Synopsis
Office temp Charlotte Cantilini thinks she's found Mr. Right when she starts dating gorgeous surgeon Dr. Kevin Fields. But there's a problem standing in the way of everlasting bliss: Kevin's overbearing and controlling mother, Viola. Fearing she'll lose her son's affections forever, Viola decides to break up the happy couple by becoming the world's worst mother-in-law.
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Cast
- Jennifer LopezCharlie
- Jane FondaViola Fields
- Michael VartanDr. Kevin Fields
- Wanda SykesRuby
- Adam ScottRemy
- Monet MazurFiona
- Annie ParisseMorgan
- Will ArnettKit
- Elaine StritchGertrude
- Stephen DunhamDr. Paul Chamberlain
- 75
Rolling Stone
It's a hoot to watch Fonda cut loose and mix it up with J. Lo, even when the laughs turn mean-spirited. - 50
Village Voice
"Legally Blonde" director Robert Luketic bumbles along with typically clumsy blocking and framing, and the misogyny inherent in the three-ring spectacle of bitch slaps, barbiturate covert ops, and wedding plan hysteria does rankle. - 50
L.A. Weekly
This is a gay men's movie whose primary function is to doll Fonda up like a drag queen and let her rip. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
As for Monster-in-Law, it's tripe on a plate. - 40
Empire
A note to Fonda: even thin, fabulous 67-year-olds shouldn't wear strapless gowns. It's scary. - 38
ReelViews
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 goo - 30
Variety
Shrill, undermotivated, feature-length catfight. - 20
The Hollywood Reporter
A deeply dispiriting movie, not just because it is grindingly bad but because Jane Fonda actually chose this for her comeback after a 15-year absence from the screen. But it's worse than that. Fonda, one of the best actors of her generation, is downright awful in a role she could have -- and probably should have -- sleepwalked through.