Any resemblence between Shakespeare and the Polish rom-com franchise “The Taming of the Shrewd” is abandoned altogether for “The Taming of the Shrewd 2,” the sequel to the popular, franctious and almost-bawd rom-com of last year.

So I guess that’s something.

The sequel, a wintry bauble featuring Polish snow, Polish folk musicians and singers and renewed complications keeping our happy couple apart, is polished in every way save for the one that matters the most — the screenplay.

The script is a slapdash load of nonsense that includes a contrived trip to America, a contrived “cuckolded” crisis involving an ambush from our gal Kaska’s old flame “Bob,”contrived kidnappings, liquor smuggling, horse-drawn-sleigh racing and a bear.

There are two couples in trouble here, and in rom-coms, that means mixed-and-rematched “couplings” to make each others’ true loves jealous, a “polyamory” joke and a nude massage to sort of seal the deal and give the picture a TV-MA rating.

I wish I could say it all kind of comes together, but it doesn’t.

Beautiful and fiesty Kaska (Magdalena Lamparska) goes off to America to accept some dubious award she’s been given, and to make an appearance on West Coast TV. Hunky but hapless Patryk (Mikołaj Roznerski) is left behind, wondering if she’ll call, if she’ll renew her acquaintance with “Bob” (Martin Budny) and facing an entire town that feels the newlyweds are in trouble and that he’s being “cuckolded.”

If she comes back in time for the couples sleigh race, maybe it’ll all work out. Maybe not.

Meanwhile, RV drifters/extreme sports couple Wera (Agata Turkot) and Kacper (Piotr Nerlewski) find their never-ending search for slopes to snowboard and waves to surf and kiteboard coming to an abrupt halt when he accepts a steady job.

She storms out in a huff and a puff of raggedly old motor home smoke.

Events transpire that put Wera under Patryk’s roof, and Kacper grabbed by the returning Kaska. She’s furious at what Patryk thinks may have happened and at the fact that he appears to have taken up with another woman.

Concerned relatives intervene to save this couple, “the pride of Podhale,” their winter wonderland village. That’s when the kidnappings begin and the bear makes his entrance.

The cast is pretty all up and down the line and seems skilled enough to make the laugh lines and sight gags land. It’s just that there are so few of them, and virtually none of them take off, much less land.

I wouldn’t have figured a sequel could be as off-key as the original film. But that’s what I get for figuring.

Rating: TV-MA, nudity, profanity

Cast: Magdalena Lamparska, Mikołaj Roznerski, Agata Turkot, Piotr Nerlewski, Tomascz Sapryk and Elzbieta Trzaskos

Credits: Directed by Filip Zylber, scripted by Hanna Węsierska. A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:39