Daddy's Home (2015)
3/10
The parenting thing
7 April 2016
Plot premises such as we have in Daddy's Home usually are reserved for more serious type films, father and stepfather rivalry for the affections of the kids. I also can't think of a stepfather in real life like Will Ferrall who just let's his wife's former husband move right on in.

Back in the day Linda Cardellini was really taken by bad boy Mark Wahlberg who is still something of an overage kid. And I'm sure the sex was great. But after two kids come and all the issues with them that inevitably occurred it's Wahlberg who decides he's really not cut out for the parenting thing.

But after Ferrall lets Wahlberg stay with them it's like Cardellini's kids with Wahlberg have two competing dads. And Ferrall's losing ground.

The whole thing is just dumb and juvenile. Wahlberg's hunkiness and Ferrall's comic talents are sadly wasted. When a stray dog that Wahlberg names Tumor because he grows on you is the best laugh in the film you know you've got trouble.
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