Not even kids will want to see this John Cena movie
A team of smoke jumpers rescue a trio of kids from a burning cottage but with no parents or legal guardians around they’re forced to look after them at the station house for the whole weekend. High jinks and life lessons ensue.It's always difficult to review movies aimed squarely at children, especially those with no concessions to adult audiences.is the perfect case in point. For adults, Playing With Fire is almost objectively bad.
For kids, though, I'm not 100% sure that it is a total, well, misfire. It helps that I saw it in a public preview full of kids, and their reaction was quite telling. I generally find that, despite their reputation, kids tend to be much less disruptive in movies than adults, but it is also much easier to tell if they're not enjoying something by how restless they become.
The problem, though, is that for an alleged comedy, it elicited surprisingly few laughs from pretty much anyone in the audience. Kids tend to have a great appreciation for slapstick, and there was little about the over-the-top tomfoolery of John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key, and a catastrophically unfunny John Leguizamo that comes within a million miles of something like classic Looney Tunes cartoons. A timely reference, I know, but it still works.
Also, let's be honest, these reviews are aimed at adults, both in terms of whether you should take kids to a movie and just what kind of time you're going to have in the cinema alongside them. It's one thing having your kids sit through this nonsense; it's a much bigger ask for you to do the same.
If you really out of films this holiday season to take your little ones to, I suppose this will just about suffice – for them, if not for you – but however harmlessis and however much the stars of the film are generally pretty likeable and funny , it is absolutely a last resort kind of thing., it's not a particularly promising couple of months for kid-friendly films so that last resort may come well before you want it to.
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