Review of Daddy's Home (2015) by Bobbylikesmovie — 23 Mar 2017

I saw Daddy’s Home and it was really stupid and yet had a reasonable heart and ambition. But it seriously was one of the worst movies of 2015. The only reason I am reviewing this is because a sequel is releasing in 2017. This needs to stop. So let’s talk about it.

Let’s talk about the things I like.

The Heart and Ambition: It had a good heart and ambition. Someone wanted this to be something heartwarming and memorable. And there are some memorable moments. Despite the end product, you can tell that there was someone in the cast and crew that cared about this movie. Someone wanted to make a good heartwarming movie. In fact, there are even some laughable moments probably from coming this someone. But these good aspects got shrouded through terrible ideas possibly created from a superior other.

Now here is the list of the things I did not like.

The Humor: Humor in movies are fine. If a joke or gag in not funny, it is fine; it does not affect my opinion of the movie. If a joke or gag is funny, then I appreciate the movie. However, if a joke or gag is terribly executed to the point where it becomes annoying, then I do not like it; I despise it. This movie had a lot of jokes and gags that were annoying. It was head achingly annoying. Running gags and annoying jokes take up a majority of this movie and really take away the fun in comical moments in the minority of this movie. This aspect is the main reason why I do not want another movie like this. You are probably reading this because you want to know how was this movie and how will the next movie be. This movie was annoying and for next: do not expect anything funny; just pointless annoying scenes. The Acting: Mark Walberg really tried to bring life to this movie, but he comes off as trying too hard for a movie that is too is annoying and lifeless already. Will Ferrell adds to the infuriating annoyance. The other performances do not add anything. They do things that are at times against their character and do not make any sense. The other characters are usually tied to running gags and pointless scenes. They are basically plot devices. Characters can be plot devices, but this prevents important characters from being fleshed out into interesting and well-bodied characters. In a comedy, all characters don’t need to be fleshed out; a comedy just needs to make people laugh in order to be acceptable. If the movie fails at making people laugh for a majority of the movie (like this one), then there needs to be other redeeming qualities.  But no redeeming qualities are in sight since the acting is flat as a 1-year old can of soda. However, I mainly blame the writer for the poor acting. The Writing: This is a poorly written comedy. The writer does not show his talent in writing. He cannot pace the story well. He writes in pointless annoying scenes that do nothing but merely attempt to make the audience laugh. He appears not to know how to write a good comedy. There is fake and forced conflict. All conflicts are forced in a movie, but if it is obvious to the people that movie’s universe is forced, then the writer failed at bringing something engaging. He only appears to know how to write a meaningless dribble-filled comedy. I may not be a writer; I am just a random person on the internet but the writing is obviously flat. You can still enjoy a movie if it does not have perfect writing. But this movie is not enjoyable in any other medium.

Product Placement: The meaning of this movie is too shove as many products down the viewers’ throats. Now, there is blatant commercial advertising for Ford and other companies. Movies can have product placement. But, if it is very blatantly obvious, then it becomes annoying. And this movie is annoying.

Conclusion:

This movie was annoying, but there were some laughs and there was some heart. I feel like this was only used to make money and place as many advertisements as they can. Their plan goes like this: It does not matter if there is any good writing, acting, or humor: all that matters is to place as many movie stars and celebrities to create enough money and place enough products. Now, a movie can be used to make money. But I believe it is that desire that caused this movie to be so transparent of its flaws and to become evidently annoying. That ideology is killing good movies; maybe Daddy’s Home could have been something special. But Daddy’ Home is flat, uninspired and pointless. You can still enjoy it. But as a random person on the internet: I despise this movie. I only hope that the Daddy’s Home 2 will be slightly better, but I would say do not expect much.