Artie and Diane agree to look after their three grandkids when their type-A helicopter parents need to leave town for work. Problems arise when the kids' 21st-century behaviors collide with Artie and Diane's old-school methods.
Harmless family comedy.
They left it late, but the makers of Parental Guidance may just have clinched the palm for Worst Family Entertainment of 2012.
Will their unconventional parenting prove hit or miss with today’s mollycoddled kids? Just as ghastly as it sounds.
Parental Guidance is a brutal comedy of bad manners in which the grandparents from hell descend on the daughter and son-in-law from purgatory to dispute whose right it is to impose their values on a new generation emerging from the corner of the map bearing the sign "Here Be Dragons".
Cue too many gags about poo and getting hit in the crotch with a baseball bat.
Goes for easy targets.
Billy Crystal and Bette Midler on why they need Parental Guidance
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