Playdate (2025)

Expecting a quiet playdate, two dads face relentless mercenaries. Perfect for fans of action-comedy and unexpected adventures!

Genres: Action, Comedy

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Playdate(2025)

PG-13
Movie1h 33mEnglishAction, Comedy
5.7
User Score
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Director: Luke Greenfield
Writer: Neil Goldman

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Overview

An out-of-work accountant expects a relaxed playdate with another dad and their kids, but the afternoon spirals into chaos when dangerous mercenaries show up. Completely unprepared, heโ€™s forced to scramble through a string of ridiculous, high-energy obstacles just to make it out in one piece.

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Pros: genuine laugh-out-loud moments; goofy action chaos; fun buddy chemistry | Cons: thin, messy story; uneven pacing and tone; crude language and violence

Will You Like This?

Youโ€™ll likely enjoy this if you want a silly, over-the-top action comedy with simple jokes and a โ€œjust have funโ€ vibe, similar to Keeping Up with the Joneses or Pixels; Not for you if you need smart, polished humor or family-friendly content.

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I thought this was a really refreshing movie. Easy to watchโ€ฆ few good jokes. Light hearted. No secret messages. Not politically motivated. Just a good entertaining movie!

This movie definitely involves money laundering. I'm not talking about the plot.

This is a typical buddy cop movie and you know all the beats before the movie even get started. I like Kevin, James and Alan Ritchson and they have decent chemistry, but the movie tried to fit too much and too many twists and into a short period of time. You could see most of them coming because of the different quick shots you get early in the movie. An OK film as background noise, but nothing else.

1.5/10 Still waiting for the joke

Funny Looks like a Reacher spin-off comedy

Alan Tudyk/Simon Maddox had one costume, and he looked 10/10 like Elon Musk unlike the movie.

I had low expectations, but this was hilarious from start to finish. 10/10

Solid bedtime film. Some good laughs, decent action, and a somewhat heartwarming (and predictable) storyline.

Absolutely shockingly bad film .... I am a big fan of Kevin James but jeez this was awful!!!!!!! Honestly the worst film I have seen for years!!!

This has to be the worst film Iโ€™ve watched this year! What on earth was Alan Ritchson thinking when he accepted the part? Did he not read the script? And surely Alan Tudyk is not so hard up that he has to resort to bit parts like this. You can probably get from this that I didnโ€™t like it.

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Sometimes you sit down to watch a movie that clearly isnโ€™t going to change your lifeโ€ฆ and somehow you end up laughing more than you thought you would. Thatโ€™s exactly what happened to me with Playdate. Itโ€™s not smart, itโ€™s not original, and itโ€™s definitely not aiming high, but thereโ€™s something in its clumsy charm that ends up being genuinely fun. Maybe itโ€™s the mix of goofy action, ridiculous situations, and a cast that looks like theyโ€™re just having a good time. I mainly watched it because Alan Ritchson is in it, and honestly, he surprised me. He has a natural comedic timing that doesnโ€™t feel forced. That big-kid energy he has โ€”half brute, half puppyโ€” works surprisingly well here. The movie relies on that vibe more than anything else: when heโ€™s on screen, things flow; when heโ€™s not, the weaknesses show more clearly. The humor is simple. Very simple. The kind that makes you ask yourself, โ€œWhy am I laughing at this?โ€โ€ฆ right before you laugh again. But hey, in a comedy like this, getting real laughs already counts as a win. It never pretends to be clever or groundbreaking; it just wants to entertain for a while, and that honesty helps. Technically, itโ€™s nothing to brag about. The script is bare bones, the action scenes run on autopilot, and some moments feel so out of nowhere that they might as well have been improvised. But because the film never asks you to take it seriously, you end up forgiving a lot. There are comedies that try so hard to be sharp that they become painful โ€”this one at least knows exactly what lane itโ€™s in. I wonโ€™t remember it next week, and I doubt anyone will. But during its runtime, it gave me a handful of genuine laughs, and thatโ€™s more than what many โ€œbiggerโ€ comedies manage nowadays. Sometimes a silly movie is all you need.

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