Review of Daddy's Home 2 (2017) by Davidwashere — 11 Dec 2017

**SPOILER ALERT**.

One could argue that it's a very dadarific movie. That person is a fool! Without seeing the first installment of this exciting Daddy's Home universe, Daddy's Home is what one comes to expect from a Will Ferrell movie now-a-days. Loud screaming, impractical prat falls and slapstick that would have killed a man, cheap looking sets and production, and Will Ferrell acting like a man baby. All of which is topped with multiples plots crammed in there without any care of cohesion, and a Christmas movie that is the most cynical and un-Christmasy Christmas movie that ever Christmassed! There is something to merit about this movie though. Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg do have some pretty good chemistry, as does him and John Lithgow, who fully commits to his goofy and naive roll. Mel Gibson is basically playing the devil (fitting casting) who comes in and **** **** up and laughs at the carnage in front of him, which has some reward, although it does wear out once you realize that the only thing that really works about his character is that Mel Gibson is in this roll. Give it to someone else and the daddy of Mark Wahlberg isn't all that special. But if there is a saving grace to this movie, it is the third act. Which...ooooh boy it's a duesy!

**SPOILERS START NOW**.

So Mark Wahlberg is married to a new wife, who had a daughter in a previous marriage to John Cena, a mean and cold-hearted man, something that is hard to buy because while John Cena is a bad ass, I doubt he has a mean bone in his body. Anyways, a major conflict in this movie is that the character, Dylan, has a crush on a cute girl, but he doesn't know what to do. Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, and Mel Gibson has three radically different advice that they share with Dylan. Both of those are important. At the third act, Will Ferrell calls up John Cena to mess with Mark Wahlberg, which causes conflict and thus starts the third act rift where everyone is super bummed. They all try to go back to their individual homes, until a snow storm hits them and they all take a detour at a movie theater. The power goes out and all the families and a crowd of people are stranded in a movie theater and all the conflict that each of the daddies have start to rise, until Dylan decides to make his move and go kiss the girl he has a crush on after Mel Gibson tells him to make his move. However, instead of the girl we think he has a crush on, Dylan ends up kissing his step-sister, smacks her ass, and says "You're welcome" to her! Yeah...that happened! John Cena is like "What the **** and tries to take his daughter out the theater, until Mark Wahlberg steps in and says that he loves his step-daughter, Will Ferrell, his ex-wife, his children, John Lithgow, not Mel Gibson that'll take a while, and John Cena because he created Mark's step-daughter so that mean he has to love John Cena. John Cena's masculinity starts to get in a bunch so he tries to get out of the theater, until Will Ferrell begins to sing the infamous Do They Know It's Christmastime to John Cena! All the family starts to sing, including Mark Wahlberg singing Bono's part that guilt the audience for being privileged.