- Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston in Horrible Bosses 2
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Cheap and increasingly desperate—just after Bateman acquiesces to Aniston, she says he’s free to defecate on her during sex. Later it’s revealed that Aniston sodomizes Bateman in the throes of passion. Where comic filmmakers once looked to TV, radio, and popular music for cultural references, the writers of Horrible Bosses 2 seem to have brainstormed ideas while bingeing on Internet fetish porn. The movie seems to take place in a world where everyone is just one step away from being degraded or degrading somebody else. In the opening scene, Dale appears to masturbate Kurt on national TV as the result of an inappropriate camera setup, and all three friends employ a portmanteau that sounds exactly like a terrible racial slur. Later on the CEO’s son unleashes a storm of ugly Asian “jokes” at his Chinese maid (which the filmmakers invite us to laugh at in the same manner as Aniston’s allusions to sexual degradation), who then retaliates by sticking his electric toothbrush up her ass when he isn’t looking—typical of the filmmakers’ mercenary approach to humor, we watch the guy brush his teeth a few seconds afterwards.
- Ghosts of Empire Prairie
