Top Ten Movies about Parenthood #9

So What to Expect When You're Expecting was more of a cute, warm, and fuzzy approach to parenting, and although the cute, warm, and fuzzy parenting films are the more preferred ones to watch, a brother can't deny that there are some movies with examples of pretty crappy parenting!  Although some of these movies can appear bleak and can sometimes be borderline depressing, I feel that viewing them is important because it exposes the viewer to what some of the consequences are when a parent is not doing his/her job right.  if only they made a biopic about the childhood of the Kardashians!

Mama

Victoria and Lilly have what you would call a hard knock life! At a young age their mother passed away because of the father doing something stupid, and instead of turning himself in and trying to make a better life for the girls he instead makes plans to kill them.  But no fear, his murderous intent was stopped by floating skinny old women who looks like she has been rubbing poo all over herself, and who has a mouth the size of Steve Tyler’s.  Although the children were now lost and abandoned by their biological father, this new entity took them in and made them her children, and also provided them a good diet of cherries, and enough of them to clean out a crohns patient.  So with this new mother to love them, and this new cherry-diet giving them healthy colons, they seemed to have it made… grizzly Adams style.  Eventually the kids are found by their uncle and his punk-rock-child-hating girlfriend, and together they take them in and try to fix the damage that years of isolation had done to them.  This all sounds fine but their mother who took care of them in the woods is a jealous mother, like soccer moms, and she might not take kindly to the new parents.  I found this to be an interesting movie about parenthood, because the Mama creature isn’t such a bad person, quite the opposite, she’s just very protective of these two girls.  The problem is Mama is so protective that anyone who forms a relationship with the girls will be violated by this poopy skinned creature.  The moral of this story is that if you are too incredibly protective of your children, eventually you start killing everyone around you… makes sense.

4 out of 5

Top Ten Movies about Parenthood #10

Something new has happened to my wife and I!!  The Stork has decided to drop on by and present us with a baby boy, and I'm assuming he arrived by Stork, and that he wasn't created the way it was shown to me by Jack and Rose in Titanic.  I was going to go back to my African American roots and name him Demarcus, but then caved to a more Celtic name because it was just straight awesome, For Certain reasons lets call him D for short.  Now that my son is born it made me reflect back on some of the better movies out there with a central theme of Parenthood, and let me tell you there are a lot.  To narrow them down to only a few, I'm going to give you my top 10 Parenthood movies that I feel every parent needs to view at least once.

10.  What to Expect When You’re Expecting

Everybody wants a baby right now!!  Some are prepared, some are not, some want a baby, and some don’t give a crap, and then some are Jennifer Lopez.  The movie takes the Love Actually way of telling a story of pregnant women, meaning that there are several characters in different stories involved in some ways of having a baby.  Some of the stories are noteworthy and some are just unrealistically stupid, but the one that stood out to me the most is between my 2^nd love Elizabeth Banks and Ben Falcone.  Their story is one of a couple parents who desperately want kids but are unable, even though Banks owns a baby shop.  Despite all the trials/troubles they were finally able to get pregnant, and even though Ben’s dad gets his wife pregnant at the same time with twins and treat it like it's some kind of competition, Falcone and Banks are extremely grateful for their child, and treat him like he’s the greatest treasure on earth… I'm hoping that the baby they have in the movie is a boy because otherwise I would be sounding really stupid right now.

3 out of 5