Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 163
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 137
While Jane Fonda steals the movie in her return to the screen, a tired script and flimsy performances make this borderline comedy fall flat.
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 35
While Jane Fonda steals the movie in her return to the screen, a tired script and flimsy performances make this borderline comedy fall flat.
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Average Rating: 3.2/5
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It's not unusual to see two women fighting over the same man in a movie, only this time it's his mother and his fiancée vying for his attention in this broad comedy. While Charlotte Cantilini (Jennifer Lopez), known to her friends as Charlie, has never had much luck in her love life, one day her ship arrives in a big way when she meets Kevin Fields (Michael Vartan), a doctor who is charming, handsome, and wealthy. Kevin also has a famous mother, Viola Fields (Jane Fonda), who has enjoyed a long
May 13, 2005 Wide
Aug 30, 2005
$82.8M
New Line Cinema
All Critics (174) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (141) | DVD (22)
This really plays a like a really bad sitcom from forty years ago.
In a movie about diva-to-diva warfare, each diva is miscast.
Fonda and Sykes are made for each other, and their incessant bickering and arguing are about the only things that give Monster-in-Law any life.
Trust me, Monster-in-Law not only makes more sense as an Unforgiven-ish parable of old-school Hollywood feminism's wrath, it's worlds more fun.
It's a crude, obvious comedy, which occasionally clunks, but it's often very funny, as well as being a really shrewd bit of popular entertainment.
Back to screenwriting school for somebody.
Fonda is terrific playing the mess that is Viola. Her introduction tells you everything you need to know about her: after learning she has been fired she attacks a vacuous Britney Spears clone on air. It never reaches that kind of mean-spirited fun again.
The catfight battle between Fonda and Lopez barely reaches a simmer before all is forgiven and the audience is dismissed from their seats.
Predictable romantic comedy...not much here for kids.
Jane Fonda, playing the title character, immerses herself in the aging dragon-lady stereotype.
For a revenge comedy to work, the villain should be so despicable that you relish those moments when the victim turns the tables and gets even. This flick is misleading because the title character is not really mean, but rather a sympathetic figure.
In the American tradition of diva moms from hell.
In this casting match-up, Lopez is totally outclassed.
For such a rich premise, Kochoff produced a fairly lackluster script.
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Thank God for that cast...
Bad return of Jane Fonda to the cinema. Monster-in-Law have a terrible and tired script. A poor work of Richard LaGravenese. Rotten.
June 23, 2011Super Reviewer
Some of the scenes were funny between Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda. But, sadly just another average chick flick where you know the ending by the start of the film.
June 23, 2011Super Reviewer
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