- 8
While Smith's self-acknowledged weakness with action sequences is still evident, his gift for profanity-laden comedy more than makes up for it.
—Luke Y. Thompson E!
- 7
...ridiculous fun.
—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times
- 6
While this mash-up doesn't produce results on par with the best of the genres it draws on, it still provides plenty of laughs.
—David Thomas filmcritic.com
- 6
...works as a love letter to film fandom, and, amid the ample violence and genitalia jokes, its strength is its sincerity.
—Karina Longworth LA Weekly
- 6
...works as a love letter to film fandom, and, amid the ample violence and genitalia jokes, its strength is its sincerity.
—Karina Longworth Village Voice
- 5
...a meandering, sloppy hodgepodge of gags strung together by a narrative beset by superfluous subplots.
—Nick Schager Slant Magazine
- 5
...diluted Smith is still better than no Smith at all.
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 5
From time to time, Cop Out offers glimpses of the giddy, goofy delight it might have been.
—A . O. Scott New York Times
- 4
...there's not a whole lot to Cop Out besides watching Kevin Smith pretend, with a crudeness that is simply boring, that he's an action director making a comic thriller about cops versus a Mexican drug gang (yawn).
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 4
A lot of the dialogue is intended as funny, but man, is it lame.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 4
...tends to fall flat on comedy as well as character chemistry.
—Andy Klein Christian Science Monitor
- 4
...foul-mouthed but not funny, bullet-riddled but not exciting, crammed with contrivances that go nowhere. And, perhaps worst of all, it musters up no chemistry between its buddy-cop leads.
—Claudia Puig USA Today
- 4
...his [Smith's] slack direction siphons the energy out of this tongue-in-cheek throwback to ?80s mismatched-buddy comedies.
—Scott Tobias Onion AV Club
- 4
...repeatedly shoots for laughs -- but ends up mostly firing blanks.
—Lou Lumenick New York Post
- 4
...doesn't cop out on talking the talk, but it falls down on the job whenever it comes to walking the walk.
—Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter
- 3
...not once is it funny.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 3
...nothing more than a cheap and uninteresting homage...
—Nick Starkey Premiere
- 3
The stock dismissal "more of the same" has rarely been more accurately applied to a sequel than to The Hangover Part II, which ranks as little more than a faded copy of its predecessor superimposed on a more brightly colored background.
—Andrew Barker Variety