Parental Guidance
Old school grandfather Artie, who is accustomed to calling the shots, meets his match when he and his eager-to-please wife Diane agree to babysit their three grandkids when their type-A helicopter parents go away for work. Problems arise when the kids' 21st-century behavior collides with Artie and Diane's old-school methods.
7 December 1980, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
15 December 1977, Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan
9 January 1965, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
June 20, 2016
A more clichéd, cloying, and predictable treacle fest than 'Parental Guidance' you will not find-if you're an adult. That's why it's a pretty good film for small children!
June 30, 2013
A joyless and crude comedy that celebrates bathroom humor.
December 28, 2012
One of those intergenerational embarrassment comedies in the Meet the Fockers line, where children can enjoy seeing grown-ups looking ridiculous.
March 29, 2013
Borscht Belt humor combines with serious schmaltz to produce this gummy formulaic family comedy.
December 26, 2012
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.
January 03, 2013
This grating family comedy resembles a sitcom in its flat lighting, patronizing music cues, and frames supplying little visual information apart from the actors' mugging faces.
December 26, 2012
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.
December 27, 2012
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.
June 27, 2014
The kids are mostly a drag and the schmaltz is poured on as thick as maple syrup, but if those by-the-numbers Disney '60s comedies with Suzanne Pleshette and Dean Jones...are your thing, Parental Guidance will warm you up over the holidays
March 14, 2013
People with brains they can't turn on and off for 90 minute stretches of holiday family togetherness will be driven to take some kind of painkiller before the final credits roll. Everyone else will be fine
May 05, 2016
A strong candidate for the worst movie I've seen all year.
June 16, 2013
The film's gags are predictable and fairly lame, but the stars' diehard fans will enjoy Crystal's snarky one-liners and, yes, Midler's singing.
