Article: SMITH, LAWRENCE TEAM UP AGAIN FOR "BAD BOYS II"; MANDY MOORE TRIES HER HAND AT ACTING ONCE AGAIN.(Stars)

Byline: Joan E. Vadeboncoeur Entertainment columnist

Hollywood Rule: Each week of summer must deliver another potential box-office blockbuster.

This Friday, it's the turn of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence to reprise their roles as Miami vice cops in "Bad Boys II." The original film raked in more than $140 million so hopes are high.

In this sequel, the two narcotics detectives have been assigned to a high tech task force which is investigating the flow into Miami of a designer drug. Inadvertently, their work leads them into a major conspiracy involving a vicious kingpin (Jordi Molla), whose ambitions to take over the city's drug trade has ...

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