![]() During a scene where the youngest Simmons, Barker (Kyle Harrison Breitkopf) confronts his supposed demons by throwing his imaginary friend, Karl the kangaroo, into oncoming traffic, Fickman hits every wrong note possible, both in terms of narrative and visuals. ![]() Third put-up: Alice wears a very cute pair of shoes.įorget about the affirmations pick-ups are too elusive, largely because Andy Fickman ( You Again) is such an astonishingly clumsy director. Sometimes Alice seems drunk, but Tomei’s willingness to appear with frizzy and/or windblown hair throughout the film is brave. Tomei valiantly tries to compensate for the lack of mobility in his and Midler’s faces by moving all her features at once: the brow furrows, the mouth twists, the nose wrinkles. Only Billy Crystal and his doctors know exactly what he has done to his face, but the fact that he now looks like a skinned grape is so distracting that most of his lines, even the 25 percent that are funny, tend to get lost. In keeping with the holiday spirit, here is an attempt to use Alice’s rules for putdowns vs. ( READ: About the Billy Crystal you can trust, everyone’s favorite Oscar host) ![]() He himself is the kind of parent who has no idea that his daughter has been web designing for ESPN for the last five years, even though he himself has long been employed in the sports world (announcing games for the Fresno Grizzlies and dreaming of becoming the voice of the San Francisco Giants). Instead of “no,” she says “consider the consequences.” For every putdown the three young Simmons impose upon each other, they are told to then give three “put-ups.” This doesn’t seem like the worst way to live, but Artie thinks it is silly. She’s a modern mother, who deprives her three offspring of sugar and imposes the rule of affirmations. Phil’s parents, the good grandparents, aren’t available, otherwise Alice never would have asked Artie and Diane because her parents have been vocal about their disdain for her parenting style. And you’d be sad.Īrtie (Billy Crystal) and Diane Decker ( Bette Midler) fly from Fresno to Atlanta to babysit their three grandchildren for a few days their only child, Alice (Marisa Tomei) and her husband Phil Simmons (Tom Everett Scott) desperately need a getaway. Follow if you blended Parenthood and Modern Family, sucked the soul, charm and the good acting out of them, added some jokes about vomit, urination and defecation, and made a movie about intergenerational conflicts with the sloppy remains? You’d have Parental Guidance.
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