The Family Plan 2: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Mark Wahlberg returns as the retired assassin dad for an action comedy sequel
Year: 2025
Certificate: 12
The family that kills together, stays together - this was the somewhat bizarre message of the first Family Plan movie, an action comedy in which it is revealed that dull dad Dan (Mark Wahlberg) is actually dull because he's an ex-government assassin laying low. And then, when his identity is discovered and the baddies pile in, the family slowly comes round to the idea that violence is the best way out of the problem.
Mum Jessica (Michelle Monaghan) gets to put her kickboxing classes to good use, while son Kyle is able to apply his video-game killing skills to real life and daughter Nina rediscovers her love of journalism. And baby Max? He just laughs at everything.
After this bonding experience, the festive sequel picks up with the family headed to London and merrily singing EMF's Unbelievable together in the car. Once in the land of quaint buildings, red buses and cars with troubling manual gear sticks, they run into another ghost from Dan's past - the deadly Aidan (Kit Harington) - and the rambunctious family talent for violence is put to highly entertaining use once more.
Directed once again by Brit Simon Cellan Jones (Years And Years) and reuniting the cast from the first movie, this does exactly what it says on the tin and maybe a little more. Look out for Sanjeev Bhaskar and Borgen's Sidse Babett Knudsen in supporting roles. (106 minutes)
