Ok so one thing that I have said about movies so far is that it's a great way to escape. I know that you should not escape all the time but sometimes you just need a break from the world.... and it's problems... and it's stress....
So that is what me and one of my Best Friends, Austin, did on Sunday. We decided to make a whole evening with it and went to dinner, and then laughed our heads off to the movie Daddy's Home.
Now, this was the second time that I have seen this movie. Normally this isn't the kind of movie that would pay to see it twice, but we needed the laugh and there wasn't anything much else that was going to do that for us, so off we went.
I thought that this movie was cute, it was cuter the second time around too. I love Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell but they are knows for doing movies that are a bit..... raunchy. I was a little skeptical that I was really going to like this movie cause that is what I kind of expected with these two actors in this movie. It was not that way at all.
The movie is a comedy, you got a dad and a step-dad that is trying to show boat to the other, but there is a lot of the "warm fuzzies" in there that you could classify it as a more "grown up" family film.
I think that is what I liked about it the most that it was really centered around family, and not centered around sex. It really is about a family trying to work out a new dynamic when the mom gets re-married and the father finds out about it and comes back trying to prove how good of a father that he can be.
Of course like in most movies, they go about it the wrong way.... they are there to help them out any way they can, but they try to buy their love by spoiling them. However, it's one of the funniest forms of spoiling.
Will Ferrell plays the step-dad, who has always wanted to be a fathers, and tries for month's to get his new kids to warm up to him. He does everything that your typical "sitcom father" would do. He is there coaching basket ball, teaching Sunday School, doing everyone at once. Then there is Mark Wahlberg to is out cruising around the world doing some job... that now come to think of it it was never told what he actually did, and thinking that "when he was ready" he could come home and "settle down" with his family. However, he realizes now that it's to late for his backup plan and comes home to try and make Will look bad and get his family back.
You see early on in the movie that Mark couldn't be the father that he wanted to be because he is a free spirit with a problem with authority. He also has a really hard time staying within the cones... He seems to be great at everything, except being with his family. However, Will shows him the way and he gets his family back but not in way he thought he was going to.
Overall I give this movie a sold 7 out of 10. It's funny, cute, with a lot of sarcasm, and I personally think it's a movie that grows on you the more you see it.
