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The cast of "Parental Guidance" includes Joshua Rush (from left), Bailee Madison, Kyle Harrison Breitkopf , Billy Crystal and Bette Midler. | Twentieth Century Fox/Walden Media photo
In this scene from "Parental Guidance," Artie Decker (Billy Crystal, from left) realizes his grandsons Barker (Kyle Harrison Breitkopf) and Turner (Joshua Rush) Simmons have had too much sugar. | Twentieth Century Fox/Walden Media photo
Marisa Tomei (from left), Kyle Harrison Breitkopf, Bette Midler and Billy Crystal star in the comedy "Parental Guidance." | Twentieth Century Fox/Walden Media photo
"Parental Guidance" features Billy Crystal and Bette Midler as a couple whose old-school methods are challenged when they agree to baby-sit their three grandchildren. | Twentieth Century Fox/Walden Media photo
The cast of "Parental Guidance" includes Billy Crystal (from left), Kyle Harrison Breitkopf, Marisa Tomei and Tom Everett Scott. | Twentieth Century Fox/Walden Media photo
The schmaltz is piled on thick, and if the comedy were any broader it would require an IMAX screen. But still there’s something touching about how hard Billy Crystal and Bette Midler hustle to peddle the threadbare material that makes “Parental Guidance” a perfectly tolerable, …