Synopsis
The story of a mild-mannered radio executive who strives to become the best stepdad ever to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling, freeloading real father arrives, forcing stepdad to compete for the affection of the kids.
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Cast
- Will FerrellBrad Whitaker
- Mark WahlbergDusty Mayron
- Linda CardelliniSara
- Thomas Haden ChurchLeo Holt
- Scarlett EstevezMegan
- Owen VaccaroDylan
- Bobby CannavaleDr. Francisco
- Hannibal BuressGriff
- Bill BurrJerry (Bully's Dad)
- Jamie DenboDoris
Recommendations
- 60
The Telegraph
Lame Ferrell, through some weird freak of his talent, tends to be the best Ferrell, and despite the film’s general mediocrity in most departments – let us swish briskly over everything about the way it looks – his floundering star turn delivers the goods. - 60
Empire
If it all ends in cornball reconciliation, the dumb, fuzzy smile it leaves suggests it’s well earned. - 50
Village Voice
The performers are all skilled enough to make something of this tired material. - 45
TheWrap
Ferrell and Wahlberg are both game, but the material only sporadically lets them let loose and do something truly creative, while poor Cardellini transitions from naggy to unreliable. - 40
The Guardian
It’s by-numbers filmmaking that rarely adds up to anything worth the price of admission. - 40
CineVue
Directed by Sean Anders, the film goes out of its way to contrive its central masculinity crises in ways that quickly settle for lame, lowest common denominator jokes. - 40
Time Out London
Daddy’s Home raises the occasional smile, but it’s not exactly Wahlberg or Ferrell’s finest hour. - 38
Movie Nation
By playing it too safe, Daddy’s Home never finds that comic sweet spot and never rises above, “Well, it’s not awful.”
