Come back, Daddy's Home 2; all is forgiven!

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 20, 2018

Offensive, amateurish and should be avoided, then forgotten. Who's the Daddy? Who cares?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 16, 2018

Limp jokes, bad chemistry and the least believable onscreen fraternal bond make for a very lacklustre viewing experience.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 15, 2018

None of the pieces comfortably fit with any of the ones that sit alongside of them. Worse, it's just didn't make me laugh, and for a holiday comedy that just might be the most unfortunate misstep of them all.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 28, 2017

It's not that Father Figures is irredeemably bad. It's that it's so predictable and yet so tonally disjointed.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 28, 2017

The film, which finished shooting more than two years ago before spending endless months without a release date, is both meandering and bloated, suggesting the Frankensteinian result of brutal test screenings.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 22, 2017

Father Figures is not just painfully anti-charming, it is transparently desperate.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 22, 2017

"Father Figures" is what happens when you throw a comedy and the laughs forget to show up.

| Original Score: D | Dec 22, 2017

Distinguished mainly by its overqualified cast and lack of inspiration, "Father Figures" can't decide whether it's a gross-out comedy or an uplifting tale of brotherly love; it embraces the worst of both worlds.

| Dec 22, 2017

At first [Helms and Wilson] seem incompatible. But their journey through family secrets delivers surprising charm.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 22, 2017

Director Sher shows no special affinity for comic pacing or enlivening dialogue scenes, so the movie just plods from scene to scene, building no momentum.

| Dec 22, 2017

Would you like to watch Wilson and a young child urinate on each other in a rest stop bathroom? Thought not.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 22, 2017

Who's your daddy? Who cares.

| Dec 22, 2017

A limply spritzing fountain of unconvincing (and unfunny) tricks out of the how-to-write-a-comedy-hit manual.

| Dec 22, 2017

The movie torpedoes its sense of comic discovery. It's as if everyone involved can't wait for it all to be over and go home.

| Original Score: D+ | Dec 22, 2017

A comedy that doesn't go for cheap laughs is commendable. A comedy that doesn't go for any laughs at all is inexplicable.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 21, 2017

Moving images were projected, along with recorded sound, which indicates it is a movie, but the effect was so listless, low-energy and profoundly unentertaining that I jotted down in my notes "what even IS this?"

Full Review | Dec 21, 2017

This lightweight comic road movie is unhurried and eager to please. Most of the characters are live-action cartoons, though all of them are treated sympathetically.

| Dec 21, 2017

Comedian Katt Williams, in a small role as a chipper hitchhiker, injects about 15 minutes worth of fun into Father Figures, an otherwise mostly dreadful road comedy in which Ed Helms and Owen Wilson play twins searching for a man to call dad.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 21, 2017

This is a lazy story, wholly dependent upon the likability of its cast which, while considerable, isn't enough to make it worth the trouble.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 21, 2017