intended to be funny.

The casting crew has changed a little bit. For example Wayans has an other girlfriend who is just as annoying on the big screen (and untalented) than the previous one. However, she's a perfect choice for an aesthetic element (most likely it was the goal of her role). The children do not appear on the screen so often, which made me really happy initially, because personally speaking I'm not really keen for the young actors. Buti n this movie, when the young boy was just about showing up for a minute and saying a short monologue, a loud laughter erupted from me. I really rarely say that to a child actor, but I think he did a remarkable job!

In addition, the range of characters extended with a Mexican-style amigo (who plays Wayans neighbor by the way). He's become my favorite after his first appearance on the screen. I was infatuated with listening to his non-sense spiels, and I've just loved him creating more and more amusing sentences within fractions of a second.

Otherwise the funny scenes of the movie were very similar to what we could experience in its predecessor, so if you liked the first one you'd probably like this one about the same. I think they overdid the sex-related gags a little bit. 2 or 3 are even funny, the 5th is not so, but after the tenth the production is about getting really dull and monotonous. However, the film is not too long, so it doesn't leave us enough time to get bored.

Overall, the movie is not worthy for the standard created by the classic „Scary Movie", but I consider it a perfect evening entertainment, if you simply wanna have fun.

Rating 5/10

Thanks for spending your precious free time with reading my review! Hope you liked it!

i wasn't going to watch due to all the negative comments then thought if i went by all the comments I've read id have probably only ever gotten to watch 2 movies in my life. so watched it and had a darn good laugh. if you have a sense of humor and didn't laugh, lighten up, bottle of wine, relax and watch again. not every movie is going to be a blockbuster. I've read some long winded reviews on here about some movies...like your the only "film critic" on the planet and you must get your point across to the dumb asses who might be about to watch it. we are all individuals,different tastes,so if you didn't like a movie for any reason say so in 3 words instead of trying to turn the whole world against it

It's easy to understand the mixed feelings and harsh reviews. This is no Driving Miss Daisy. You are in Wayans World and if you don't know what that means, you probably don't belong there.

Surpassing the ridiculous to almost the sublime, in moments. Expect boat loads of bodily functions, indescribable scenes of coarse silliness and at least 2 ways to kill a dog. Oh, and a set piece 'cock fight' (no spoilers).

More than just a series of gags, there is effort on display from all involved. Wayans screeches and mugs to the camera while we explore race issues and flatuence.

Your enjoyment or repulsion will depend entirely on your expectations. If you like the Wayans brand, it's far from the worst. It's no 'Don't be a menace...' or an early Scary Movie; still, a riot which hits the target. Bullseye it is not.

I give it 5.3 farts out of a soiling.

I didn't want to give 7/10, but 6/10. The main reason is because most people didn't quite appreciate this movie.

This is just another form of comedy (such as "meet the spartans") which "most" people don't want to understand. The kind of movie where you spoil everything, really everything and it turns out to be really hilarious!

You can't go to the cinema and watch this film and expect nice little laughs like other typical Hollywood comedies. This is totally different.

Compared to the previous episode, well many similar sequences. Won't place spoilers, but quite repeating. Still very funny.

The main actor did a wonderful job at making this movie really funny.

The cast consists of more or less same people from the 1st episode.

Contains plenty of swearing, racial words, very direct interracial swearing, some nudity, violence.

Mixed up parody of several movies together, all bundles into having a good time laughing. Never had such a laugh with typical Hollywood comedy.

If you didn't laugh at the beginning of this movie, well, don't continue, you won't like it. But if you had a laugh, then just don't blink :D

Cheers, an absolute must-watch when u want some good laughs.