Daddy's Home 2
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: November 10, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
30
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
8
Negative:
15
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliNov 10, 2017
The similarities between Daddy’s Home 2 and last week’s release, "A Bad Moms Christmas," are striking. Not only are the two films sequels to successful first installments but they follow the similar template of bringing back the most popular elements of the first movie, stirring veteran actors into the mix, and finishing everything off with a big kumbaya moment. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyNov 10, 2017
The good news is that I found the sequel better than the original — the writing sharper, the jokes fresher and smarter, the comic interaction between the lead characters consistently engaging. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshNov 9, 2017
The surreal and silly sequel to the hit 2015 comedy skates on the well-known but still-appealing comic personas of stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg and their zany chemistry. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyNov 9, 2017
Of course, there’s a sort of comfort in familiarity, especially around the traditions of the holidays. But Daddy’s Home 2 never manages to really catch you off guard and crack you up the way the best comedies should. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyNov 9, 2017
Like the passable original, this formulaic comedy can’t stop teasing the possibility of a funnier, smarter movie being made with the exact premise, central conflicts, and stars. Read full review
50
IndieWireDavid EhrlichNov 11, 2017
Holiday movies don’t have to be good, they just have to be comfortable, and by that regrettable standard “Daddy’s Home 2” mostly gets the job done. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTom RussoNov 9, 2017
Returning director Sean Anders strings together mayhem-filled moments that just aren’t the howlers that they’re clearly scripted to be, never mind the fatherly foursome’s chemistry, or the tobacco-stained guffaws Gibson keeps busting out to sell these bits. Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanNov 9, 2017
It arrives at a moment when the crackling voltage of the culture wars — blue state vs. red state, Trump haters vs. Trump lovers — is coursing through every fiber of the nation. This means that a film like Daddy’s Home 2, in its stupido-on-purpose way, can seem almost relevant in its trivial hit-or-miss yocks. Read full review
42
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonNov 9, 2017
Daddy’s Home 2 wants points for exploring the ever-expanding family tree in a Christmas comedy, but it only barely succeeds. Lithgow’s delightful grandpa offers a welcome diversion from the madness, but those moments are as fleeting as the plate of cookies left out for Santa on Christmas Eve. Read full review
40
Total FilmMatthew LeylandNov 22, 2017
Vexingly, Ferrell flaunts his daft genius just enough to avert an entirely shite Christmas. Read full review
40
Time OutPhil de SemlyenNov 9, 2017
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. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 9, 2017
The script is so starved of originality, jokes and slapstick laughs that Burns pushed his actors to deliver lines faster and faster. Wahlberg, always antic on the set with Ferrell, hurtles through his dialogue in a near-slurred blur...It rarely pays off, as the jokes are just lame. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineKeith WatsonNov 9, 2017
The film portrays parenting as the death of manhood, a final surrender to the castrating effects of domesticity. Read full review
30
Screen DailyTim GriersonNov 9, 2017
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are a lot less fun this time around, paired with a fumbling John Lithgow and a stiff Mel Gibson as their overbearing fathers who stop by for the holidays. Read full review
25
The PlaylistWill AshtonNov 10, 2017
A vacuous and generally indifferent effort that lacks even the watered down spark and inspiration of its ho-hum 2015 original...this seasonal comedy sequel is a fruitless, frustrating nothingburger of tired dysfunctional family tropes and conservative-minded family values. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperNov 9, 2017
Much of the “humor” in Daddy’s Home 2 is of questionable taste at best. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubNov 9, 2017
Daddy’s Home 2 is an excessively negative, strained and predictable comedy. Read full review
25
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenNov 9, 2017
A colossal waste of time and the moviegoer’s dollars. That’s the bottom line of Daddy’s Home 2. Read full review
20
EmpireJohn NugentNov 27, 2017
Double the dads, but half the laughter. Read full review
20
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergNov 9, 2017
If “Daddy’s Home” (2015) played like a distant, wayward cousin of “Step Brothers,” Daddy’s Home 2, again directed by Sean Anders, is the sort of relative you might disown. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeNov 9, 2017
It's odd, for a film that ostensibly makes male vulnerability its ultimate goal, how much contempt it has for its most open and loving character. Read full review
20
IGNWilliam BibbianiNov 9, 2017
Daddy’s Home 2 seems like just another cookie-cutter comedy, but its heart is in the wrong place. It’s mean-spirited and half-hearted, and more than that… it’s just not funny. Read full review
20
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeNov 9, 2017
Director Sean Anders (“Horrible Bosses 2”) and his co-writer John Morris (“We’re the Millers”) execute what are supposed to be the laughs with blunt force. The jokes announce themselves with heavy footsteps, and almost none of them land, stranding a talented cast with terrible material that they’re straining to sell. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleDanielle WhiteNov 8, 2017
With all the violence in the world lately, it seems perverse to insert so much male aggression into what is supposed to be a fun holiday movie. When Roger (Cena) roars onto the scene in his very large truck, it’s testosterone overload. Read full review
0
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaNov 9, 2017
This is a toxic, not at all benign film. Read full review
0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzNov 9, 2017
It should not exist, and the fact that it does is a slap in the face of anyone suckered into buying a ticket. Read full review
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