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29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlLike your smartphone, it's a testament to the theory of interchangeable parts, a perfectly engineered product that, if you're charitable, you might also think of in terms of art....But every time I started to believe that there's some parodic impulse behind the filmmakers' recasting of clichés, Cube's character would punch a suspect in custody or commit some other violation of civil liberties that the film invites us to cheer.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyKevin P. SullivanEntertainment WeeklyKevin P. SullivanRide Along 2, which moves the action from Atlanta to Miami, plays more like a remake than a sequel.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperRide Along 2 is the movie equivalent of a cover band. We’ve seen it all before, and often in much better films.
- 50The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe implausibilities, cop-movie checkboxes, and mildly wasted talent make Ride Along 2 lazy, but not downright loathsome. If anything, it’s perhaps slightly more amusing and agreeable than the original—a sign of how little that film’s seemingly surefire premise wound up mattering.
- 42ConsequenceRandall ColburnConsequenceRandall ColburnHart, the firecracker that he is, has a fitting comedic (and crime-fighting) partner out there somewhere. But it’s not in the Ride Along series.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckWith a storyline less challenging than that of a typical CBS crime procedural, Ride Along 2 is little more than a repetitive rehash of the original.
- 40New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottNew Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottFor better and for worse, it's neither better nor worse than the original "Ride Along." That's because it's essentially the same movie.
- 30TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeThe film’s most genuinely funny moment involves A.J.’s ringtones, which should perhaps come as no surprise — the stakes, and the laughs, are so small that Ride Along 2 was apparently designed to be watched on your phone.
- 20VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangAnother tired, witless and potentially lucrative attempt to spin an exhausted buddy-cop template into action-comedy gold.
- 12New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithTo call Ride Along 2 rubbish is unfair to rubbish, which at some point had a purpose.