Ride Along 2 is a 2016 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Tim Story and written by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi.

The film stars Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Ken Jeong, Benjamin Bratt, Olivia Munn, Bruce McGill and Tika Sumpter.

Two years after the first film, James is with partner Detective Mayfield, busting drug dealer Troy.

James captures Troy in a parking garage, finding on him a flash drive.

Mayfield is hospitalized, and Lt. Brooks sends James to Miami to discover who Troy works for.

He reveals that Pope is the real crook, despite his public image as an entrepreneur working with the new port commissioner, Nuñez.

They use the information to locate a group of shipping trucks that may be carrying Pope's contraband.

Going over what went wrong together in a bar, Maya wonders how Nuñez showed up so fast at the port.

mentions Nuñez is on Pope's payroll, James realizes it was a decoy, and the real contraband is being brought in somewhere else at the port.

Reluctantly, he says that while Ben has gotten him into a lot of trouble since meeting, he has also saved his life, made Angela very happy, and helped him grow into a better man and cop.

Ben and Angela then leave on the boat, but he flies out of it when he hits a wake, amusing James.

[9] On February 18, 2014, it was announced that after the success of the first Ride Along film, Universal was moving forward with its sequel, with Tim Story returning to direct.

[11] Benjamin Bratt joined the film's cast, and Variety stated that this installment would have its two stars traveling to Miami for fun, chaos, and shenanigans.

[19] The first official trailer for Ride Along 2 was released on August 13, 2015, and was attached to screenings of Universal's Straight Outta Compton.

The movie features exclusive unreleased songs from Pitbull, Wahin, DJ Ricky Luna and Major Lazer.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Ride Along 2 presents a cop-comedy sequel whose well-matched stars can't break the law of diminishing returns -- or lock up a script that unabashedly steals from the original.

"[25] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 32 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

[23] Justin Chang of Variety magazine called it "Another tired, witless and potentially lucrative attempt to spin an exhausted buddy-cop template into action-comedy gold.