Red 2 ***

Dean Parisot directed this Action comedy. Watch Preview. Cast: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung Hun Lee, Brian Cox, Neal McDonough. Rated PG-13 for pervasive action and violence including frenetic gunplay, and for some language and drug material. Running time is one hour and forty-six minutes.

A retired black-ops CIA agent (Willis) reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

If you liked the first RED you should find this sequel entertainingly acceptable. While there's plenty of action, none of it is gross-out quality and there's more than enough comedy for several laugh-out-loud scenes, making it a perfect couple's film. Production values are very good and it's virtually impossible to go wrong with a cast with this much talent. I personally found the film overly long by at least fifteen minutes, but not insufferably so. This is just the thing for this time of year, a cool theatre and plenty of laughs.

There are no additional scenes once the final credits begin. Action films are always best on the largest possible screen. Theatres/Times.