"Sequel Serves up More Mystery, Comedy and Crude Language"

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Like its predecessor, MURDER MYSTERY 2 sets itself apart with beautiful cinematography, genuine, if somewhat irreverent, humor and a positive depiction of married life. Nick and Audrey work well together as a team. Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston deliver good performances. They provide a fun time as a bumbling but effective detective duo. However, MURDER MYSTERY 2 has an excessive, unacceptable number of obscenities and profanities and frequent lewd content.
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MURDER MYSTERY 2 is a sequel to a 2019 mystery comedy on Netflix about a married couple who once again find themselves on a vacation where a dead body turns the planned revelry into a crime fighting caper. Nick and Audrey, struggling to get their entrepreneurial detective agency off the ground, are invited to a rich friend’s wedding on a tropical island. The two prepare to relax and enjoy the festivities. However, when a corpse surfaces, it soon becomes clear that this is a distraction to allow the real crime to be committed, the kidnapping of their rich friend, the groom. Can Nick and Audrey avoid the clutches of the kidnappers and stay alive long enough to solve the case?
Much like its predecessor, MURDER MYSTERY 2 sets itself apart with beautiful cinematography, a genuine if somewhat irreverent sense of humor and a positive depiction of married life. As such, it depicts a husband and wife working well together as a team. Production values are generally high with good performances by the leads, running gags and a good presentation of a bumbling but eventually effective Nick and Nora duo. The movie has some good action sequences and suspense as the Eiffel Tower climax leads to both harrowing and hilarious results.
As in the first movie, Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston have great comedic chemistry as the married detective who really do love each other. The sequel does suffer (though to a slightly lesser degree) from some of the faults as the first movie. Some scenes are action packed, plot driven and quite funny, while others seem lackluster or even orphaned. Overall, the movie is an effectively engaging mystery comedy.
The movie has a light Christian, moral worldview focusing on the positive relationship of a married couple who work together as an effective team to solve a mystery and spend time together. The husband and wife save each other’s life multiple times, support each other in different social situations, and take down many menacing villains together. There’s also a positive reference to prayer. However, MURDER MYSTERY 2 has a really high amount of foul language, including some strong profanities, packed into its 90 minutes. There are also many sexual innuendoes and jokes. The foul language and lewd content make for an excessive, unacceptable combination.