Foul, filthy, adults only — these aren’t the words you generally associate with the Christmas season, but this year, “Bad Santa 2” is going to bring plenty of raunch to the holiday season. Billy Bob Thornton is back as the irascible titular character, but with with all-new series of hijinks that will certainly find him landing in all kinds of trouble.
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Directed by Mark Waters (“Mean Girls“) and co-starring Christina Hendricks, Kathy Bates, and Tony Cox, this time around Willie is roped into a job that will see him work with his mother — who is arguably a tougher nut than he is — and join a plan to rob a charity. Again, the movie is called “Bad Santa 2.” And the aim seems to be upping the nastiness from the first movie. Here’s the official synopsis:
BAD SANTA 2 returns Academy Award®-winner BILLY BOB THORNTON to the screen as America’s favorite anti-hero, Willie Soke. Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus (TONY COX), to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is ‘the kid’ — chubby and cheery Thurman Merman (BRETT KELLY), a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out Willie’s sliver of humanity.
Mommy issues arise when the pair are joined by Academy Award®, Golden Globe and Emmy-winner KATHY BATES, as Willie’s horror story of a mother, Sunny Soke. A super butch super bitch, Sunny raises the bar for the gang’s ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior. Willie is further burdened by lusting after the curvaceous and prim Diane, played by Emmy Award-nominee CHRISTINA HENDRICKS, the charity director with a heart of gold and libido of steel.
“Bad Santa 2” opens on November 23rd.