Review of Good Burger 2

Welcome to Good Burger, home of the...well most viewers should probably know the rest of it by now. Scheming independent businessman and supposedly super successful entrepreneur Dexter Reed has hit rock bottom; in desperation (which could accurately describe most of the movie's gags) he must turn to best buddy and simpleton Ed, who's now running the flagship Good Burger restaurant. Unfortunately Dex's overambitious nature along with Ed's gullibility puts the entire restaurant chain in jeopardy. Some forced cameos here and there, in-jokes, the expected nostalgia, but there's no momentum or comedic spark, no inspired ideas, instead it's just a lot of actors who stand around chitchatting as they try their best to make something out of nothing...problem is they still end up with nothing. Chronic goofball Mitchell and underutilized straight man Thompson are their usual, likable selves, but their long-awaited reunion doesn't prove efficacious in elevating such worn-out material. Did a sequel to a movie based on a kid's television show sketch really need to be made twenty-six years later? *½