Daddy's Home 2 Review

Daddy's Home 2 is a 2017 American comedy film directed by Sean Anders and written by him and Sean Morris. Again, it stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as two dads, but this time, there are two extra dads played by John Lithgow and Mel Gibson. Of course, John Lithgow's character is like Will Ferrell's except exaggerated and Mel Gibson's is the same for Wahlberg's character. The problem is, Wahlberg's dad wants to teach him that he can't let another man bring up his child by...ruining his life? That's right - this is A Bad Mom's Christmas. Except with men.

Right off the bat, let me just tell you what "hilarious" material Daddy's Home 2 covers: being attacked by wolves, divorce, incest, being gay, the "friend zone." All famous comedy tropes. At the beginning of this film, I thought it was going to be a fairly innocuous film which was pretty unremarkable and boring, but I fell out of love with it as soon as Mel Gibson's character started making jokes about dead hookers and telling young children to "put a mistletoe over someone's head, kiss them, and then slap their ass."

This is the worst comedy of the year by a long shot. Not only is the actual construction of the film bad, but the script is hopelessly offensive. The writers are asking you to identify with a man (who is supposedly the source of most of the comedy in the film) who is only in it to turn people against each other, make horrible sexist jokes, and tell people to "be a man," which in his books means shooting turkeys and punching people.

The only redeeming thing about this film is that the actors are trying. I don't know why they're trying, and I don't know why they agreed to be in this horror-show of a film, but they are trying.

There isn't even a reason to talk about Daddy's Home 2. All  I can hope is that nobody will see this film, nobody will talk about it, and the whole Daddy's Home franchise will just disappear into history. There's a moment in the film in which Will Ferrell's character tells a group of people "we go to the cinema together, to laugh," but I can promise you that not a single person who goes to see this film with you will laugh. I hated it.

Score: E