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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Yet another decently made but utterly forgettable comedy. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: It's a perfect comeback vehicle for a 67-year-old actress -- light, safe, undemanding and sure-to-be commercial. It is also a fairly tedious, stupid picture, but you can't have everything. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: This isn't a very smart movie, rattling along as it does in the bright, superficial, meaninglessly expert way of too many modern romantic comedies -- and definitely of too many Jennifer Lopez comedies. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Monster-in-Law is a comedy without laughs and a catfight without claws. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: 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. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: A slapstick chick-flick that flirts with a real theme before degenerating into the tale of two women playing sadistic tricks on each other. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This really plays a like a really bad sitcom from forty years ago. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Why Fonda chose this embarrassing project for her first film in 15 years is, as they say, a puzzlement. She's the best thing in it; at times, it seems she's the only thing in it. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Monster-in-Law proves two things: Jane Fonda can still act and Jennifer Lopez still can't. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Monster-in-Law has a hard enough time justifying its antagonist's monstrosity. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: What do socio-economic differences, career discrepancies, basic incompatibilities and a teenage wardrobe on a thirtysomething matter when there are movie tickets to sell? Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: To boost this movie's rating to 'worth seeing' would make me feel like a publicist or simply a dope. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The phrase 'chewing the scenery' never made much sense to me (is this a phrase used in normal human conversation? Ever?), but I know it when I see it. And Jane Fonda gnaws it to the bone in Monster-in-Law. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: Monster-in-Law, is only saved -- by the skin of its teeth -- by co-stars, Jane Fonda and Wanda Sykes. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Had the script paid more attention to its characters' emotional details, this Monster could have been a ball. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Fonda joins a select sorority of mature, serious actresses made silly by the movies. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Monster-in-Law proves that the once intense Ms. Fonda is capable of laughing at the world in general and herself in particular. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: If the screening I attended is anything to go by, this is a gay men's movie whose primary function is to doll Fonda up like a drag queen and let her rip. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: For all the frenzied (and badly staged) I Love Lucy-style slapstick, the movie's core conflict is just a marketing concept, a fluffy showcase of dueling auras with nothing much at stake and nothing really imperiled. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The movie promises us a catfight. Instead it gives us mewling kittens. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Poor Jennifer Lopez. Despite star billing, she is but a spectator at Fonda's fireworks show. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Jane Fonda returns to the big screen in a comedy so one-dimensional and craven that it makes Meet the Parents look avant-garde. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Forgettable fluff. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Back to screenwriting school for somebody. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The experience of viewing this movie represents a one-way ticket into tedium and a forced 90-minute imprisonment with Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda, both of whom give performances that can charitably be called cringe-inducing. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Monster-in-Law fails the Gene Siskel Test: 'Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?' Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: 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. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's a one-joke movie, but we keep laughing because of the way the stars keep telling the joke. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Turns out Jane has come back to make a 95-minute mother-in-law joke. Scratch that, now I'm exaggerating. A joke is funny. A joke has rhythm and structure and timing and a punch line. This, by all evidence, is no joke. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: 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. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Lopez is treacly sweet to Fonda and finally attempts some tepid revenge about two-thirds of the way through. But too late: We've lost interest. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: This shrill, undermotivated, feature-length catfight between Jennifer Lopez's demure prospective bride and Fonda's unhinged prospective mother-in-law makes sure to underline, boldface and exclamation-point every plot turn and line of dialogue. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Essentially Meet the Parents redux with Fonda in the scarifying De Niro role. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: This Monster is ultimately one flat-footed beast. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: In a movie about diva-to-diva warfare, each diva is miscast. Read more