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The Parenting Reviews
The result is brilliantly high-energy and camp, but with a heartfelt message at its core.
The Parenting sets itself apart as a unique film. The demon aspect is fun without being overly scary or gory, allowing this to be enjoyed by people looking for a mild scare to accompany their laughs.
Who doesn’t like actors having fun for 90 minutes? I certainly do, but Kent Sublette’s screenplay is chock-full of some of the most egregious horror comedy tropes that it becomes easy to figure out what will happen as the film progresses.
The film’s main problem is its completely generic narrative. If this were an out-and-out spoof then this would be less of a problem, but it actually doesn’t go heavy on the gags, meaning that its only half-funny, half-interesting and also only half-scary.
The Parenting fizzles as horror and as comedy. And if you’re still considering watching just for the Brian Cox nude scene? Don’t bother. It’s probably a stunt butt.
This movie proves that a whole bunch of talented actors can make a somewhat boring film.
While the broad comedic style of The Parenting won’t work for all audiences, others will likely find its proud goofiness refreshing in a time when feature-length comedies are consistently undervalued.
The Parenting was an unexpected delight of a comedy horror movie that provided a perfect balance of camp and possession.
A brisk, clever, saucy, and yes, campy piece of entertainment that will keep you smiling almost all the way through its hour-and-a-half runtime, with the much-appreciated bonus of an endearing queer romance.
Once it gets going, it does manage to entertain in a goofy, throwaway kind of way. If you're in the mood for something light, and you don't mind uneven pacing or hit-or-miss jokes, this movie is fun enough for a 90-minute escape.
Not my cup of schlock.
There’s something oddly charming about watching a cast this stacked let loose in a low-budget, ’80s-style horror-comedy that feels like a 90-minute SNL sketch. I didn’t love it, but I enjoyed it, almost in spite of myself.
Director Craig Johnson gives up the ghost of a promise the movie had going for it.
Despite being well worth seeing for its formidable ensemble of seasoned actors, The Parenting lacks both subtext and perspective to elevate itself beyond being merely a familiar, inherently basic comedy-horror exercise which ends up hemorrhaging itself...
This horror comedy has both scares and laughs–or at least eye rolls–but it's hard not to feel that its stellar cast is squandered.
Even with its off-the-beat humor and familiar family comeuppances, The Parenting provides enough charm, laughs, and ghastly nonsense to make it an entertaining movie.
It’s a dysfunctional mishmash of stuff that makes us laugh in fits and starts, which isn’t often enough.
The story is slight but the laughs are genuine in Craig Robinson's The Parenting. That it all works as well as it does is mostly thanks to a very game cast of talented actors.
There's a sketch comedy vibe to the film (credit or blame writer Kent Sublette's work on SNL), but the ensemble cast is stacked. Stand-out is Flynn, who displays surprisingly great comedic chops. Fans of Summoning Sylvia or Slay will enjoy this
As a comedy, it stops being funny and as a horror it never starts being scary with Johnson’s direction far too drab and lifeless for something so cartoonish and schlocky. Big swing, bigger miss.