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Four days later, Brad is living in his office at work, depressed. Dusty, meanwhile, is overwhelmed by the responsibilities of being a full-time father. When Dusty decides to call it quits and leave on the day of Megan's father-daughter dance, his friend Griff convinces Brad to fight for his family. Finding Dusty at a bar, he tries to get him to come back.
This film has received nearly unanimous negative reviews from critics, but it's done really well at the Box Office . DADDY’S HOME 2 finds family man Brad and Dusty, the father of Brad’s two stepchildren, having to cope with Dusty’s macho father who wants to create friction between the two best buddies during the Christmas holiday. The only pleasure he seems to take is from destroying the morals, friendships and family of every human being around him. He lies to Brad and Dusty to get them to hate each other again.
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The original film wasn't that good to begin with, but it's better than this half-baked attempt at a Christmas movie. This movie opened on my father's birthday, which might have been a good time to see it but I had to work. I finally saw it and had the cinema all to myself on a Friday afternoon. It is about on par with most Christmas dysfunction movies like Christmas Vacation.
In each set of these father-son relationships, the way forward involves forgiveness and trust, two virtues that have been in short supply. And after Kurt manages to manipulatively drive a wedge between Brad and Dusty, they have to relearn how to extend grace to each other, too. If that sounds like a recipe for relational awkwardness, well, we haven’t even gotten started.
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Dusty is a world-traveling black ops agent who exudes alpha masculine cool. In the innocent days of 2015, the movie offers gentle jabs at Brad’s effeminate habits but lands squarely on his side. It is Dusty who needs to grow up and let go of his toxic masculinity. He needs to accept male friendship instead of competition. Recent Hollywood films about families at the holidays will convince you that home is the last place you want to be at Christmas. A Bad Moms Christmas and Daddy’s Home 2 suggest that family is a stew of noxious gender tropes, preening perfectionism, and soul-crushing competition.
But just as Brad starts to find his groove as a father figure, the kids' real dad, Dusty , comes to visit with his sights set on winning back his family. —We took our daughter and, our fault maybe—didn’t get on the right Web site to do a review, first. It was rated PG, and the clips on TV suggested it was funny.
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And Brad and Sarah have added a little one of their own now, too. They’re as opposite as they can be, but Brad and Dusty have put their conflict-filled ways (as seen in 2015’s Daddy’s Home) behind them. Yup, these days, it’s all about being the best “co-dads” possible to their children. Ironically, Daddy’s Home 2 suffers from many of the same problems as Bad Moms Christmas, which could be seen as this movie's spiritual sister. For example, neither sequel was really all that necessary to begin with.
The jokes were bland and dry...you're not going to remember this thing in T-minus one day...a sequel that's not as good as the first movie. For his part, Dusty’s motivations are largely selfish—until near the end of the movie. That’s when he finally and grudgingly realizes that Brad has fatherhood skills and instincts he doesn’t, and that the other man’s attentive patience and gentleness are very good things for the children. …coarse language and vulgar, squirm-worthy humor… If you were thinking “Daddy’s Home” might make a nice movie to take the family to over the holidays, think again. Brad and Dusty's plan is complicated when Dusty's macho father, Kurt, a former astronaut and still a ladies' man, suddenly shows up for Christmas.
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Meanwhile, Brad’s ultra-affectionate, emotional dad, Don, shows up to celebrate Christmas, but without Brad’s mother. DADDY’S HOME stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as a stepfather and biological father fighting to gain the love of their two children. It’s easy to forgive a lot of flaws in a comedy as long as it makes you laugh.
It plays it surprisingly safe for the most part and it will be hard to seperate the two films in my mind a few years down the track I suspect. If you liked the first one, you'll probably like the second. There are a ton of cheap gags and Will Ferrell gets in situations that should have left him hospitalized constantly.
The second collaboration between Ferrell and Wahlberg following the 2010 film The Other Guys, principal photography began on November 17, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The film was released on December 25, 2015, by Paramount Pictures and grossed $242 million worldwide, becoming Ferrell's highest-grossing live-action film. It has a 30% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which criticizes the lack of funny ideas and not fully exploring the premise. A sequel, Daddy's Home 2, was released on November 10, 2017. Resident Evil 4 set benchmarks back in 2005 on the Gamecube, but with the 2023 remake coming soon, we've pitted both of them head to head for a graphics comparison. From the opening village scene, to Dr. Salvador with his chainsaw, and a lot more!
But this “family” film is layered with quite a bit of suggestive and crude content, in addition to a smattering of profanities. The sexual content contained is surprising for a family themed comedy, but relieving at the same time since it’s rated PG-13. There are no sex scenes, but the script has quite a few sexual references, including slang terms for both male and female anatomy. Unfortunately, it gets worse when Brad’s boss shares a little bit about his past escapades, including a one night stand, a topless maid, and a love interest who said her boyfriend was her son in order to get another man. A rhino is briefly seen humping another, and a dog is also seen humping a toy doll. I love Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell chemistry in the first film.
Then, that's where the fun begins with Brad and Dusty's parenting is being criticized by their own fathers with Gibson's tough love parenting vs. Lithgow's sensitive compassion parenting comes to play. —I haven’t seen it and don’t plan to, because it looks terrible. But with that said, people need to read reviews before seeing movies like this. Will Ferrel mostly does movies that are made for adults.
Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Here, it's important to note that the plot problem within this extended family, as evidenced by all these family conflicts, is explicitly resolved by overt acts of love. In effect, characters choose to forgive other characters and express their love for one another.
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