YMMV / Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

• Audience-Alienating Premise: The first film did well financially, but there certainly wasn't an active fanbase clamoring for a sequel, especially not six years after the first one came out. But the biggest turn-off is the enormous Happy Ending Override where Blart's Love Interest divorces him six days after their wedding and his mother is killed by a milk truck two years later. The first film did play Paul's The Woobie status for laughs, but never to such an incredibly mean spirited degree. For any fans of the first film who genuinely cared for The Protagonist, the startlingly dark beginning can greatly hurt your desire to watch his story continue.
• Critic-Proof: Critics hated the film, but it made back its budget on opening weekend.
• Memetic Mutation: Apparently the film syncs up eerily well to The Dark Side of the Moon.
• Sequelitis: This sequel was given a lambasting by critics. Rotten Tomatoes show a 6% fresh (94% rotten) from 49 reviews, with only three fresh reviews. The first film was far from a critical darling, but even some of Kevin James and Happy Madison's detractors admitted to it being okay. You'll find few of them would argue that point about the second installment.
• Trailer Joke Decay: One of the final scenes has Blart pat a police horse, which kicks him into a parked car (with awful CGI). No doubt this gets constantly played in the trailer and TV spots.

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