Parental Guidance, written by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Lisa Addario, and Joe Syracuse and directed by Andy Fickman, features your basic comedy, humor, and family plot. But it's stinking hilarious! Yes, you get your basic crotch hits and bathroom humor, but there are so many un-cheap shots, that, in the end, the whole thing pulls together really well. The storyline, a forcibly retired baseball announcer and his wife agree to babysit their only daughter's kids for a few days, and learn quickly that the smart house and lifestyle the grand kids are used to is a whole new game for this set of grandparents, is old fashioned in a sense of entire plots. But the situations, humor, and approach to this change is very well done. And, for Billy Crystal, it was fabulous! I give the screenwriters my complete, (As they say), hats off. My entire family agrees that we are totally buying this movie when it comes out!
Rating: 4.5 stars
