Movie review
November 11, 2025 · 106 min · PG-13
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
The Family Plan 2 follows former assassin Dan Morgan as he plans a family Christmas trip to London to surprise his daughter who is studying there. His wife and two younger kids come along, but the vacation quickly turns into chases, heists, and fights across Europe when Dan’s half-brother from his old criminal life shows up with blackmail and unfinished business tied to their late father. The story mixes action set pieces with family arguments, bonding moments, and holiday comedy as everyone works to stay together and survive. It stays centered on personal family loyalty and everyday parent-teen tensions without any visible social or identity messaging in the plot or characters.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for The Family Plan 2.
Woke representation / casting
The main family cast continues the established characters from the first film. A supporting role features Nina’s boyfriend Omar, played by British-Moroccan actor Reda Elazouar as a French-Moroccan character who joins the action. This adds ethnic variety in a London setting and fits the plot as a helpful parkour participant, but the heritage detail stands out to some viewers as possible identity signaling rather than pure story necessity.
Woke political dialogue
No political arguments, activist speeches, or identity-based talks occur. Character conversations stay on family bickering, teen attitudes, vacation plans, and action.
Identity-driven story themes
The narrative follows family loyalty, protecting each other from a criminal past, and bonding during crisis with holiday comedy. No themes center on race, gender, sexuality, or modern social justice ideas.
Western institutional / cultural critique
Conflict comes from a personal family crime empire and blackmail. There is no framing of Western systems, traditional family roles, masculinity, or institutions as oppressive or in need of activist-style critique.
Woke character or canon changes
The film continues the same characters and world from the 2023 original with no ideological or identity-driven alterations to established figures or backstory.
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
A handful of social media users called the Omar character forced diversity or woke insertion because of his background and questioned its fit. These complaints remained limited and fringe with no major news pickup or broad campaign. Most discussion ignored politics entirely.
Creator track record context
Writer David Coggeshall and director Simon Cellan Jones have careers in standard commercial action, drama, and family projects with no activist or identity-focused pattern. Producer Mark Wahlberg has publicly pushed back against celebrities injecting politics into entertainment.
Production
