Although I like some Adam Sandler movies and performances, much of the time he just goes through the motions with stories that scream formula, insanely sexy actresses who pretend to love him and just enough human interest to keep things mildly interesting.  This is yet another one of those times, in a Netflix sequel to a Netflix movie that wasn’t very good to start.

Jeremy Garelick’s film finds amateur-turned-professional gumshoes Nick and Audrey Spitz (Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston) invited to a friend’s lavish wedding and stumbling into a kidnapping plot that inevitably leads to the title scenario.  Once again Nick and Audrey become the most likely suspects and once again they have to clear their names as they rip a large swath of destruction across Paris.  A few characters from the original film return, if one cares.

I didn’t care.  Aside from the high production values, this is filmmaking on a television movie of the week level.  Points are made regarding rich vs. middle class and being prepared vs. flying by the seat of one’s pants, but those are of little significance.  Comedically speaking, the film is almost barren of genuine humor.  Nick and Audrey bicker like an old married couple, which is the joke; few old married couples are as starry as these two.  The violence, when it inevitably occurs, is played for laughs, which never come.  The whole enterprise is more painful than entertaining, but at least it lasts less than an hour-and-a-half.  Beware.  ☆ 1/2.  7 June 2023.