Happened to catch this movie on TV, Christmas Eve. I found it fairly enjoyable for what it was, a dumb comedy. The film stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, who have a great chemistry with each other! The premise is extremely silly, and thankfully, the movie doesn't take itself too seriously. Perhaps it delves into that silliness too much. The general plot functions to a decent degree. It generally centers around the two leads trying to "out-father" one another. The characters don't have much in the way of depth, though it's good enough that they serve the jokes.

What of the comedy, though? There's a dissonance to me between the more ill-spirited, adult jokes and the silly, fun-for-the-whole-family ones. Some of them work, some don't. As an example of the first, there's a token black character in the movie, who would have been fine if the movie quit making these thin-veiled racist jokes. Essentially things like: "So you're going to fire me because of the color of my skin?" and pointing out that someone is racist, this is half of his character's repertoire. Then there is the awful dance scene [spoiler]at the end.[/spoiler] One interesting thing actually - I thought the movie was set in the early 2000s, but was surprised to learn it was a 2015 release. It seems to be stuck in the time period I mentioned, where skateboarding and breakdancing were all the hype among the kids. It's quite apparent that old executives had a say in the film's making, as it is absurdly dated in its essence.

Overall, there's not much to say about "Daddy's Home". It's a stupid comedy that might be worth a watch if you are willing to enjoy it for it what it is. I did, though I'm not going to deny its prelavent issues. Still, it had some genuinely hillarious moments.