10/16: Mom and Dad

Yep. Still behind. Sue me.

10/16

Today's film was a lovely adventure with Nicolas Cage (isn't every Cage adventure lovely?), Mom and Dad. Oh, yeah Selma Blair's in it too, but let's be honest: Nicolas Cage eclipses all. I mean, just look at that lovable face?

Do like me and Google Nicolas Cage crazy. Trust me. You won't be disappointed. Also, if you're like me, you will now never hear Bullet with Butterfly Wings the same way again after seeing that meme.

Ya know, I could explain the plot to this movie, but c'mon now: it's a Cage vehicle. I think one sentence should adequately do it, just as it does most other Cage movies (save maybe Raising Arizona). Seriously though, try it: 

Con-Air: Idiots put dangerous criminals on a plane and, to everyone's amazement, said criminals take over said plane. 

Face/Off: Nicolas Cage and John Travolta trade faces. 

The Wicker Man: Nicolas Cage punches women and doesn't like bees. 

National Treasure: "I'm gonna steal the Declaration of Independence." 

See? Totally works.

ANYWHO, on to the movie at hand: Hysteria hits parents, they start killing their children. Bam. Done. 

The movie looks at the thought any parent has had at some point when their child is being a shit: man, I want to kill that kid. As parents going through their own midlife crises, Cage and Blair have certainly had their share of those thoughts.The movie is a dark comedy, exploring that dark thought as a reality. Cage is appropriately manic as easily the worst parent ever, and I'm not just talking his post-hysteria self; honestly, there's not much difference from how he was pre-hysteria. Maybe the hysteria isn't even his excuse and he just really wanted to kill his lippy teenage daughter and her little brother, who still isn't in school although he looks like he's about 12.

Mom and Dad is pretty hilariously dark, with some good kills and laughs at the ridiculousness of it all. I applaud the movie too for approaching the biggest question I had: if parents are killing their kids, wouldn't older parents (i.e. grandparents) also be killing their kids? This question is answered spectacularly in a killer fight to the death between Cage and his elderly father. Yes, that's just as amazingly crazy at it sounds. In case you're not hooked yet, I can assure you that this film provides plenty of fodder to add to the best sizzle reel on the internet: 

Seriously will never get old. Someone get on throwing some Mom and Dad in there.

Yeah, so basically this movie is just as stupid-silly (stupilly? Sillid?) as you should come to expect from anything Nicolas Cage agrees to do. It's fun, whacky, and you get to see Nicolas Cage destroy a pool table with a sledge hammer while wearing a Misfits shirt. Yep. Again, as amazing as it sounds.

Sadly, he doesn't get bees poured on him while screaming "NOT THE BEES," but, ya know, you can't win 'em all.

8/10