On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 31% based on 119 reviews and an average rating of 4.9/10. The site’s critical consensus reads, “Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg have proven comedic chemistry, but Daddy’s Home suffers from a dearth of genuinely funny ideas – and lacks enough guts or imagination to explore the satirical possibilities of its premise.”[5] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 42 out of 100, based on 30 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.[24] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “B+” on an A+ to F scale.[25]