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A Haunted House 2

By Jeffrey Anderson, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 17+

Dumb, unfunny, offensive horror spoof sequel.

Movie R 2014 87 minutes
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age 15+

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A Haunted House 2 - Review

This is a comedy film, that pushes it's humour to it's worst. The film contains offensive language and sexual references (espically from a minor, when reading his sisters diary). This film is not not for the easily offended. You have been warned!
age 2+

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Kids say (8 ):

While A Haunted House made a cursory attempt to get away from the pure spoofing of the Scary Movie series and concentrate more on characters, A HAUNTED HOUSE 2 simply abandons this idea. Instead, we're back to constant sex jokes, jokes about bodily functions and excrement, jokes about race, and a few other tasteless gags. The movie attempts to spoof recent hits The Conjuring, Insidious, Paranormal Activity 4, The Possession, and Sinister but mainly just copies certain scenes and adds in big, dumb doses of slapstick.

The last movie acknowledged the relationship between the couple as they learned to live together, and then Cedric the Entertainer came in and juiced up the third act with some improvised lines. Now Malcolm has quickly jumped into a new relationship, which isn't explored (except to make several "interracial" references), and Cedric's new scenes are far less fresh and not very funny. Mostly, the movie is seriously dumb and just a little depressing.

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