The Expendables 2

Rated: R

Running time: 1 hour 43 minutes

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam Hemsworth, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger

This movie was fun. The action was almost non-stop, the dialogue was campy and the humor was an inside joke for everyone who ever went to an 80’s action flick.

Plot? I guess you could say there was a plot, but it wasn’t important or even necessary to the movie. JCVD is the bad guy, he’s played one before and he did a good job on this one too. Jet Li was only in the first few minutes of the movie and Liam Hemsworth (Thor for all of you super-hero movie watchers) is the new kid on the block, but he is obviously to clean cut and young to hang around this group for long. For the most part the old dudes handle the guns and the younger generation gets to do most of the hand-to-hand combat.

Most of the humor revolves around Chuck Norris and his appearances. There is of course the requisite snappy banter between cohorts that gets a few laughs out of the audience. But this movie is mainly about action and it has that by plane load. But even in the action sequences, the movie doesn’t take itself too seriously. The good guys are the only ones that can shoot straight, of course. At least they do run out of bullets, but only when it creates an opportunity to be saved by some type of miracle, or Chuck Norris.

Bottom line is this, if you liked the 1^st movie, you’ll like this one even better. If you didn’t see the first one, don’t worry about it, go see this one anyway.