In each set of these father-son relationships, the way forward involves forgiveness and trust, two virtues that have been in short supply. When those secrets are exposed, it creates a rift that father and son are forced to work through as they both learn how to be more honest with one another. Don is so committed to being positive that it leads at times to keep significant secrets, refusing to tell the truth about some hard things in his life. Love and affection are foreign things to him, but Kurt slowly sees from Brad and Don’s relationship that being a good father means being able to express love.ĭon and Brad, on the other hand, have different issues. Dusty initially wants nothing to do with his selfish, narcissistic father, Kurt, because Kurt so consistently focused on himself instead of Dusty when his boy was growing up. On a deeper level, we also see each father-son pair working through significant issues in their own relationships. Both are shown to be important, though the story also shows how Dusty, especially, has slowly learned to incorporate both approaches.
Like the first film in this franchise, Daddy’s Home 2 comedically explores two different styles of fathering children: the sensitive, affirming style and the rough-and-tumble, masculinity-embracing style. So when they all end up in one house together for Christmas, Kurt’s determined to help Dusty see all that mamby-pamby sensitive fatherhood stuff for the silliness that is-once again unleashing the kind alpha male/beta male conflicts that Brad and Dusty thought they’d already conquered. And he thinks even less of the softening influence that Brad’s apparently had on Dusty. Kurt doesn’t think much of Don and Brad’s affirmation-drenched father-son relationship. And then there’s Don Whitaker, a guy so sensitive, so touch-feely, so … huggy! he makes Mr. Kurt puts the alpha in alpha male, bragging constantly about his days as a space shuttle pilot and hitting on any pretty woman he sees-always with positive results. You see, Dusty’s dad, Kurt, is coming to town. That’s because the visitor list for this blended family celebration isn’t yet complete. If that sounds like a recipe for relational awkwardness, well, we haven’t even gotten started. (Dusty’s since remarried Karen, a novelist with a little girl, Adrianna, from her previous marriage.) In fact, things are so good between Dusty and Brad that they decide to have their families spend Christmas together. Yup, these days, it’s all about being the best “co-dads” possible to their children. They’re as opposite as they can be, but Brad and Dusty have put their conflict-filled ways (as seen in 2015’s Daddy’s Home) behind them. And Brad and Sarah have added a little one of their own now, too. He’s now a doting, devoted stepdad to Megan and Dylan, the two kids she had with Dusty. But Brad Whitaker and Dusty Mayron, well, they’re making the best of it.īrad’s married to Dusty’s ex-wife, Sarah. I mean, just think of all the things you can do.Blended families present challenges for everyone involved. You could have Seth Rollins not tear his MCL and miss his second straight Wrestlemania because the man deserves way better than that.
You could have Undertaker go out against someone who’s not Roman fucking Reigns. You could have Lesnar and Goldberg not hurtling toward a Wrestlemania match that will probably be for the Universal Championship despite the fact that they’re both part-timers. You could have Kevin Owens not drop the belt to Goldberg at Fastlane. So maybe you shouldn’t get it.īut, maybe you should get it because just think of all the things you can do - all the things that WWE won’t do in real life. Also, WWE 2K17 isn’t very good according to Mike. It costs either $50 or $75 depending on how many additional wrestlers you want. It’s these people who find themselves at odds between what they want a company like the WWE to do and what the WWE actually does. Anyone above a certain intelligence (like 40 IQ) is destined to become a “smark,” a smart mark who understands that wrestling is fake but enjoys it on a more conceptual level. It’s hard to have a consistently positive relationship with professional wrestling.
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