‘Daddy’s Home 2’ Trailer: A Christmas Comedy At Maximum Volume
The newDaddy’s Home 2trailer makes two things immediately clear. First, this is very much a holiday movie, a comedy that leans heavily into its Christmas iconography and looks to attract families who want to sit in silence and not talk to each other for a few hours. Second, this movie looks loud. Seriously. LikeTransformersloud. Everything in this trailer is pitched to 11 and I’m pretty sure it broke my old man ear drums.
Daddy’s Home 2is the sequel 2015’sDaddy’s Home, which followed a father and a step-father (Will FerrellandMark Wahlberg) competing for the affection of their children. In the follow-up, both oftheirfathers, played byJon LithgowandMel Gibson, enter the picture. Christmas shenanigans ensue. People fall down a whole lot. Bad advice is given. More than one car is destroyed. Wolves enter the picture for some reason. John Cena is there for a moment.
Daddy’s Home 2 Trailer
There’s no getting around it:Daddy’s Home 2is not a movie made for me. Clearly. It’s obviously aiming low and young (lower and younger than the first movie, even) and the whole experience looks like a cinematic migraine. But there’s also a place for loud, somewhat obnoxious family comedies like this – I know I made my mother suffer through her fair share of lowbrow family comedies when I was a child. It makes me weirdly happy to know that this ritual lives on in 2017 as a test of how much parents love their kids. What movies will you endure to make your kids happy?Daddy’s Home 2is here to help you find out!
And while I’m not ready to watch Mel Gibson in just about anything at the moment, it’s worth applauding the casting of Lithgow as Ferrell’s sensitive and warm-hearted father. It’s an inspired pairing and Lithgow is a naturally gifted comedian. He almost makes that pee joke work!
Daddy’s Home 2is directed bySean Andersand opens onNovember 10, 2017. Here’s the official synopsis:
