mattkratz

This was a decent sequel to Daddy's Home, as it features the fathers in question as their fathers come to visit. The latter fathers were well cast with John Lithgow and Mel Gibson. This sequel had good moments and laughs throughout the movie and was almost as good as the original, with some of my favorite scenes including the airport scenes, the Sully scene, the talent show scenes, and the nativity Christmastime scene. The core of the original movie's cast returns, which I think was a good thing, and the new additions were also good, and the plot made sense, which was good for a comedy.

** 1/2 out of ****

Expect you usual Will Ferrell role and movie when you see this film, and you will not be disappointed-I guarantee it. It has its moments, my favorites being the dance scene, the basketball game scene, and the motorcycle crash scene, and the airport scene, and the cast works well together, especially Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell, who have decent chemistry in this comedy, and there are some good laughs in the movie, but it could have been a little better. Overall not too bad a family film as Ferrell plays a stepfather who has to handle it when the real father reenters the scene, and I like it that they don't make either Ferrell or Wahlberg a bad guy. You might like it.

** 1/2 out of ****

This is a good movie that might remind you of movies like Rear Window and Disturbia. Emily Blunt plays a recovering alcoholic/divorcee prone to blackouts who rides a train to work every morning and fantasizes about the lives of the people whose houses she passes. She frequently passes one house and witnesses things going on between the couple and becomes suspicious. She witnesses more than she can handle and decides to get involved along with the police. It was a good movie with good what if and good suspense with a good cast as Emily Blunt and Allison Janney and Justin Theroux are good in their roles, and the train passing the house and the police scenes are good.

*** out of ****