Principal photography on the film began in Massachusetts in March 2017 and it was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on November 10, 2017.

Envious of the affection the children show Don, Kurt rents a large cabin to house them all through the holiday week.

Especially painful was when, during a youth Glee Club recital, he embarrassed himself by missing his solo part when Kurt left to make out with a woman during it.

Dylan develops a crush on Casey, a little girl staying in the cabin nearby, causing Megan and Adrianna to constantly tease him in front of her.

Brad enters Don into the improv show, and Dusty chooses the topic of a husband confronting his cheating wife as the subject of the skit.

When the power cuts off during the movie, everyone goes to the lobby where each man confronts his father about his secrets, lies, and attitudes, then reconcile.

[5] In January 2017, it was reported that Mel Gibson and John Lithgow were being sought to play the main characters' fathers in the film.

[6] The two were later confirmed to star, along with Linda Cardellini, John Cena, Owen Vaccaro and Scarlett Estevez, reprising their roles.

The website's critical consensus reads, "A formulaic comedy that's unlikely to spread much yuletide merriment, Daddy's Home 2 can only muster a few stray yuks from its talented cast.

[14] Alonso Duralde of TheWrap was critical of what he described as the film's sloppiness and laziness, saying, "Director Sean Anders and his co-writer John Morris execute what are supposed to be the laughs with blunt force.

The jokes announce themselves with heavy footsteps, and almost none of them land, stranding a talented cast with terrible material that they're straining to sell.

"[18] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 1 out of 4 stars, saying: "After enduring last week's lousy and lazy A Bad Moms Christmas, I would have bet it would be many a year before we'd see another holiday comedy more sour and cynical and profoundly unfunny.