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
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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