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A note to Fonda: even thin, fabulous 67-year-olds shouldn't wear strapless gowns. It's scary.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The self-confident fatuity and condescension of the movie is offensive.
50
This is a gay men's movie whose primary function is to doll Fonda up like a drag queen and let her rip.
38
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
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
50
Village Voice by Jessica Winter
"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.
20
The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
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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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
As for Monster-in-Law, it's tripe on a plate.
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It's not hard to imagine the militant Jane Fonda of 1972 angrily denouncing Monster-In-Law as insulting Hollywood claptrap trafficking in regressive, reactionary, blatantly sexist gender codes. And she'd be right.
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Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
It's a hoot to watch Fonda cut loose and mix it up with J. Lo, even when the laughs turn mean-spirited.
30
Shrill, undermotivated, feature-length catfight.