Bad Boys II

Bad Boys II is a 2003 action comedy film by Michael Bay. It stars Martin Lawrence, Will Smith and Joe Pantoliano. It is a sequel of the 1995 film Bad Boys.

Although a relative financial success, the film received less than enthusiastic reviews from the majority of distinguished film critics. Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers claimed that the film was "...the cinematic equivalent of toxic waste." Noted film critic Roger Ebert vowed that "Everybody involved in this project needs to do some community service." However, there were a few positive notices, particularly from Seattle Post-Intelligencer critic Ellen A. Kim, who wrote that the film was "...an unabashed guilty pleasure."

Trivia

• Scenes from the movie were filmed at the "Bird" house in Delray Beach, Florida. The mansion stood nearly completed and vacant for years before it was purchased. The new owner advertised in Variety for a movie company to use the mansion in a movie and blow it up.
  
  
• Director Michael Bay shut down production for a time because he had to settle a legal matter with his financial advisors.
  
  
• While filming a car stunt on the MacArthur Causeway in Miami, a stunt car went out of control and ran into a couple of street light poles.
  

• In an early version of the script there was a part for English singer/actor Jimmy Nail.
  
  
• The building used for the Spanish Palms Mortuary is actually the milk plant for McArthur Dairy. They added a fake facade that matches the architecture to crash the ambulance through.
  
  
• Henry Rollins has, in this spoken word performances, recounted the circumstances under which he received his part in this film. He showed up for an audition for the roll of Spinner Dunn in Death to Smoochy (2002) unkempt, with a single page torn out of the script and in a really pissed-off mood. He proceeded to shout at Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer after they kept him waiting while they had lunch. He didn't get the part, but this pissed-off act was exactly what they were looking for for this movie and he got the part.
  
  
• While this movie was shooting on one side of Cape Florida State Park on Key Biscayne, 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) was filming on the other side of the park.
  
  
• During the filming of the scenes at Cape Florida State Park the movie crew fenced off one of the main parking lots with a chain-link fence for trailers for 'Will Smith' and 'Martin Lawrence' and a basketball court was erected in their compound.
  
  
• The MacArthur Causeway, the main route to South Beach in Miami, was shut down for several days for filming. This caused literally thousands of people to have to go miles out of their way to get to and from Miami Beach in early August 2002.
  
  
• The first shot of Johnny Tapia, standing in a gazebo on the water's edge and talking on the phone, appears to have been filmed at Vizcaya Gardens in Miami. The gardens are open to the public year round, excepting Christmas.
  
  
• The motion sensors used in Johnny Tapia's Cuban compound were the same ones developed and used by the rouge special forces unit in The Rock (1996) also directed by Michael Bay.
  
  
• In a quick look at the high school yearbook, Mike Lowery's middle name is Eugene.
  
  
• In return for illegally tapping into a phone line, Fletcher asks for floor seats to the Miami Heat vs. the Los Angeles Lakers game. John Salley is a retired professional basketball player who has played for both the Miami Heat and the Lakers.
  
  
• Johnny Tapia's Miami mansion is actually an enormous estate known as "Vizcaya". It was built by industrialist James Deering in the early 20th century as his "winter home". The estate is now a public museum and its gardens are a popular spot for weddings.
  
  
• Marcus's dog, 'Mason' actually belongs to the film's director, Michael Bay. 'Martin Lawrence' was uncomfortable acting around the dog during filming due to the dog's large size.
  
  
• The high school yearbook is from Miami Palmetto Senior High, an actual high school in a Miami suburb.
  
  
• Early previews for the movie credited John Lee Hancock as a screenwriter.
  
  
• About three days before filming Michael Bay suggested that 'Jordi Molla' play Tapia with a Cuban accent, so Cuban-born Yul Vazquez (Reyes) was taped reading all of Jordi Molla's lines in Spanish and English. The character was built in about two days.
  
  
• Mark Mancina was supposed to score the film along with Trevor Rabin, but ended up leaving the project due to "creative differences."
  
  
• The techno tune that's being played in the club at the beginning of the movie is "Stuck In The Middle" by Starecase
  
  
• The two-toned guns Mike Lowrey uses are Glock 17 pistols, while Marcus Burnett's gun is a SIG P226. Throughout the film they repeatedly use the Heckler & Koch UMP .40
  
  
• All that was left of the mansion in Delray beach after filming was the swimming pool.
  
  
• When Marcus shows his badge to the exterminators in order to commandeer some of their equipment so they can get into Tapia's mother's house, if you freeze the picture you can read Marcus' badge clearly. He is a Lieutenant with the Miami PD. In the original Bad Boys (1995), when Marcus holds his badge up to the peephole for Julie to look at, you can see it says "Sergeant", so clearly, in the intervening eight years, Marcus was promoted.
  
  
• The producers had to receive emergency relief of the manatee protection laws from Florida Governor Jeb Bush to hold the high-speed boat chase in the Miami River.
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Michael Bay] the man driving the P.O.S. car that Marcus attempts to confiscate, but Mike tells him to go for a better car.
  
  
• Two different Ferraris were used to make this film, the two models have very little external differences. The car you see most often is the more powerful 575M Maranello, however, Michael Bay's 550 Maranello was used for really daring stunt work.
  
  
• During the freeway chase scene, director Michael Bay attached cameras to a couple of stunt cars and asked the drivers to crash into the falling cars in order to capture never before seen shots.
  
  
• The car chase through the hillside town in Cuba was inspired by a near identical scene in the beginning of Jackie Chan's Ging chaat goo si (1985).
  
  
• Director Michael Bay comments on the DVD that they got through the whole car chase without damaging the Ferrari (in spite of what we saw on film for laughs). He complains that Martin Lawrence struck a concrete barrier with the passenger door in a following scene (an outtake).
  
  
• The car that Will Smith is driving after the mortuary scene is a 2003 Buick Blackhawk concept car.