The script stoops to cheap gags that undercut Affleck's efforts to sustain a believable character.
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06/23/08
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Jersey Girl (2004)
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Reviews Counted: 166
Fresh: 67
Rotten:99
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Consensus: Full of cloyingly sentimental cliches.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release: Mar 26, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $25,197,718
Synopsis: Breaking from his signature slacker-underdog films like CLERKS, MALLRATS, and CHASING AMY, Kevin Smith delivers the feel-good family movie JERSEY GIRL. While Smith's pert one-liners and wryly ironic sense of humor are clearly present... [More]
Starring: Ben Affleck, Raquel Castro, Liv Tyler, George Carlin
Director: Kevin Smith
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Reviews for Jersey Girl
Top Critic
It takes more than a couple of dirty one-liners to retain your edge in light, predictable fare.
09/29/06
Affleck is at ease in this down-to-earth drama in a way that he never seems to be in his action movies, and Castro seems like a genuine child instead of like a child actor.
09/25/06
Smith reinvents the romantic-comedy by making a film about a man in love with his kid.
07/22/06
In several ways Jersey Girl is more appealing than Clerks or Mallrats.... Nonetheless, it lacks the smart observational-humor edge and often thoughtful boldness -- and, most frustratingly, the promise -- of Chasing Amy or Dogma.
04/05/06
This is a movie about growing up and taking responsibility for one's actions and Affleck does a wonderful job.
12/06/05
A romantic comedy seriously marred by a clunky plot and a couple of characters that are hard to sympathize with.
07/20/05
Jersey Girl emerges as Kevin Smith's most polished effort to date, but not his funniest.
06/20/05
People who find Smith's work too brazen or fringe will really fall for this picture, likewise those easily pleased by this genre will enjoy. Hardcore fans may be very upset by Smith doing something so ordinary and even mundane.
04/02/05
In a strange way, it's both the most mainstream and the most personal movie Smith has made to date.
03/05/05
Jersey Girl is like that new Liz Phair album ... it sometimes sounds unmistakably like Kevin Smith but you never quite believe he could be so platitudinous and predictable.
01/27/05
Even as the critic in me raged against the clichés, I found a big old lump in my throat and blinked back a few tears.
12/31/04
Kevin Smith inserts enough of his special charm to make "Jersey Girl" a winner.
09/09/04
This is not the hard, cutting-edge Kevin. This is the soft and runny Kevin, trying (a little too hard) to work within the system. It's lame, man.
08/08/04
'Quizá sea reciclado de otras tantas cintas por el estilo, pero el toque de Smith aparece para hacer de este ejercicio un recomendable filme sobre el acto de maduración.'
07/20/04
It’s every bit as enjoyable as [Smith's] previous attempts, but much more mature. Kevin Smith has grown up, and he’s grown-up well.
07/20/04
[on Raquel Castro] If her career is half as successful as those of similarly talented kids Christina Ricci and Kirsten Dunst, she'll be quite the sensation.
07/11/04
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