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Horrible Bosses 2
Movie

Horrible Bosses 2

2014 • Unknown

Woke Score
3
out of 10

Plot

Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.

Overall Series Review

Horrible Bosses 2 is a crude, low-brow comedy from 2014 that centers on a trio of inept male entrepreneurs attempting a kidnapping scheme for revenge against a wealthy corporate investor who betrayed them. The narrative's focus is on class struggle, pitting the 'little guys' against the corrupt, wealthy elite, and on generating shock humor through explicit and offensive sexual and racial jokes. The morality of the film is entirely relativistic, framing the protagonists' criminal actions as justified revenge against bigger criminals. The film's content largely pre-dates the peak of contemporary identity politics and actively subverts some of its key tropes, such as the 'Girl Boss,' by featuring an over-the-top female sexual predator, which is treated as a source of dark comedy and a male character's victimhood.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics2/10

The plot focuses on a class critique where the wealthy, evil antagonists are white males, and the incompetent protagonists are also white males. The conflict is driven by corporate greed and betrayal, not race or intersectional hierarchy. Some jokes involving race and racial stereotypes are present as crude humor, not as a political lecture on systemic oppression.

Oikophobia2/10

The central theme is a critique of exploitative corporate capitalism, not a deconstruction of Western civilization, family, or national heritage. The protagonists’ desire to start their own small business operates within a traditional aspirational framework, though they are thwarted by a corrupt system.

Feminism1/10

The most prominent female character is a sexual predator who harasses and assaults a male subordinate for shock comedy, completely inverting and subverting the 'Girl Boss' or 'Mary Sue' archetype. Women are generally depicted as immoral or underdeveloped, and there is no messaging promoting career over motherhood or emasculating males in service of female superiority.

LGBTQ+2/10

The humor is extremely raunchy and non-normative, featuring perverse sexual fantasies and jokes. However, this is for crude comedy and shock value, not for promoting sexual ideology, Queer Theory, or deconstructing the nuclear family as an oppressive institution. The narrative maintains a traditional, if crude, heterosexual 'bromance' focus.

Anti-Theism6/10

The film’s entire premise is rooted in moral relativism, where the protagonists’ desperate, criminal act of kidnapping is framed as a justifiable response to corporate injustice and betrayal. The narrative embraces the idea that morality is subjective to power dynamics and situational ethics, but it does not directly express hostility toward organized religion, specifically Christianity.