Family

Comedy

Playing with Fire

Broken Road Productions

Nickelodeon Movies

Paramount Players

Walden Media

Paramount Pictures

United States of America

English

John Cena

Keegan-Michael Key

John Leguizamo

Tyler Mane

Brianna Hildebrand

Christian Convery

Finley Rose Slater

Judy Greer

Dennis Haysbert

Daniel Cudmore

Tommy Europe

Chris Webb

Brad Kelly

Lynda Boyd

Jessica Garcie

Kurt Long

Nova Ryzen Smith

Latonya Williams

Enid-Raye Adams

Mark Chavez

Jasmine Vega

Shelby Wulfert

Ash Lee

Darcy Hinds

Ieisha Auyeung

Marshall Bingham

Paul Potts

Nova

Kingsley

Andrea Libman

Kristine Wilson

Matt Lieberman

Dan Ewen

Allegra Clegg

Spencer Thomas

Kyle Strauts

Corry Glass

Devyn Dalton

Gerald Paetz

Leif Havdale

Luke Cormier

Steve Gray

Marny Eng

Perry Beckham

Chris Atkinson

Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle

Glenn Ennis

Grant Smith

Jason William Day

Rhys Williams

Rorelee Tio

Ronald Robinson

Neil Caldwell

Corbin Fox

Kathy Hubble

Trevor Addie

Guy Bews

Jeff Sanca

Geoffrey Doran

David Edgar

Alistair King

Sherri Thomas

Andy Kopetsch

Matt Reddy

Adriene Wyse

Steve Lamare

J.P. Bagshaw

Spencer Ennis

Tyson Esau

Mark Alexander

Nadine Sekora

Chris Cove

Jonathan Alan Abbott

Stuart Haggerty

Loree Cameron

Niall Fraser

Craig Jones

Gabriela Ceja Carrillo

Kelly Zombor

Maya Batten-Young

Jay Mitchell

Ramona Ramsay

Alex Martinez

Joshua Marcoux

Peter Wilke

Matthew Tichenor

Sean Oxenbury

Ray Wohlford

Dan Morrison

Lisa Van Velden

Joshua Kjorven

Katharina Brand

Daniel Parsons

Michael Leder

Jason Hawkins

Kieran Humphries

Darion Trotman

Leon Rivers-Moore

Monica Skipper

Jessica Yi

John Dale

Diane Schimpl

Mackenzie Smith

Ryan Monro

Leanne Currie

Leon Serginson

Robin Say

Mike Stroman

Troy James Sobotka

Sergio Petre

Nicholas Dent

Tony Hyland

Erez Nakagawa

Darlene Gazzola

Laura Livingstone

Patrick Neighly

Jussi Tegelman

David McIntosh

Nick Quinn

Cory Peters

James Kohne

Peter Pacula

Shane Kirr

David 'Pops' Fukakusa

Todd Hlagi

Rod Tigler-Wybrandi

Rodger Schultz

Daniel Pierce

Carl Choquette

SWITCH.

Paramount has proved themselves with ‘Instant Family’ and this year's ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’, showing they can really work some magic and create really funny, wholesome, heartwarming live action family films, and ‘Playing with Fire’ could have been in that bunch if it wasn’t so cheap and derivative. While Cena charms, the rest of the film isn’t that hot.
- Chris dos Santos

Read Chris' full article...
https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-playing-with-fire-put-out-this-flaming-mess

Perfectly harmless movie squarely aimed at kids, but I did manage to chuckle a few times even with the overacting. Also helps that I do genuinely like the cast, John Cena and Keegan-Michael Key. Nothing I'd be keen on watching again, but still was an okay time-waster. **2.75/5**

Kamurai

Decent watch, probably won't watch again, and can only recommend for younger audiences.

Nickelodeon has done some weird things, and putting together this cast is one of them.  It's a great cast, but it's not really what I could consider a kid's movie cast.

I don't think any kids would know Dennis Haysbert or Judy Greer, and I kind of hope they wouldn't know John Leguizamo, Keegan-Michael Key, or Brianna Hildebrand, but they might know John Cena if they know wrestling.

There is a lot of things that happen in this movie with very little happening at the same time.  It's actually a sweet (if ridiculous) concept, but for most of the movie there is very little weight to it other than laughing at the misfortune of these good civil servants.

A lot of the jokes are too "grown up" without being good, or too "kiddy" for me to enjoy.  I'm not saying it isn't funny for bubbles to fill a room, but context still helps (see "Just My Luck"), and using that as an example, there is actually a good sequence of misfortune right before the bubble scene that sets it up so I know they know how to do it, but they chose to do it another way.

For what should have been really good just came out decent.

Playing With Fire (2019) - Fire Hose Hijnks Scene (4/10) | Movieclips

Playing With Fire Movie Clip - Sparkle Pony (2019) | Movieclips Coming Soon

Playing With Fire (2019) - In Theatres November 8 - Paramount Pictures_1080p

Playing With Fire - Official Trailer (2019) John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key

Best Movies

Playing with Fire

Cast & Crew

Videos

Cast

John Cena

Keegan-Michael Key

John Leguizamo

Tyler Mane

Brianna Hildebrand

Christian Convery

Finley Rose Slater

Judy Greer

Dennis Haysbert

Daniel Cudmore

Box office

More Like This

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

Roxanne

Frequency

Solo

Turk 182!

Firefighters

The Nine Lives of Christmas

Love on Fire