The Family Plan 2 continues Dan’s desperate efforts to keep his past sins from destroying his current family. As in the first film, violence, sexual references and crude language are the biggest enemies for viewers. While not as prevalent as the first movie, The Family Plan 2’s content issues must be addressed for any family plan involving a movie night.
There’s nothing more important than family.
Dan’s tried, for years, to instill this key sentiment into his three children; It didn’t help when Dan’s father attempted to murder them all.
That horrible encounter (as documented in 2023’s The Family Plan) forced Dan to reveal plenty of things about himself to his wife and kids that he’d wished were left unspoken: that his father was the head of a criminal organization; that Dan had once been an assassin; that his real name was Sean.
It was a rocky time, for sure—until the family came together and got Dan’s dad, Liam McCaffrey, locked up.
Well, Liam didn’t last long in prison. He died, and suddenly, there was an empty spot on top of dad’s empire.
How does that affect Dan? Well, it doesn’t. Not at first, at least. Which leaves him free to enjoy a family Christmas in London (where daughter Nina has found a new home for herself). And while he’s there, he may as well visit Cadogan Bank, a client of his requesting his security advisement services.
They ask him to break into the bank for them—to expose its weaknesses, they say. And it’s only when he gets inside the bank’s inner vaults that he realizes the person sent to monitor him doesn’t work at the bank at all.
The man introduces himself as Finn—Dan’s long-lost half-brother (a secret of which not even Dan was privy). He’s jealous of Dan: While he froze on the city streets, Dan grew up on the wealthy McCaffrey estate.
The elaborate “bank heist” was all so Finn could obtain a digital key—one that, once plugged into the McCaffrey estate’s computer, will give him access to all the family’s finances and, more troubling, its deadly contacts. And he wouldn’t mind using those contacts to end the lives of Dan and Dan’s family.
Finn nabs the key and makes his escape to do just that.
And, well, that doesn’t quite sit well with Dan.
Dan continuously offers Finn mercy. If Finn only lets go of their father’s empire, Dan tells him, Dan would welcome him into his own family. He fully admits that, were Finn not his brother, he’d probably just kill him. Nevertheless, he shows sympathy for Finn over the experiences he went through, understanding just how tough a life his brother must have had. We see Dan attempt to stay true to his ultimate ideal—that family is the most important thing—despite his brother’s murderous anger.
While Dan’s family is frustrated be on the run again, they all spring into action to help their father, offering up whatever skills they have.
A man risks his life to save someone else. Likewise, Dan’s wife, Jessica, bravely jumps into battle to assist her husband when he gets into a tough spot.
Dan encourages a man to reach out to his estranged father, and the advice ends up rebuilding that relationship.
Men fight inside a church. Someone describes an object as the “key to the kingdom.”
A tour guide describes a fountain known as Eros, named after the Greek god of love. However, the guide points out that the fountain actually depicts Anteros, “the god of requited love.”
Nina uses spy tech to listen in on a man and woman having sex.
We meet Nina’s boyfriend, Omar, when he steps out of the shower in her apartment; he’s wearing a towel, and Jessica becomes flustered when she sees his muscular build. Dan and Jessica passionately kiss before being interrupted. “You know this is the room we made Max in, right?” Dan asks Jessica.
When thinking about a future family, Dan’s son, Kyle, says that he plans to “play the field” for a decade first. Dan introduces his family to another contact—a woman with whom he previously had a fling. Jessica, upset by this revelation, tries to see if Dan would be mad if she had a mysterious ex-boyfriend, to whom she gives a crude name.
A picture shows a woman posing in lingerie. We see a man lounging in his underwear. Statues depict a naked man and a naked woman, their sculpted parts visible. A background song references sex.
A man gets shot and killed. Others are crushed by shelves of wine or hit in the head with blunt objects. (It’s unclear if they’re simply knocked unconscious or dead.)
Cars crash and careen through outdoor restaurant seating. People engage in fistfights. Dan tackles a man through a window; he suffers a couple hits from a metal pipe. People narrowly escape lethal situations, avoiding being stabbed, run over and shot.
A catacomb is filled with human skulls.
The s-word is used roughly 20 times; we hear a wide assortment of other crudities, like “a–,” “b–ch,” “d–n,” “h—,” “p-ss,” “d-ck,” “pr-ck,” “twat,” “bloody,” “crap” and “ho.” God’s name is used in vain near 50 times. An animated sequence depicts a middle finger.
We hear the f-word cut off once, and someone uses the acronym “F. U.”
People drink liquor and wine. Someone discovers that he’s been drugged. A man goes through an old stash of joints.
We see a large pile of vomit. Someone urinates.
Often, movie sequels pitch themselves as “bigger” and “bolder.” Not so with The Family Plan 2.
By all accounts, this sequel is a bit milder than its predecessor. The fight scenes are fewer and less deadly; the crudities contain fewer f-words; and sexual content isn’t quite as intimate.
Ah, you may think, so does this mean The Family Plan 2 is a good option for my family?
Well, let’s hold our horses.
Sure, we can give the movie credit for being a little cleaner than its previous entry. But cleaner does not mean clean; while violence is a bit tempered down, when it comes to the sexual and crude language concerns, those margins are, well, marginal at best.
Kennedy Unthank studied journalism at the University of Missouri. He knew he wanted to write for a living when he won a contest for “best fantasy story” while in the 4th grade. What he didn’t know at the time, however, was that he was the only person to submit a story. Regardless, the seed was planted. Kennedy collects and plays board games in his free time, and he loves to talk about biblical apologetics. He’s also an avid cook. He thinks the ending of Lost “wasn’t that bad.”
