While the foul language, misanthropic attitude, and cynical performances still come into focus, even squinting might not pick up much in the way of the first film's clever plotting, genuine wit, and sneaky subversive streak running throughout.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 17, 2021

A bevy of supporting roles provide almost no real laughs, despite the fact that they're added solely for comic relief.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 4, 2020

There's something genuinely awesome and genuinely awful about a film in which the leading characters all are relentlessly cruel to one another yet.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

The film seems overly structured, stripped of anything resembling subtlety, and largely devoid of jokes or anything you'd be tempted to laugh at.

| Apr 28, 2020

But what separates Bad Santa 2 from so many other films of this type is that it made me laugh.

| Mar 30, 2020

It may be difficult to impossible to shock us jaded filmgoers in this dark timeline, but Bad Santa 2's writers Johnny Rosenthal and Shauna Cross gives it the old college try.

| Jan 15, 2020

Despite choice casting and returning core characters, this yuletide formula is missing the requisite spice to reach the same heights of comedic arousal.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2019

Joyless and dour rather than savagely funny

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 4, 2019

Released 13 years after the darkly funny yet rather uplifting original, this sequel is a bad-tempered misery fest which laughs at the weaker or less privileged. Which, if I were more of a chin-stroker, I would suggest is much like society now.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2018

Plot holes are glaring, even more noticeable thanks to the series of flat one-liners and any fleeting moments that do work are usually followed with long stretches that just lie on the screen like a fruitcake that gets re-gifted multiple times.

| Original Score: D | Nov 13, 2018

It's just a lazy attempt to cash in on that sweet, sweet nostalgia that's all the rage without the burden of originality.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 1, 2018

Honestly, we all deserve better. Do yourself a favor this holiday season and give yourself the gift of self-worth, skip this Christmas brick and re-watch the original Bad Santa.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Oct 25, 2018

Billy Bob Thornton is once more perfect as the embittered Willie. He hasn't changed a bit and you can't help but love him for it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2018

If you're forced into close quarters with relatives you can't stand, you could do far worse than sneaking off to check out the boundary-pushing gags found here.

| Jun 28, 2018

It's like Willie said when Thurman found Asprin in his advent calendar - "Well they can't all be winners".

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2017

Yes, a mere 13 years after the original, Billy Bob Thornton and Tony Cox are back with Bad Santa 2 and it's just as foul-mouthed and tasteless as ever.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 17, 2017

Bad Santa 2 is not that terrible and is saved by its emotional ending. Just don't watch it if you are easily offended.


| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2017

Ultimately, Bad Santa 2 proves to be the equivalent of a kid getting a board game for Christmas when they wanted a Xbox One.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 19, 2017

When you remember how well the first Bad Santa drew its characters-with depth and cruelty and razor-sharp precision-the sequel is less "White Christmas" and more white elephant.

| Aug 24, 2017

It's fitting that the star of "Misery" is here for the torture that follows.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 8, 2017