Whatever dangerous edge 2018’s “A Simple Favor” had is giddily tossed aside for “Another Simple Favor,” a goofy acceptance that bringing these two ladies back for another round of cat lioness and mouse games was never going to be “logical.”

The killer thriller about the mysterious, rich and beautiful changeling Emily (Blake Lively) and her envious, admiring and gullible new “friend” Stephanie (Anna Kendrick) morphs into a farce about an absurd “reunion” arranged by the acquisative social-climber/killer Stephanie outed, outsmarted and put in prison in the first film.

“Another” is a jokey, wisecracking comedy with just the occasional murder, a movie of “true crime” podcasts, a best-seller that isn’t and endless extravagant costume changes — Blake Lively’s “brand” — set against the glories of the gorgeous Italian island of Capri.

Ah, what the hell? It’s almost summer, right? Here’s your “beach read” movie of the season, served up on Amazon because who’d have the patience to sit through this in a multiplex?

A couple of credited screenwriters and our stars keep the banter slicing and sassy and “Simple Favor/Bridesmaids” director Paul Feig guides us from laughs to laughable to ludricrously long in a dramedy that outstays its welcome, and then some.

Single-mom Stephanie got a popular podcast and a book out of that near-death experience with Emily. But when we catch up with her, the book-tour is almost-going-bust. A public reading and book-signing is the perfect place for the woman she knew as “Emily,” but whose real name was “Hope,” a cunning, marry-for-money black widow with a twin named “Faith,” to show up.

“Prison?” Her latest sugar daddy got her out. Hard feelings? Nooo. Not even about the book.

“I feel like you left out all the good parts!”

A little zippy and very public repartee, with a few f-bombs and c-words thrown in because that’s as “edgy” as this mess gets, and Stephanie agrees to be maid of honor for “the woman who tried to murder you.”

One crowded private jet flight to Capri later, Stephanie realizes Emily’s marrying not just Dante (Michele Morrone) and not just money, but into the mob. And with a rival mob in the ceremony, along with a venomous mother of the groom (Elena Sofia Ricci), the ex (Henry Golding) Emily/Hope tried to kill as a drunken, embittered wedding guest, a hapless FBI agent (Taylor Ortega) and the mad mother (Elizabeth Perkins) and sketchy aunt (Allison Janney) of the bride in attendance, things are pretty much guaranteed to turn messy and even bloody.

The comedy is supposed to spin out of a lot of situations and characters, but mainly plucky little Anna Kendrick’s playing of a mousy fish out of water, casually insulted by the insensate rich, under suspicion by many as Emily’s “stalker” and a murder suspect in her own right.

“Crime’s your kink!”

Not to worry. These are the ITALIAN police we’re talking about here.

But Kendrick can land only so many zingers on her own, and while supporting players Janney, Perkins and Alex Newell (playing Stephanie’s literary agent) grasp for giggles, they evaporate like bubbles in wine that’s rapidly going flat.

The picture devolves into random rants, a masturbatory murder in a shower and scene after scene after scene of gorgeous Blake Lively swanning around in the gorgeous costumes of Renee Ehrlich Kalfus.

And whatever interest — and laughs (those HATS) — that holds isn’t enough to distract us from guessing plot twists a dozen scenes in advance or from giggling at how Feig and screenwriters Jessica Sharzer and Laeta Kalogridis stumble through a “How do we END this mess?” debate, one which Feig clumsily slaps on the screen without bothering to edit.

Rating: R, violence, some nudity, almost constant profanity

Cast: Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick, Alex Newell, Michele Morrone, Taylor Ortega, Lorenzo de Moor,
Elena Sofia Ricci, Allison Janney and Henry Golding.

Credits: Directed by Paul Feig, scripted by Jessica Sharzer and Laeta Kalogridis, based on characters created by Darcey Bell. A Lionsgate/MGM release on Amazon Prime.

Running time: 2:02