Critics say Murder Mystery 2 is formulaic – but praise Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler in Murder Mystery 2
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Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are on the trail of whodunnit &n🐠dash; again. The sequel to the wildly successful Netflix movie Murder Mystery sees Nick and Audrey set up their own detective agency and, when trouble inevitably comes calling, so, too the pair of sleuths in various exotic locations.

While Mark Strong joins the cast as a hardened ex-MI6 agent, it appears it does𒈔n&rsquoꦉ;t shake up enough of a formula to woo critics – even if the pair of leads impress.

writes. "Yet Sandler and Aniston mesh; they made you believe in Nick and Audrey’s cantankerous marriage, and in the love percolating just beneath the fighting."

"It’s made just-about-watchable by Sandle🌺r and Aniston again, whose combined movie star charm proves magnetic enough to carry us through the flatter moments, both nailing some effectively chaotic physical comedy♒ and maintaining a warm, relaxed chemistry," notes in its three-star review.

Some reviews, however, are a little more withering. compares the detective comedy to Rian Johnson’s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Knives Out series – and it’s not favorable: "Arriving on the heels of Netflix’s far superior Agatha Christie send-up Glass Onion, Murder Mystery 2 will nonetheless be another hit for th൩e streamer. One just hopes that with the next installment, they focus a little less on the production൲ values and a lot more on the comedy." Ouch.

Murder Mystery 2 also gets three stars – is this the most three-star movie of all time? – in ("No one involved in Murder Mystery 2 seems to have worked with any real sense of direction, since th❀e film is more than happy to let Sandler and Aniston take the steering wheel," critic Clarisse Loughrey observes), while dishes out two stars, saying, "Mark Strong gives a winning performance in an otherwise derivative, juvenile and occasionally offensive sequel."

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