The message is timeless. Family matters. Tell people you love them. Despite its predictability, the movie works because it is completely without guile.
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11/10/06
Uncle Nino (2003)
23 %
Reviews Counted: 31 Fresh: 7 Rotten:24 Average Rating: 4.3/10
Consensus:
Critics say that despite a warm, well-meaning message about the importance of family ties, Uncle Nino is utterly corny and predictable.
Theatrical Release: 0000
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Pierrino Mascarino
Reviews
Nino acts like an Italian fairy-god-uncle... transforming this house into a home - where flowers thrive, violin music fills the air, and everybody eats dinner together.
07/01/05
It feels something like a made-for-TV movie that fell back behind the fridge circa 1982 and has been rotting there ever since.
03/05/05
A third-rate Robin Williams movie that didn't even have the decency to hire Robin Williams.
03/03/05
Top Critic
Shallcross fails to infuse the proceedings with the wit or distinctiveness necessary to lift it above the crop of its so many similar-themed predecessors.
02/26/05
Top Critic
Both movies have familiar and even hokey aspects, but they're also sincere rather than cynical, and there's something affecting about the very similar messages they're peddling.
02/18/05
Top Critic
Such a hamfisted effort that the ostensibly comic moments aren't nearly as funny as the sappily earnest serious parts.
02/18/05
There's a place for a movie like this--but it's really on the Hallmark Hall of Fame rather than in an auditorium you have to pay to get into.
02/15/05
Top Critic
An effortless heartwarmer that manages to be utterly corny but quite likable.
02/11/05
Top Critic
This is barely believable treacle, not helped by the fact that the characters don’t even rise to the level of cartoons, much less real people.
02/11/05
This is not my kind of movie, and I found myself feeling mighty restless by the end, or even halfway through, or even near the beginning, but objectively I know there are people who will embrace this movie.
02/11/05
Top Critic
The film -- and its characters -- are full of quirks. But it tries a little too hard, especially where the quirks are concerned.
02/11/05
Heartwarming is not always a bad thing. Consider this family film from writer-director Robert Shallcross: It's not only warm and fuzzy in all the right places, it's something that the whole family might actually enjoy.
02/11/05
It's the sort of fluff that may catch your eye during channel-surfing sessions, but it's hardly worthy of an outing and an open wallet.
02/11/05
Top Critic
It's like sitting down for risotto al Gorgonzola at a fine restaurant, hearing the can-opener in the kitchen and realizing that your chef's named Boyardee.
02/11/05
The characters are all clichés, the dialogue is abominable and every story point is radioed so far in advance that it should come with its own motorcade.
02/11/05
Its celebration of the importance of the family unit makes it a family film in the truest sense of the term.
02/11/05
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