Product Description

Two narcotics officers lead a task force to bring down a drug kingpin bent on controlling Miami's drug flow.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 9-DEC-2003
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12256 in DVD
• Brand: SMITH,WILL
• Released on: 2003-12-09
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Formats: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 147 minutes

Amazon.com
No one goes to a movie directed by Michael Bay for delicacy and grace; you go because Michael Bay (Armageddon, The Rock) knows how to make your bones rattle during a high-speed chase when a car flips over, spins through the air, and smacks another car with a visceral crunch. Bad Boys II fulfills this expectation and then some. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence may be mere puppets amid all this burning rubber and shrieking metal, but they actually provide a human core to the endless cascade of car wrecks and gunfights. Their easy rapport makes their personal problems--a running joke is Lawrence's attempts at anger management--as engaging as the sheer visual hullabaloo of bullets and explosions. The plot is recycled nonsense about drug lords and dead bodies being used to smuggle drugs, but orchestration of violence is symphonic. If that's your thing, then this is for you. --Bret Fetzer

DVD features
It's appropriate for a Michael Bay-Jerry Bruckheimer film that the Bad Boys II DVD is a visual and aural spectacle. The picture is bright and vivid, and the soundtrack explosive and muscular (even without a DTS option--maybe there'll be a Superbit later). There's no Bay commentary track as he did for the original film, but he does appear in the disc 2 featurettes on stunts and visual effects describing the use of real props (check out the "car flipper" apparatus), CGI, and camera positioning ("The theory of this car chase is to put cameras where cameramen would be killed doing these shots.").

Also filling out disc 2 are the in-depth scene deconstructions, which take six key scenes and allow you to view the sequence as it appeared in the film (a convenient touch), watch on-set footage, see the storyboards, and read the script (yes, there was a script). The 19 "production diaries" may sound like text notes, but they offer even more on-set footage and factoids. The seven deleted scenes are all pretty short and none aren't watchable, but it's hard to imagine needing to add any extra time to this 147-minute film. --David Horiuchi

From The New Yorker
Action porn. The producer Jerry Bruckheimer and the director Michael Bay's buddy-cop destructorama has all the editing beats of a sex film. A few lines of dialogue (delivered, for the most part, with fake enthusiasm by Will Smith and Martin Lawrence) followed by bursting gunfire, theatrical chases, and the inevitable big-bang ending. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

A great popcorn flick
Being such a fan of the first movie with its comic timing, excellent direction that Michael always brings (Though Pearl Harbor was crap) and a great score (yet is sounds suspiciously like Speed's Hmmmmmm) anyway...i was surprised to find that I loved the second one even more...and the freeway chase scene rivals The Matrix Reloaded (Yes I said it!!) I think everything was better because Will Smith had more time to work on his comic/action skills between these films, and Michael definetly knows how to play to HIS audience as does Jerry Bruckhiemer. And the camera work in this film was turned up to 11! the 360 degree shooting scene going from room to room through bullet shots! GENIOUS! I definetly can see this film spawning at least one more sequel and is the Letha Weapon of our generation....with lots more blood and a more hardcore style of comedy.

A Great Action Movie That I Am Very Pleased In Watching!!!
... Well I finally got to see Bad Boys 2 a few weeks ago and I was very pleased. I can't wait for the dvd to come out.

The movie is ACTION packed to say the least. There is action, brief nudity, a lot of cursing, violent and digusting killings, and a lot of drugs. It is not a kid's movie and I was disapointed to see how many people brought their kids with them to see this movie.

Anyway, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence make a great team and yes their jokes were sometimes annoying and dry but not enough to be overshadowed by the really funny scenes. I liked the first Bad Boys film but I really feel that the sequel is much better. I would not be surprised to see a third installment.

If you like action, good special effects and great stunt coordination, this film is for you. I can't wait to watch it again!

Absolute CRAP
This is the worst movie I have ever seen, no exaggeration, and I watch or rent most of the good action films. There is really nothing about Bad Boys II that is worth mentioning, but quite a bit to be disappointed with (and outright offended by) with such great expectations from the first enjoyable film.

This sequel to Bad Boys brought absolutely NONE of the character relationships or interaction over from the first movie. What this movie was, from the first scene onward, just two popular black actors making fools of themselves with some of the worst acting I have ever seen. There is not once scene in this movie that was even remotely believable, the plot is absolutely half-baked, and the language was about as enjoyable as a bee-sting. I actually lost count of the F-bombs, which were inserted completely at random, and if taken out of the script, would have likely left several dozen pages empty.

The rest of the script, filled with G.D., J.C., S__T, N_GG_R, and other "intelligent language" left me really wondering why these two prominent black actors signed on to this steaming pile of crap for a movie. There really, seriously, is NO script in this movie, and hence, no plot whatsoever. Some Russian mobster is trying to get his cash out of the country, while Miami PD and the DA are trying to stop the influx of Ecstasy. That might have been a fairly decent scenario if the writer and director (let alone the actors) had taken it seriously. But since Will and Martin did NOT take the plot or their acting seriously, it was just hard to appreciate the story, what little of it there is amidst all the sex, drug use, and foul language. I am very fond of Will and Martin, loved Bad Boys and Blue Streak, among others, but this was just a horrible, disgusting, offensive piece of filmmaking.

I wouldn't even call it a "popcorn thriller" because so much of the content is offensive. The attempt at humor is so literal that it completely misses the mark. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence had some amazing humorous chemistry in the original, and that writer/director didn't even TRY to bring that back into this sequel. I wasn't looking for car chases, explosions, or corpses getting run over on the freeway. What I was looking forward to was some great comedic acting by these two, and it just wasn't there. It's as if they decided to blow that all off and make a "serious" movie, but then halfway through, realized that humor is kind of a good idea, and tried hard to fill it in. Yuck. I just hated this movie, to be blunt.

I agree with another reviewer here: "How can one call this entertainment? Is entertainment watching people have their brains blown out in slow mo or watching people die four times over? If this is considered entertainment then America's culture is in deep trouble. Bad Boy II has an undeniably thin plot in order to justify horrific acts of brutal violence. Bad Boys II is not even a good action film, it is just mindless shooting and explosions."

I would add, Mr. Smith, YOUR filthy dialog and that of others in Bad Boys II makes up for your so-called stance in your music, many, many times over.