Looks like a good one!
An extended "in my day" joke intended to convey the superiority of old people over a lot of supposedly contemporary behavior that doesn't actually exist in real life.
After a while it seems to run out of jokes, maybe to make room for all the crying and hug-it-out family redemption in the last half hour.
I can't deny I did feel fonder of my own family afterward, mostly because I know none of them would ever make me sit through Parental Guidance.
Frankly it all feels a bit obvious, perfunctory and dated.
Billy Crystal and Bette Midler play dysfunctional grandparents. Ouch, and twice ouch.
However, most of the conflicts aren't really ever fleshed out, and the movie dedicates just as much energy to Crystal getting hit in the groin with a bat as it does to satisfactorily resolving much of anything.
The Baby Boomer teaming no one was asking for?Billy Crystal and Bette Midler?melded to that most moribund of genres, rugrats "comedy"...
It's not much fun to watch the perennial Oscar host take a baseball bat to the groin or vomit on a child, let alone in the same scene.
It's hard to say what's worse: the sneering disdain for modern child-rearing tactics or the hacky generation-clash humor.
AND THE TWO BEST!! :mj07: :mj07: :mj07:
a sloppy concretion inadvertently showcasing pretty much everything that can be done wrong in filmmaking short of forgetting to remove the lens cap. Though in this case, that last might actually have been an improvement
..this flick is so desperate to be hip that it ultimately feels as relevant as "Mr. Belvedere"... If you have to ask what that is, then you probably won't enjoy this movie.
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