Pjtaylor-96-138044 Review of Daddy's Home 2

Daddy's Home 2 (2017)

Generally inoffensive, but still worse than I could have possibly imagined.

[3/10 · 27 December 2017]

I'll preface this by saying that I haven't seen, nor now have any interest in ever seeing, the first film in this odd and unnecessary choice for a franchise, so the fairly complicated family dynamics on display were somewhat lost on me for a fair while until I'd worked out exactly who was who's daddy, something not quite as easy as you'd think considering that there are seemingly more 'steps' in this family than in the Burj Khalifa itself, but once I'd found my footing - or, rather, simply found out it both didn't really matter and I didn't care enough anymore to worry about it - I could finally sit back and simply not enjoy the debacle that ensued. Between trying to convince us that Mel Gibson is quote 'beautiful', a certain heroic pilot isn't beyond the cameo he curiously makes and generally that every single actor involved isn't much better than this - to the point where they can't have been happy with the work they were producing (unless something went really wrong in the edit), the flimsy flick represents a series of seriously misjudged skits simply screaming "we're trying too hard" while only producing a single 'meh' emoji's worth of a reaction which all amount to an emotional payoff that's technically sound but seriously undercut by its mysteriously musical management and callously cheesy crescendo - an issue actually present throughout the consistently grating and ham-fisted piece. It may be generally inoffensive, but its still actually much worse than I could have possibly imagined. 3/10