Film Review: Mom and Dad

Film Review: Mom and Dad




The Ryans -- patriarch Brent (Nicolas Cage), mother Kendall (Selma Blair), snotty girl teenager Carly (Anne Winters) and obnoxious boy tween Josh (Zackary Arthur) -- would be the type of self-hating American household who had been in cinematic style in a time when Hollywood was running experiments at satire along the lines of "American Beauty" and "Very Bad Things."

This time was the 1990s, therefore the ostensible edginess this is fairly stale. For example, at an early scene, small Josh taunts the household's Asian housekeeper by speaking to her as"Charlie," the derogatory nickname American soldiers known as the Viet Cong, and -- get this! -- she gives back as good as she gets, crabbily shooting back,"I'm Chinese. Chinese isn't Charlie."

Ugh. Anyhow,"Mom and Dad" shortly shows its high concept: Each of the parents within its world go insane and try to begin murdering their children. The author and manager Brian Taylor shies away from no chance , including a shipping room scene where a woman starts crushing her newborn. As you can imagine, the homicidal frenzy provides Mr. Cage lots of chance to go him, and that, in this scenario, does not yield as much pleasure as you may have hoped.

Mr. Taylor was half of the leading team, together with Mark Neveldine, accountable for several hilariously crass and ridiculous films like "Crank" and"Crank: High Voltage." I assume that Mr. Neveldine was the humorous one of this duo, because turning his input, Mr. Taylor provides up nothing but glitchy editing and bad beats.

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