Beyond the loud slapstick, the movie does have interesting situational humour that makes it a marginal improvement over previous Khan efforts.

This is the cinematic equivalent of junk food -- when you walk in, you know exactly what you're going to get.

Several times in Housefull 2, random characters laugh at their own jokes and sing out: sense of huuuuumour. It pretty much says everything about the film.

The formulaic repetitiveness ... [is] quite tragic because on a good day, Akshay [Kumar], Asin, Riteish [Deshmukh] and Shreyas [Talpade] can be killer comics ...