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Movie Round Up #1

I've recently invested in a Cineworld Unlimited card and thus I have been watching all of the films. Here are some quick fire reviews. Daddy's Home Stepfather Will Ferrell and actual father Mark Wahlberg compete for the love of two of the most unlikeable children depicted on screen in recent years. Not enough grossout humour to appeal to idiot teenagers, nor enough actual humour to appeal to adults, it's a tremendously bland affair. There's some pleasing old school Ferrell insanity in the scene where he dresses up as Santa Claus to ludicrously one up his rival, but that's about it. Zoolander 2 See above. I saw Zoolander 2 three weeks ago and can barely remember anything about it. I said somewhere last year about Trainwreck that if LeBron James is the funniest thing about your film, you have a problem. Z2 has the same issue with Sting, who amusingly sends himself up, along with his sex god reputation. It's an all too fleeting highlight of a film more con...