Daddy’s Home 2 Dvd

Daddy’s Home 2 is a 2017 American Christmas comedy film directed by Sean Anders and written by Anders and John Morris. A sequel to Daddy’s Home (2015), it stars Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Linda Cardellini, John Cena, with John Lithgow and Mel Gibson. The plot follows now-reformed fathers Brad and Dusty (Ferrell and Wahlberg), now co-parenting Dusty’s kids, who have to deal with their own fathers (Lithgow and Gibson) visiting for the holidays.

Principal photography on the film began in Massachusetts in March 2017 and it was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on November 10, 2017. Although the film received generally negative reviews from critics, it grossed over $180 million worldwide on a $70 million budget.

Plot

After finally becoming friends, Brad Whitaker and Dusty Mayron have a co-dad system where Dusty’s two children, Megan and Dylan, take turns at each father’s house. Dusty has also remarried, this time to Karen, a writer, doctor, and is stepfather to Adrianna, Karen’s daughter. Brad and Dusty decide to do away with having two separate Christmases (after Megan had embarrassed the two by admitting during a school recital, through a letter she wrote, that she did not like Christmas anymore due to the dual arrangement) and instead do one “together Christmas”. Dusty’s tough fighter pilot/astronaut father Kurt and Brad’s overbearing and over-cheerful dad, Don, unexpectedly arrive for Christmas. Megan and Dylan warmly embrace Don, since he is very present in their lives, while Kurt hasn’t seen the children since they were toddlers. Through jealousy of the affection the children show to Don, Kurt rents a large cabin through Airbnb, to house all of them through the holiday week.

Brad and Dusty’s co-dad relationship is put to the test by Kurt’s meddling. Brad’s wife Sara also tries to bond with Karen but is taken aback by some of Karen’s actions, like shoplifting clothes from a store. Sara starts noticing why Don never showed up without Brad’s mother. Dylan develops a crush on a little girl staying in the cabin next door, thus making Megan and Adrianna constantly tease him in front of the little girl. Brad gives him some “advice”, and Dusty interjects when he finds out that Brad is having what looks like “the talk” with Dylan, when it had been agreed that Dusty would handle that. Finding the trees too small in a farm, they illegally go on to private property to cut one down. Brad mistakes a cell tower for a tree and is electrocuted. After bowling, the family goes out to take the kids to see Santa. While there, Kurt convinces Dylan to ask Santa for a shotgun, which he agrees to. While out hunting the next day, Megan accidentally shoots Kurt in the shoulder, sending him to the hospital. While Kurt is disabled, she manages to shoot two turkeys, surprising Kurt. Brad confesses to Sara that they love each other more than his dad loves him.

Brad, Dusty, Don and Kurt go to an improv comedy club, where Dusty sees Kurt picking up a woman at the bar and leaving with her, which annoys Dusty. Brad enters Don into the improv show, and Dusty chooses a topic of a husband confronting his cheating wife as the subject of an improv skit. As the skit progresses, it is revealed that Don has separated from his wife in real life. Sara comforts Don about his divorce in front of an eggnog bowl. When they leave, Megan and Adrianna take cups of alcoholic eggnog to drink. Brad says he knows that is why Dusty chose that particular topic, and to get back at Dusty, Brad has invited Adrianna’s father, Roger, to the cabin for Christmas.

The entire family takes part in a Christmas manger representation. Brad gets into a fight with Dusty because he wants to play Joseph, which Dusty is currently playing. When Megan begins to swear, and Adrianna falls from being drunk, the crowd breaks up. Instead of Dusty fighting Brad, he almost comes to blows with Roger, and Don is repeatedly hit in the face with ice-balls. On Christmas Day, the families, depressed, all pack up to leave. On their way out of town, the families are forced back to town on account of a blizzard and are forced to take shelter at a movie theater, seeing Missile Tow, a fictional holiday action comedy film starring Liam Neeson. When the power cuts off during the movie, the families go to the lobby where each man confronts their father about the secrets, lies, and attitudes, and eventually manage to patch things up. After remembering some advice given to him by Kurt, Dylan walks toward the girl he has a crush on, to kiss her, but instead kisses Adrianna. Dusty tells Roger that loving Adrianna means loving her real father as well since he is also part of the family. Roger almost leaves without Adrianna, but has a change of heart after everyone breaks out into a song of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” and decides to stay.

Sometime later, at the airport, Don and Kurt are preparing to leave to head back to their respective homes. Kurt heads with Don up the terminal escalators, where he reveals to Don that he switched out the tickets and they’re going to spend New Year’s in Las Vegas. As Brad’s mom’s flight arrives, Dusty and Brad discover that Brad’s new stepdad is Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot of the “Miracle on the Hudson” flight. Brad and Dusty remember that they watched the film Sully together recently, and Dusty appears to be happy to see him. Brad runs down the terminal and says that Sully will never replace his father, because Sully has only one great personal story, whereas his father has millions.

In a post credit scene, Don is at the manger, reading about other churches and their Christmas traditions. Everyone around him doesn’t notice him as they take the props and leave. He shouts to them, “Merry Christmas, fellows!” before walking away.

Cast

Will Ferrell as Brad Whitaker
Mark Wahlberg as Dusty Mayron
Mel Gibson as Kurt Mayron
John Lithgow as Don Whitaker
Linda Cardellini as Sara Whitaker
John Cena as Roger
Scarlett Estevez as Megan Mayron
Owen Vaccaro as Dylan Mayron
Alessandra Ambrosio as Karen Mayron
Didi Costine as Adrianna
Bill Burr as Jerry
Chesley Sullenberger as himself
Liam Neeson as himself
Daniel DiMaggio as Young Dusty