Playdate

Movie • 2025

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When recently unemployed accountant Brian (Kevin James) agrees to a playdate with charismatic stay-at-home dad Jeff (Alan Ritchson) and their sons, he expects an easy afternoon of small talk and football tossing. Instead, he's thrust into a chaotic scramble to stay alive as they are pursued by a ruthless team of mercenaries. Brian stumbles through one ridiculous obstacle after another, his zero tactical skills a stark contrast to Jeff's oddly prepared demeanor. Director Luke Greenfield (Let's Be Cops, The Girl Next Door) hilariously collides suburban dad life with high-stakes thrills, transforming an ordinary afternoon into an absurd action-packed adventure where minivan mayhem meets professional hitmen.

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When out-of-work accountant Brian joins stay-at-home dad Jeff for a playdate with their sons, he expects a laid-back afternoon. Instead, they're chased by mercenaries, and Brian—totally unprepared—must survive one absurd obstacle after another.


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Roger Ebert

“Playdate” is an ugly, mean, humorless movie.

rogerebert.com/reviews/playdate-kevin-james-amazon-prime-video-film-review-2025

The A.V. Club

Playdate substantiates every predetermined and conspiratorial stereotype about streaming titles being inherently 'lesser' than theatrical releases.

avclub.com/playdate-review

Screen Rant

Watching this Kevin James action comedy is like taking a time machine to a time when merely implying a kid is gay could be seen as comedy. None of the action is filmed well, almost everything is unmotivated by even the slightest semblance of logic, and nearly every scene is papered over with a recognizable needle drop that acts like a band-aid on a gushing wound.

screenrant.com/playdate-movie-review-2025/

Forbes

Playdate, an action comedy starring Reacher star Alan Ritchson and Kevin James, is new on streaming — and the movie is getting splattered by Rotten Tomatoes critics.

forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/11/12/playdate-rotten-tomatoes-critics-crush-alan-ritchson-and-kevin-james-comedy/

Flickering Myth

"Playdate becomes so out there that one feels compelled to tiptoe around what the story is actually about. Of course, by saying that, the film already sounds far more interesting when it’s actually damn near unwatchable and insufferable."

flickeringmyth.com/movie-review-playdate-2025/

Paste Magazine

In more than a decade of reviewing films for Paste, I’ve rarely come across anything as vastly irritating and downright embarrassing as Playdate ... Playdate will shake your faith in the idea of ever popping on a direct-to-streaming original, lest you again end up watching something like this.

pastemagazine.com/movies/kevin-james/playdate-movie-review-kevin-james-alan-ritchson-problems-prime-video-action-comedy

The Hollywood Reporter

Playdate isn’t a movie. It’s a compendium of clichés in search of one. What’s even worse is that the clichés are so stale.

hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/playdate-review-alan-ritchson-kevin-james-prime-video-1236425095/

The Review Geek

Playdate includes several themes such as empathy and self-confidence. But they are all tied in with the concept of the found family trope which elevates the movie from being a straightforward and shallow action comedy to a movie that has heart.

thereviewgeek.com/playdate-endingexplained/