Daddy’s Home 2 **
Daddy’s Home 2 does bring more daddies into the domestic fray with a couple of snatched laughs – more in disbelief at what is being delivered on screen with hindsight.
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Daddy’s Home ***
Heart-warmingly funny because Ferrell and Walhberg deliver what’s expected of them. A shame it doesn’t get riskier or more poignant with the spectrum of emotion such a situation richly offers up to make it hit home that much more.
Contraband ****
Chris Farraday in Contraband is another “made for Mark Wahlberg” part, the kind that allows this Boston-born star the chance to tap into his own tough upbringing experiences of being on the wrong side of the law, while showing a softie side. Although perfectly cast in the likes of Four Brothers, The Departed and The …
The Other Guys – 4*
It starts in school. If you’re not one of the popular guys, you long to be. Become one of them, and it’s tough staying at the top. Saturday Night Live writer Adam McKay’s gargantuan giggle fest of deadpan lunatic proportions, The Other Guys, takes this concept and places it bang-slap in cop territory, where the …