Horrible Bosses 2 is as funny as Charlie Day. That’s good or bad, depending on your interpretation of the previous sentence. Put another way, you will like Horrible Bosses 2 if you enjoy watching obnoxious, grating, and idiotic characters doing obnoxious, grating and idiotic things for two hours. If you don’t… well, you’re probably not a Charlie Day fan.

As I watched Horrible Bosses 2, it reminded me a lot of... the original Horrible Bosses. And I don’t remember a whole lot about that movie other than it being mildly funny, somewhat annoying and not nearly as good as it should have been. It certainly didn’t need or deserve a sequel. But money talks, and here we are giving Charlie fucking Day another leading role.

The best part of the original—and this is something I do remember—is the bosses. The worst part was the protagonists (Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day), and their endless bantering. Horrible Bosses 2 unfortunately relies much more heavily on the latter this time around.

If you like watching Bateman, Sudeikis and Day coming up with inane plans, messing those plans up, arguing with one another and then repeating the process over and over again—and there are plenty of people who do—then you’ll find Horrible Bosses 2 a very enjoyable experience. The movie does offer some good laughs, and the story is just smart enough to make the most of things.

While Kevin Spacey is understandably relegated to an extended cameo role, the film makes good use of Jennifer Aniston despite her character no longer being central to the story arc. Chris Pine is a good addition, though his character begins to get just as tiresome as all the others after a while. Bateman, playing the straight arrow of the group, serves as a pleasant oasis of calmness amongst the clowns.

But ultimately, Horrible Bosses 2 just isn’t that funny. For every time I laughed at what the characters did, I wanted to punch, strangle, shoot or otherwise harm them twice as much. Their idiotic antics grow tedious quickly, and you’ve probably already guessed what I think of Charlie Day (oddly, he never bothers me in “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”—maybe because you only get him in short bursts on TV).

How much you like the movie depends on how much you liked the first one. Horrible Bosses 2 is a worthwhile sequel that harkens back to the first one while not doing the exact same thing (but pretty close)… and if you found the first one funny, you’ll probably enjoy this one just as much. If you didn’t, however… well, you’ll laugh, but mainly you’ll want to commit murder.

Review by Erik Samdahl. Erik is a marketing and technology executive by day, avid movie lover by night. He is a member of the Seattle Film Critics Society.