It’s a creaky, 00s sitcom expanded to a movie, the actors almost waiting for studio laughter to follow their labored jokes.

A perfunctory sequel with an even duller story.

Like John Cena and Meredith Hagner’s characters, this movie's shrill sense of humor barrels into our viewing lives again, begging for our attention and to be seen as cute. Now we have something that’s even worse and more testing than “Vacation Friends.”

Tarver’s narrative rhetorically cannot accomplish its goal of being appealing. The timing needs improvement, the characters require some more space to develop, and the emotional impact is seldom present.