Review: “Daddy’s Home”

Daddy’s Home is an American comedy film that was released in 2015. It stars Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Linda Cardellini, Thomas Haden Church, Bobby Cannavale and Hannibal Buress.

Will Ferrell plays the step-father. He tries to be a good step-father and the children are starting to soften up to him when the biological father shows up. Things immediately start going south as the biological father tries to break the step-dad and the mother up and get the mum back.

My opinion:

WTH!?! I can’t believe people think this is funny. It’s downright painful and silly. Will Ferrell’s character is, to put it bluntly, stupid. The acting was poor, the movie was poorly done. Another thing I don’t get is people calling this a “family comedy”. It’s not. It’s an adult’s comedy. There is several crude jokes and some stuff that is talked about is definitely not fit for kids. The biological dad is a pain in the butt – when the step-dad gets electrocuted and is unconscious briefly, the father gathers everybody around and says that this is a good lesson for them and asks what is the first thing that they should do. A kid says “Call 911”, the sensible thing to do, but nooo. The dad said, no that they had to be calm first. Excuse me, idiot, but they were bloody calm in the first place! And then when the mother gets angry with him about his stupidity and says just to call 911, he says “You’re not being calm”. Come on! No wonder she left you in the blooming first place.

Now, I really, really like Thomas Haden Church. He’s a good actor and I always love his movies, but in this one…ugh! He’s as stupid as the others. I don’t know what went on in the screenwriters heads – they ruin perfectly good moments with longish speeches about emotions, or how or why a person feels the way they do. They overdo the step-dad’s character and how he feels when the kids start accepting him. The competition between the step-dad and the dad over the kids was terribly done – at best. It was painful, stupid, ridiculous. Why is it called a comedy?

They ruined a perfectly good story idea and part way through watching it, my family and I had to turn it off. It was soo bad. The only reason we even finished it was because a member of the family described the ending, so we put it on again purely to watch the ending, which sounded actually funny.

The only parts that were funny out of the whole movie was the part when the biological father first appears. The way they introduce him is hilarious.

The only other funny part was the ending.

But it’s, sadly, it doesn’t redeem the previous 1h 30-something minutes of the film.

This film is one of the weirdest, stupidest, dumbest, the-script-should-have-been-destroyed movies I have ever seen. I think my IQ dropped a few notches while watching it.

My Rating:

1/10 (The only reason I am even giving it a star is for the ending and how the scene where the father first appears).