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Parental Guidance: Blame the Squeeze Generation Search: News & Quotes Jobs Login Register Subscribe Enter a term, stock symbol or company name Search Select City Help Home News Commentary Business Investing Sports Life Arts Technology Drive Site Map Film Television Books Celebrity Music Theatre Visual Arts Awards Video Film Reviews And get unlimited access TRY GLOBE UNLIMITED - 1 MONTH FOR JUST 99¢ on all your devices See my opttiions!! Home » Arts » Film » Film Reviews FILM REVIEW Parental Guidance: Blame the squeeze generation LIAM LACEY The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Dec. 25 2012, 4:00 PM EST Last updated Tuesday, Dec. 25 2012, 5:21 PM EST / 0 comments 3 1 2 0 0 Print AA License Directed by Andy Shortly after he gets fired from his job as a minor- Fickman league baseball announcer, Artie Decker (Billy Crystal) Written by Lisa Addario and his wife Diane (Bette Midler) get a chance to EDITORS' PICKS and Joe Syracuse spend time with their three grandchildren. Their Starring Billy Crystal, worry-wart daughter Alice (Marisa Tomei) and her GLOBE INVESTOR Bette Midler and Marisa inventor husband Phil (Tom Everett Scott) have been Why housing prices aren't coming back Tomei invited to a convention/getaway, so Alice reluctantly Classification G asks her parents to babysit for five days. SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Country USA Editor's letter: Enjoying Canadian winter, Language English Parental Guidance is one by the book of those LIFE intergenerational Adrenaline rush! The Globe goes embarrassment comedies tobogganing – and gets some expert tips in the Meet the Fockers WATCH line, where children can Parental Guidance: GLOBE INVESTOR enjoy seeing grown-ups official trailer Take it from Einstein, it's all about looking ridiculous. compounding Seniors, meanwhile, can chuckle along with Artie’s bewilderment over such MOST POPULAR VIDEOS » phenomena as tofu, Twitter and kids’ baseball games designed to end in a tie. Alice stands as the mid-generation audience’s representative here – she gets hives just thinking about her boisterously vulgar parents. In an early scene, she offers some helpful advice to her trio of coddled kids – the perfectionist 12-year-old Harper (Bailee Madison), timid, stuttering eight-year-old Turner (Joshua Rush) and Barker (Kyle Harrison Breitkopf), a five-year-old hellion with a trouble-making imaginary NEWS NEWS friend. B.C. teacher suspended Politician attacked after after showing risque allegedly raping a Unable to bear the thought of exposing the kids to her parents, Alice makes an Christmas video to woman in India excuse to come back home early from her planned sexy time with hubbie, so she Grade 4 class hangs around for a few more scenes. Predictably, Artie’s and Diane’s old-school, carefree/careless parenting style is at odds with her neurotically precious house rules, which include “three put-ups” for every “put-down” and a ban on the words “don’t” and “no.” When the family goes to a restaurant, it’s “Pan-Asian,” not Chinese, and the restaurant’s owner (Gedde Watanabe) is a silly gent who says “Oy vey” and believes that Barker’s imaginary kangaroo friend is real. NEWS LIFE Brazilian woman Close-up with a cougar: As well as a meditation on changing generational customs, Parental Guidance is a auctions off her B.C. man snaps photos reminder of all those things that we have in common, especially below the belt. virginity to care for of elusive wild cat Artie gets hit in the crotch by both a water gun and a baseball bat (he counter- ailing mother strikes by projectile-vomiting his chili dog). Later, Barker urinates from the top of a ◀ ● ● ▶ half-pipe at a skateboarding event, causing cameo star Tony Hawk to wipe out in a pee puddle. There’s also a touching scene as grandpa sings a song to help his constipated grandson squeeze one out in the men’s room at a baseball game. HIGHLIGHTS converted by Web2PDFConvert.com Director Andy Fickman, who previously made the cross-dressing basketball comedy She’s The Man and the Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson comedy The Game Plan, follows Crystal’s lead as the comedian riffs through scenes with a glazed, mock- incredulity, tossing out one-liners as if listening to some private Catskills rhythm track. 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