Monster-in-Law

    Monster-in-Law
    2005

    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

    Recommendations

    • 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.

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