Monster-in-Law Critic Reviews

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San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

A generational spectacle that's fun to witness.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

It's a hoot to watch Fonda cut loose and mix it up with J. Lo, even when the laughs turn mean-spirited.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites

By Hollywood standards, a movie carried with such gusto by a 67-year-old woman has to be considered a miracle. And I'm not sorry to say I enjoyed watching her do it.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

As for Monster-in-Law, it's tripe on a plate.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Carina ChocanoAdd Critic to Favorites

All I could think about while watching Jennifer Lopez prance through Monster-in-Law was how cool and poised she was in "Out of Sight."Read the full review

Washington Post | Michael O'SullivanAdd Critic to Favorites

Ultimately one flat-footed beast.Read the full review

USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

Doesn't make the movie worth watching -- even if you're monstrously bored.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

Monster-in-Law is appalling misfire of a comedy - a motion picture that takes a situation ripe for the blackest vein of satire and reduces it to a puerile and edgeless pile of gooRead the full review

Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites

Shrill, undermotivated, feature-length catfight.Read the full review

Washington Post | Stephen HunterAdd Critic to Favorites

So tame and limp, it may actually give mothers-in-law a good name.Read the full review

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