It's hard for me to look at movies seperately when they are sequels. I always want to see the all picture and tend to judge the whoe franchise by it's overall quality. Normally, I won't see a film, if I'm not prepared to see it's sequel too, but for this pair of dark comedies, my advice is check out The Whole Nine Yards, but
skip the tenth yard.The first movie is dark, witty, very funny. A lot of sophisticated humor mixed in with it's moments of slapstick. The second movie is just as dark and at times witty, but the plot makes no sense and it fails at ever being funny. This is a case of sequels gone bad. The first one made so much money, that they had to jump in and try to make too much out of it. In the end the sequel has the same cast of characters, but it feels much more forced and the humor too dependent upon what happened in the first movie.