{"id":27386,"date":"2018-01-18T20:32:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T01:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=27386"},"modified":"2018-01-18T20:33:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T01:33:50","slug":"mom-and-dad-2018-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/18\/mom-and-dad-2018-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom and Dad (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When a disease sweeps the area, all parents become crazed killers going after their offspring.\u00a0 In one house, a teenage girl and her little brother try to survive while their parents do all in their powers to kill them.<\/p>\n

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Written and directed by Brian Taylor, the insanity is something most familiar with his work will be going into this film looking forward.\u00a0 And it delivers.\u00a0 The film takes the simple premise of Anytown, USA and gives the parents of all children a need to kill their young instead of protecting them.\u00a0 This leads to some levels of \u201cwhat the fuck\u201d that is great and greatly entertaining.\u00a0 Most of the film centers on this one family, setting them up as a normal family with its own problems.\u00a0 The father is stuck in the dead-end job, the mother is bored halfway to death and looking for something to make her life feel fulfilling again, the teenage daughter is up to no good while rebelling against her parents in the usual ways, and the son is too young to understand what is going on.\u00a0 While they are the center of this, they seem to be part of the last few to be affected as the viewer is shown what happens around them and not to them just yet.\u00a0 The film takes the premise and cranks it to 11 to make it a true Taylor film and give Nicolas Cage a part he was born to (over) play.<\/p>\n

The cast of \u201cMom and Dad\u201d is composed of the aforementioned Nicolas Cage as the Dad, Selma Blair as the Mom, Anne Winters as they daughter, Zackary Arthur as their young son, and many more.\u00a0 Cage and Blair have the meatiest, craziest parts.\u00a0 They start off as a normal couple with normal issues trying to find happiness, something most people, parents or not, can connect with.\u00a0 They play their parts well, with restraint even.\u00a0 That is until the insanity gets to the level where most would expect it to and then keeps going up.\u00a0 Cage plays the crazed father very well, a part seemingly meant for him and his usual unhinged acting that has been kind of a signature and something his fans know and love.\u00a0 Here he gets to go really nuts and ham it up in a way that makes sense and is ridiculously entertaining.\u00a0 Playing with him, Selma Blair gives a similarly crazy performance that works well and ties in with him.\u00a0 She also adds a lot of the emotional content of the film in a few scenes that will not be spoiled but are important in setting the story and its boundaries.\u00a0 Her acting in those scenes is superb.\u00a0 Then she pushes up the crazy and just goes for broke.\u00a0 This is all beautiful to watch.\u00a0 Playing against them, Winters and Arthur show more restraint and play the scared children of a crazed couple with the right amount and mix of fear, concern, and want for survival.\u00a0 Also, genre fans, keep an eye open for a delightfully nuts Lance Henriksen in a small but quite fun part.<\/p>\n

Considering the level of insanity and carnage in the film, the special effects are not as big and numerous as one would expect, but all of what is seen is very well done.\u00a0 These effects are done with talent and a knowledge of how to get the most impact from the least gore.\u00a0 That being said, it doesn\u2019t makes that the gore and blood is inexistent.\u00a0 A few scenes have some that is just gross and superbly effective.\u00a0 The film just doesn\u2019t rely on the gross factor to create it\u2019s insanity.<\/p>\n

\u201cMom and Dad\u201d is a nutter of a film that is highly entertaining and knows exactly what it is doing.\u00a0 Brian Taylor definitely knows how to craft insanity and how to make it fun to watch.\u00a0 Here the use to Nicolas Cage is genius and it makes the film just about perfect.\u00a0 For those who love watching Cage and love films that go balls to the wall crazy and violent.\u00a0 \u201cMom and Dad\u201d can remind of a different take on Cooties or a virus a la Mayhem that only affect parents.\u00a0 To most people with kids, it will even be relatable on some level as most people with kids have known how crazy they drive you but you can\u2019t do anything about it.\u00a0 Here the parents go all out in how they take that to the extreme.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fun, hilarious, insane watch that somehow makes complete sense when you watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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