It could have been longer. But make no mistake, “Parental Guidance” is a dog of a movie that stretches a half-hour’s worth of situation comedy into feature length. It’s mawkish ...

You really can make a bad family movie less terrible. The people responsible for “Parental Guidance’’ have done an honorable enough job, chiefly through casting. No, I don’t understand how ...

USA TODAY review: * ½ out of four Stars: Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei Rated PG; runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes; opens Christmas Day Parental Guidance marks one of those movies aimed at ...

If you’re going to sneak a pastrami sandwich into one movie this Christmas, make it “Parental Guidance.” All of the above puts Crystal and Midler in a comfortable place, rattling off a ...

Pic could yield reasonable returns as an inoffensive alternative to Oscar bait and epics, but even on those terms, "Parental Guidance" is not suggested. From a distance, strictly as a demographic ...

PG-13 movies, which recommend "parental guidance" for children under 13, are not supposed to show blood -- the "results" of violence, if violence is included. In the new research, parents were ...

while their parents (Marisa Tomei, Tom Everett Scott) go out of town for work. Problems arise when the kids’ 21st-century behaviors collide with Artie and Diane’s old-school methods.

and politics a movie has, the better. On this score, you could do worse than Parental Guidance, a family comedy with the same rating as its name. Just don’t expect the luxury of dozing off.

“Parental Guidance” is the sort of movie that can be pressed into service when school’s out, cabin fever hits, and everyone needs something to do. In that regard, Midler and Crystal are ...