Daddy's Home 2 may look like a family-friendly holiday-themed film from the ads, but many parents will find it inappropriate for younger kids. It has lots of sexual content and iffy messages about sex and gender roles: Mel Gibson's character is presented as a "stud" who effortlessly attracts women half or even a third of his age; they seem happy to have no-strings-attached sex with him. Viewers also hear about him bedding two women at once ("that went into extra innings," he leers to his grandson). A young boy is teased frequently for his crush on a girl; a kiss he plants on a different girl later is presented as a win for him, but no attention is paid to her feelings about the kiss. In general, female characters are given short shrift compared to male ones. Violence is played for laughs but is surprisingly strong: A chainsaw almost decapitates a man, snow tubers cartwheel down a mountain, and a young girl accidentally shoots her grandpa in the shoulder before killing two wild turkeys (offscreen). A scene in which two young girls get drunk on stolen eggnog is also presented comically; there are no consequences for their actions. Language includes "ass," "bitch," "damn," and more, plus insults that imply that the (male) recipients are weak or unmasculine ("candy ass," "ladies," etc.). Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, and John Lithgow co-star alongside Gibson.
The film is directed by Sean Anders, director, actor, screenwriter and American film producer who has worked most of the time in comedy films. He began his career in 2005, when he directed, co-wrote and starred with Greg Behrendt and Kent Voss in the comedy feature "Never Been Thawed" (2005). The film was well received by the public and critics. His next work was the feature film Sex Drive (2007), a romantic and adventure film starring Josh Zuckerman, Clark Duke and Amanda Crew. After this work, Anders concentrated on the writing of scripts, is that of the movie She out of my league (2010), a romantic comedy about a normal boy that does not usually succeed with women, and that one day against all odds , a stunning girl shows interest in him. He was also in charge of the screenplay for Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), a successful comedy with sci-fi reds that was starring John Cusack. And he also wrote the script for the family comedy Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), a film starring Jim Carrey and directed by Mark S. Waters. Already in 2012, Anders returned to the direction with the comedy That's My Boy (2012), a film about a man who tries to control the imminent wedding of his son and for it he moves to live with him and his girlfriend. The film featured a cast led by Andy Samberg, Adam Sandler and Leighton Meester. After this work Anders co-wrote with Steve Faber and Bob Fisher the screenplay for We're the Millers (2013), a comedy road movie about a marijuana dealer who creates a fictitious family to pass a large shipment of drugs from Mexico to U.S. The film, which starred Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston, became a resounding blockbuster and received numerous awards and nominations in all kinds of film festivals. They also took part in the elaboration of the screenplay for Dumb and Dumber To (2014), sequel to the films "Dumb and Dumber" (1994) and "Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd" (2003), which was again starred by Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels and also directed by the Farrelly brothers. After these works like scriptwriter, Anders wrote and directed Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), sequel of the successful comedy gamberra carried out by Jason Bateman that counts the adventures of a group of friends who decide to kill their boss. Later directed to the aforementioned "Daddy's Home" (2015), a comedy of family entanglements with gates that had a great success at the box office reaching a total of 240 million dollars around the world.
WHAT'S THE STORY? The sequel to 2015's co-parenting comedy Daddy's Home, reunites the comic team of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, whose characters have laid to rest the rivalry they experienced in the first movie, when Dusty (Wahlberg) appeared to wreak havoc in the life of Brad (Ferrell); Brad's wife/Dusty's ex, Sarah (Linda Cardellini); and Dusty and Sarah's two kids, whom Brad is tenderly step-parenting. Now Dusty and Brad are proud co-dads, operating like a precision machine to get the kids fed, educated, entertained, and nurtured. And it looks like this year, they're even going to get the calm family Christmas the kids have been wishing for. But things get complicated when the family realizes that Dusty's tough-guy father, Kurt (Mel Gibson), and Brad's cuddly dad (John Lithgow) are both paying holiday visits this year. When the whole clan winds up in a rental house for a week, they'll need to set aside their differences and learn to work together -- or risk ruining Christmas for everyone.
MOVIE INFO Rating: PG-13 (for suggestive material and some language) Genre: Comedy Directed By: Sean Anders Written By: Sean Anders, John Morris (XIX) In theaters: November 10, 2017 Runtime: 98 minutes Music: Michael Andrews Studio: Paramount Pictures Cast: Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Linda Cardellini, Mel Gibson, John Lithgow, Scarlett Estevez, Owen Vaccaro, Anastasia Mousis Sanidopoulos, Didi Costine, Marybeth Paul, Susan Garibotto
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