Plan en familia 2

I'll admit Michelle is always gorgeous to watch but even that didn't rescue the film for me. I felt almost no real effort by anybody went into this film. It simply felt like chatGPT had come up with the story line.

The locations also seemed entirely arbitrary. As if the cast wanted to just get air miles. I fell asleep about 3/4 of the way through so it may of got better but everything up to that point seemed a bit pointless.

Perfectly watchable holiday action-comedy: some laughs, some decent chases, lovely Christmas shots of London and Paris. Pacing is on-and-off; it'll get exciting, then suddenly boring, then picks up again. Mix of James Bond + Mission Impossible + family drama + Christmas cheese. Nothing great, nothing terrible. Exactly the kind of lazy holiday morning movie you can half-watch while doing other stuff. 6/10, one-time background watch, will probably rewatch next December while decorating the tree.

Look, this isn't meant to be a Jason Statham style action-packed movie. It has all the trappings for it, sure. But, it's self aware enough to know it's not fooling anyone. It's great for an end of the Holiday Family Crash out on the Couch night.

Dad will prob fall asleep, but the movie is wholesome enough to be wiz-bang and done well enough to not drive a film buff crazy. But, it's filled with tropes, safe for the kiddos, and enough to crash out to. If you miss the ending from passing out, don't worry. It's that kinda of movie.

I actually liked the original a lot, so was excited to see this come out. Unfortunately, this is not nearly as well done or entertaining.

There's much less action in general, and the comedy bounces between lazy and old tropes from the first movie.

The writing/story is pretty lazy as well. Too many conveniences to pop them out of impossibly written situations. Same with acting. Not sure if he's just getting older, but Wahlberg seemed particularly uninterested the entire movie, a big departure from the first.

All of that out of the way, it's still an extremely watchable movie. Throw it on when you're ready to turn your brain off and veg out for a while.

This sequel has all the charm of the original, in that it's not meant to be over complicated. It's got cool action sequences and the chemistry between the cast makes them a truly believable imperfect family.

It can get a bit slow at times but this movie wasn't made to win an Oscar, it was made so families could sit back and watch a funny action comedy together close to the holidays.

It's not the best or even original, I would just call it a fun watch.