From the second you realize this isn’t just Nobody again, you know it’s going somewhere bigger—and smartly so. Nobody 2 picks up the pieces from the first film’s suburban showdown and lays out a vacation-gone-haywire caper that’s tighter, funnier, and more explosively inventive.

Did you ever take a family vacation as a kid that you still remember with a fondness unlike anything else? I feel like we all have that place we can still revisit in our minds – a time when things seemed perfect and unproblematic. For our favorite assassin, that place is Plummerville, proudly (and hilariously) declares itself “America’s Oldest Waterpark”. He wants to take his family there to create new memories.

Bob Odenkirk’s Hutch Mansell continues to be the man you really don’t want to mess with on a bad day. The story wastes no time: he’s tired, trying to hold together his struggling family, and still paying off ancient debts. A simple family getaway in the midwest waterpark turns into a multi-genre brawl involving drugs, crooked cops, and whoever believed that a whack-a-mole mallet could be lethal. The tone is unapologetically comedic, yet brutal. The filmmakers took everything that worked in the first film and dialed it up just a bit. It’s brilliantly, bonkers entertaining. Sharon Stone is absolutely unhinged in her fabulously violent role supported by Colin Hanks in a role that may make his famous dad either blush or go “atta boy.” Either way, fantastic casting.

While the original Nobody charmed with its grounded violence and “average-dad gone nuclear” premise, Nobody 2 leans into the absurdity with a knowing wink. Hutch didn’t choose this life and promptly proved he’s too charming and competent to stay silent. Like a twisted MacGyver, Hutch uses the waterpark’s tools (duck boats, arcade mallets, fun house mirrors) to take out his opponents in an even more explosive Home Alone-style. The film knows you want over-the-top, and it keeps delivering.

Bob Odenkirk is again the heart of the film, but this time he’s lighter on the guilt-lace and heavier on the swagger—and that works. Hutch is a domestic hero who absolutely loses his mind when provoked, yet you still root for him to get to dinner on time. The family dynamics are heightened, too. Becca (Connie Nielsen) and the kids get into the family business in the best of ways.

In short: Nobody 2 is an upgrade. It retains the invisible-hero charm and the sudden violence of the original, but packs them into a brighter, wider, almost cartoonish playground while keeping Hutch’s humanity front and center. Bob Odenkirk doesn’t just play the unassuming assassin turned suburban dad. This time, he sells his need for a vacation and his unwilling embrace of chaos with equal credibility. A sequel that doesn’t one-up the original for novelty’s sake, but because it’s earned the right to go big and it absolutely does.

Just as the first film left us wanting more, Nobody 2 does the same. We’re in it for the long haul, riding shotgun with Hutch all the way.