Review of Daddy's Home 2 (2017) by Yoloswag4Doge — 21 Feb 2018

As someone who thoroughly enjoyed the dynamic between Ferral and Walburg in The Other Guys and the first Daddy's Home, I quite enjoyed the first 3/4 of the movie. I laughed a number of times, but I found the over the top, emotional relationship between farrel and his dad rather cringy.

Mel Gibson's performance is kinda hot and cold. He essentially plays the role of an emotionally pent up, contempt prone, booze loving pick up artist, with Walburg being his main source of scorn. Mal talks one of the kids into getting a gun to shoot turkeys, but the kid changes his mind, only for his sister to eagerly pursue the activity instead.

I actually liked this part, because it embraces the reality that some individuals like hunting whereas others don't. If a kid wants to do it, (and know what's entailed), I don't see an issue with the age.

The movie has a lot of slap stick comedy and more over the top CGI moments similar to the last one, (which I loved). The end is what ultimately disappointed me. It got a little nuts, (to me), with the sheer amount of sappy emotional displays, especially among a crowd of people, that just seemed to go on and on.

I would've liked to have seen the characters come to terms with one another in a little more realistic, down to earth fashion. Other than that, I actually thought the plot and comedy mixed really well together.

It reminded me of a Lampoon's Christmas.