No stars
So unfortunately, a studio executive got his sexually confused eighteen-year-old nephew to write the screenplay for The Boondock Saints II. The nephew saw the original Boondock Saints when he was twelve and then tried to imitate it from memory while throwing in penis jokes every three minutes. I think he was allowed to pick the soundtrack, too.
The dialogue is painful, riddled with clichés and bad accents. Norman Reedus (Murphey MacManus) and Sean Patrick Flanery (Connor MacManus) try hard, but it’s obvious they know the writing sucks. The dream sequences, flashbacks, the William Dafoe replacement (Julie Benz) and Clifton Collins Jr. (Romeo) were delegated the worst of the dialogue. Many of the plot points simply make no sense (like the conversation between the MacManus brothers and the dead Funny Man) and the rest is predictable.
The Romeo character is a caricature of Mexican-Americans. At least in The Boondock Saints the stereotyping of Irishmen and Italians was done in a way that the Irish and Italians could laugh at.
The worst part is they left it open for a third installment.
At least another cat didn’t die.
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