A mild-mannered radio executive strives to become the best stepdad to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling and freeloading real father arrives, forcing him to compete for the affection of the kids.
Just when aggressively nice Brad (Will Ferrell) is achieving breakthrough status as stepdad to two kids, who shows up but his wife's ex (Mark Wahlberg), a muscled-up stud worshipped by the children. Wahlberg's character never seems all that dangerous, while Ferrell's goes from bland to desperate to off the rails - and very little about that transition is genuinely funny. - Two stars