(And by the way, for a rental property, there’s an insane amount of Christmas decorations on hand.) Kurt tries to poison Brad and Dusty’s “co-dad” relationship. Brad falls down a lot and gets hit in the head with various decorations. So Kurt decides to take the extended family up to a snowy mountain cabin for the holidays.Ĭalling what ensues “hijinks” would be an insult to hijinks. The kids adore Don and his corny jokes, but don’t know what to make of Kurt, who rarely appears and isn’t remotely warm. Since what this story clearly needed was more characters, we get a Christmas drop-in from two surprise visitors: Dusty’s dad Kurt (Mel Gibson), a womanizing former astronaut, and Brad’s father Don (John Lithgow), a retired mail carrier and chatterbox. Watch Video: Mel Gibson Is Mark Wahlberg's Womanizing Dad in 'Daddy's Home 2' Trailer Their two kids, Megan (Scarlett Estevez, “Lucifer”) and Dylan (Owen Vaccaro, “Fun Mom Dinner”) are now being raised by Sara and her second husband Brad (Will Ferrell), with plenty of intervention from Dusty, who has gone on to marry Karen (model Alessandra Ambrosio), who has a daughter, Adrianna (Adriana Costine, “The Hollars”), with her previous husband Roger (John Cena), who hates Dusty. But for those keeping score: Dusty (Wahlberg) used to be married to Sara (Linda Cardellini). Like the first “Daddy’s Home,” the movie addresses the nature of combined families and the hazards of step-parenting, but it constantly does so in a way that makes “Full House” seem like a Frederick Wiseman documentary. I laughed a total of three times during this witless trudge as it went through its predetermined part-two paces - gotta make the friends into enemies again so they can become friends all over again - and found myself wishing I was re-watching “A Bad Moms Christmas,” another sequel with a very similar premise that nonetheless mines far more mirth and meaning from its sitcom set-up. It’s a hilarious bit of self-parody and it makes you wish you could watch that film instead.Somewhere, there’s a parallel universe where the Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg movie that became a series is their 2010 collaboration “The Other Guys” - and in the words of Tina Fey, “I want to go to there,” if only to be spared any future sequels like “Daddy’s Home 2,” a painfully unfunny follow-up to the painfully unfunny 2015 movie. The film’s best moment, though, comes later: the families go to see a fictional action movie headlined by a cameoing star. Saving the day is Ferrell, who gamely flings himself into all kinds of slapstick. It’s an oddly jarring comic turn from a man who once did this stuff with his eyes closed. In truth, his acting is Gibraltar-like too: glowering, rock-like, as chaos reigns. ‘It looks as if he’s been chiselled from Gibraltar itself,’ gasps Ferrell of Gibson as the clans head off for a shared Christmas. The set-up has the pair of younger men sharing dad duties for a posse of mischievous scamps – if you haven’t seen ‘Daddy’s Home’, prepare not to know who any of them are – until Gibson’s twinkly he-devil, Kurt, flies in to bring the arrangement crashing down. Meanwhile, John Lithgow is the touchy-feely father to Will Ferrell’s wimpy Brad, who’s still happily married to Dusty’s ex (Linda Cardellini) and now has a baby of his own. A seasonal turkey, ‘Daddy’s Home 2’ sees him unleash a monster as the alpha dad of Mark Walhberg’s rough-hewn Dusty. It’s hard to know if this clunky comedy is part of Mel Gibson’s redemption arc or some strange new form of karmic retribution.
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