Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
What would a film be like if every single person involved made as little effort as humanly possible?

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
Truly, there is not a single redeeming moment in director Andy Fickman's film. A general flatness and lethargy permeates these reheated proceedings.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 may be forgettable, but it's difficult to truly dislike.

Name : Kevin P. Sullivan / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Far from the worst movie that you'll ever see, but you might leave wondering why you, the people on the screen, or anyone else in the theater even bothered.

Name : Andy Webster / Alias : New York Times
You won't find much offensive in Kevin James's slick, innocuous vehicle Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. You won't find much prompting an emotional reaction in general, so familiar are the jokes and situations.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
This wisp of a plot is just an excuse for James to do his one trick over and over: Bluster, then screw up humiliatingly. Is it never funny? No, it's not never funny. It's just not funny nearly often enough.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
Nobody was expecting much from Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, but did it have to be this unimaginative and lifeless?

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
James tries hard, very hard, to inject the proceedings with slapstick humor, propelling his large body through endless physical contortions in a fruitless effort for laughs.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
A movie whose chuckles (six, I counted) are outnumbered by helicopter shots of the Wynn resort in Las Vegas.

Name : Gary Goldstein / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Although there have been worse sequels - and worse overall movies - make no mistake, that's hardly a recommendation.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
The cinematic equivalent of biting into an old brown banana.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Caddyshack 2. Exorcist 2. Speed 2. To this small sample of the ever-expanding list of wretched movie sequels, add Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, a gobsmackingly witless excuse for entertainment.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
Kevin James keeps falling on his face and colliding with heavy objects, this time in Vegas, in this tacky, numbingly inane sequel.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Maybe Paul Blart isn't spoofing John McClane after all; maybe these movies are actually too stupid to realize what they're imitating.

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
The movie has Andrea Martin, who returns as bossy Aunt Voula, sometimes dispensing her gonzo brand of sexual advice and sometimes confiding her list of bizarre medical curiosities. She alone may be worth the price of admission.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Slate
I'm sure there are knowing smiles of recognition that are reserved here for people raised in traditional Greek families, but it's hard to feel like you're missing any of the jokes when every punch line is practically written out on cue cards.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
In truth, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" is an excruciating grind, just scene after scene of people creating disturbance over tiny matters, fighting over nothing, and making Toula clean up after them.

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Vardalos and Corbett display the relaxed romantic chemistry that made them so endearing to audiences in the first film.

Name : Tim Cogshell / Alias : TheWrap
It's sweet, just like the original movie. It was faint praise then, and it still is.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
It's a big fat Greek dud.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Jones has limited ideas about funny staging. His go-to move is mashing two to 10 people together into an awkward scrum, then cutting to Vardalos or Paris watching with wide-eyed discomfort.

Name : Geoff Berkshire / Alias : Variety
This 14-years-later sequel is every bit as sitcom-ish and saccharine as its predecessor, but considerably less distinctive.

Name : Devan Coggan / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
A tired and unnecessary retread that not even a healthy spritz of Windex can cure.

Name : Mara Reinstein / Alias : Us Weekly
All the plots are blah sitcom material, at best - and there's a reason why Vardalos' CBS spinoff, My Big Fat Greek Life, lasted all of seven episodes back in 2003.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Old jokes and little plot, but the charming original cast almost compensates.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
It's understandable that creator/writer Nia Vardalos would come back for seconds with "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" . but 14 years later, this reunion of cuddly-but-tiresome stereotypes makes you wish she'd left well enough alone.

Name : Joe Dziemianowicz / Alias : New York Daily News
"My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" is like baklava. It's light, sweet and nutty. But after indulging you might ask yourself, "Did I really need that?"

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Vardalos is wonderful, and 88-year-old Michael Constantine casually pockets every scene he's in.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : NPR
It's comforting to break bread in Vardalos' cheery Chicago enclave again, even if you're being served yesterday's dinner out of the microwave.

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Predictable, tired, formulaic, it makes up for its lack of originality with a bigger budget, louder jokes, louder costumes, and louder music.

Name : Kate Lloyd / Alias : Time Out
Feels like you're watching an entire season of Modern Family in fast-forward

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : RogerEbert.com
Gags get piled upon gags with relentless frenzy and results that are overbearing rather than uproarious. You can rely on every character to behave the exactly the same way every time, regardless of the situation, and that way is usually obnoxious.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
With so many warmed-over jokes, you'd think that the delivery would at least be on point. But everything, including the timing, feels off.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : Village Voice
It's a nice movie. Not a good one, or a well-made one, or a smart one, but a nice one.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
What we're left with is something that recalls Crocodile Dundee in L.A. - the misbegotten notion that bringing back characters long past their sell-by date is a good idea.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
Some elements are even broader while a couple, welcomely, are emotionally truer to life. If you appreciated the first movie's sweetness, then you'll likely be charmed enough.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Those who loved the original should at least like the sequel, which remarkably has reunited all of the players from the oversized cast.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Vardalos has created a community of characters and players so likable, it seems almost mean to criticize - like picking on one's own annoying but beloved relatives.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
What once bubbled up from a sincere love of Greek family has now congealed into the all-too-familiar Hollywood tale of milking a cash cow until it cries for mercy.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
It shows us a world where every family problem can be fixed by hugging or buttering garlic bread. There's certainly an audience for that. All others, be warned.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
How about we push back from the table and go home? This may be Vardalos' all-you-can-eat Greek buffet, but you know what? This really is all I can eat.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
Even those who have spent the last 14 years pining for a sequel to "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" - by most accounts, the highest-grossing American romantic comedy - will rue that longing when they experience "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2."

Name : Kate Taylor / Alias : Globe and Mail
Pass the baklava.

Name : Rebecca Keegan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
The sequel is a little like a bear hug from a beloved old relative - the embrace is too tight, the perfume is too strong, but ultimately it still leaves you feeling good inside.

Name : Randy Cordova / Alias : Arizona Republic
The movie wheezes about, with actors offering spit takes (Vardalos) and getting hit in the head with volleyballs (Vardalos again). When those moments don't elicit laughs, you are left with awkward silences that just hang in the air. That happens a lot .

Name : Leah Pickett / Alias : Chicago Reader
This unnecessary sequel reunites most of the cast from the 2002 indie sensation and then lazily recycles its narrative, score, themes, catchphrases, and sight gags almost beat for beat.