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Dir: Sean Anders (12A 117mins)

Daddy’s Home was a middling success a few years back, pairing Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell after their successful comedy outing The Other Guys. Whilst not exactly ground breaking, Daddy’s Home was a pleasant enough time-waster but hardly worthy of a follow-up. Here’s the sequel though with some brave and potentially rewarding casting. Wahlberg and Ferrell’s competing dads have reached a truce with regards to their shared children and plan to spend Christmas together; the only problem is their own dads are also coming. Classic sequel raising stakes. Ferrell’s dad is played by the ever-reliable John Lithgow with whom he shares comedy DNA and Wahlberg’s is Mel Gibson. Yep. Good casting. The scene is set for lots of riffing on personas, the rights and wrongs of different styles of parenting and how fathers cast long shadows on their sons. Like its predecessor it’s a pleasant enough time-waster.

Opens November 22