It’s a rule well-known by critics and general moviegoers alike that there are some films that really should be left alone. It doesn’t take more than a few minutes of watching Bad Santa 2 before you realize how much the filmmakers ignored that rule with this comedy sequel too, because as much as we all like to make fun of them, sometimes happy endings are the only, and best possible, outcomes for a film. So when the original Bad Santa ended with Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) in the hospital with a girlfriend and even a surrogate kid, it felt strangely perfect for the admittedly awful protagonist.
The inherent problem with making a sequel to a film like that then, with the intent of making it even dirtier and raunchier than its predecessor, is that you effectively have to then take that happy ending away. This means that when we meet Willie again in Bad Santa 2, Lauren Graham’s Sue has left him, he’s even drunker and hornier than in the first film, and has lost yet another one of his dead-end day jobs in Arizona. As he sticks his head in an electric oven to commit suicide, you realize just how inhumane it was to bring this character back in the first place, and you don’t need to look much further than Thornton’s lifeless, lackluster opening narration for that fact to truly hit home.
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