A fun house of a violent sequel nobody should miss.

Bob Odenkirk’s Hutch is probably somebody Mark Wahlberg’s family man assassin should have talked to before succumbing to the idiocy and cliches of “The Family Plan.” He’s a family man, whose former life as a government assassin comes back to him, and even revitalizes the energy in his father David (Christopher Lloyd) and adoptive brother Harry (RZA). The original movie was entertaining in its attempts to take an ordinary guy and make him worthy of being in the “John Wick” universe. Remember, David Leitch and Kelly McCormick are producers and David Kolstad is the writer.

Thinking back to such bad R-rated comedy sequels like “Horrible Bosses 2,” “A Bad Moms Christmas,” and “Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard,” I was a bit skeptical about how “Nobody 2” would play out. I’ve also forgotten how “Deadpool 2” and “Deadpool & Wolverine” were able to broaden the anti-hero’s horizons and charm and tickle us along the way, so I should kick myself for that. Or maybe Hutch could kick me for that, because this sequel is surprisingly fun.

Hutch has been fighting assassins and being late to dinner so much, that his wife (Connie Nielsen) has developed the one thing that wives posses when their husbands are too busy at work: cynicism. He decides to make up for loss time by taking his family-which also includes his dad, his son Brady (Gage Munroe) and daughter Sammy (Paisley Cadorath)-to his childhood vacation. No, it’s not Wally World. They travel to Plummerville. Wherever that is. But judging by the area and rivers, I think it takes place in South Carolina.

But little does Hutch know is that this place is the perfect spot for bootleggers, guns, and dirty cops (Colin Hanks plays the sheriff), and it’s now controlled by the criminal mastermind Lendina (Sharon Stone, the one and only). So, it’s time to bring out the fists, guns, brother, and father.

I’ve read somewhere that the father’s stress gets passed down to the son. I always thought it was the mother who was stressed, because she does tend to be hurried. But then I also realized that the family man must put food on the table. So, it would make sense. A small element in “Nobody 2” regards Brady taking after his father’s violence, which Hutch tells his boy that he wants him to be better than him.

“Nobody 2,” now directed by Indonesian filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto, has more action than comedy, which is too bad considering the whimsy the first movie was able to conceive. But there are some good laughs, and there’s a lot of entertaining fight scenes, including a violent water park trap that Macauley Culkin had nothing to do with. Not even Sylvester Stallone. Before we get to all that, there’s an arcade fight scene that plays to the tune of The Offspring’s “Come Out and Play,” and turns me on like the chainsaw on the plane scene in “Fight or Flight,” which played to the tune of Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up.” Fight scenes, as brilliantly choreographed as they are, need the right soundtrack to represent the energy and attitude.

I like the way Odenkirk keeps his timing and attitude, while Nielsen does a good job overcoming whatever cynicism the movie tries to throw at her, and Stone has some snappy comebacks as the villain who underestimates the man of the hour. I’ll take these guys over Wahlberg, Michelle Monaghan, and Ciaran Hinds in “The Family Plan” any day of the week, and I think those people need to learn a thing or two from the “Nobody 2” stars.

I almost forgot to mention that this sequel takes place at the beginning of summer vacation. But regardless, it definitely works as a late summer movie. And I’m about to go on vacation soon. Hopefully without assassins in the mix. Just my nephew running around and my sister’s dogs barking at sea creatures.