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I liked the first film, because I found it likable entertainment, but this is just crude, silly, and watered-down (PG-13? how typical) entertainment that involves the further embarrassment of the gang of nerds, led by Carradine, as they vacation on an island resort and become the butt end of a lot of practical jokes by some island studs who get all the women.
There's a sequence where the nerds find themselves in front of an audience, standing around in underwear, that finally made me realize the comedy was going nowhere but downwards.
It's very juvenile and relies entirely on poopy humor for laughs. One of the characters is a big rip-off of John Belushi from "Animal House," and he burps with his next-door neighbor on the island.
I liked the original, and this film is adequate for a "lazy Sunday," but I don't recommend it as a rental. Don't pay to see it. Wait for it on TV--but only if you liked the original.
And if you never saw the original, don't see this first. You may never want to watch the first one ever again.
2/5 stars.
P.S. I consider the IMDb rating of 3.9 stars a bit of a "bandwagon jump." A lot of people who voted probably didn't hate the movie enough to give it such a low rating. I'd probably rate it in the area of 4.6 - 4.9, because it's not completely terrible.
John Ulmer
score /10
MovieAddict2016 10 March 2004
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