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TV Guide Magazine by Angel Cohn
Fans of the original may be disheartened by this glossier, action-packed version, but the brisker pacing and showy shoot-'em-up scenes are exactly what will appeal to the film's target audience.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
It's as if the director, Andrew Fleming, and the screenwriters, Nat Mauldin and Ed Solomon, set out to make a movie that would be mediocre in every respect. If so, they have completely succeeded.
50
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
Big, bloated and only intermittently amusing.
70
Fleming's more than passable, often extremely funny remake.
50
Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman
Brooks has long since mastered his whiny/neurotic persona, and Douglas does a passable version of giddy craziness. The young folks get lost in the shuffle, which leaves Suchet to steal the show with his fey, moist-eyed delivery. In this case, that's petty larceny.
80
Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
Subtle it's not. Still, the film, directed by Andrew Fleming ("Dick"), gets large and plentiful laughs where it's supposed to.
75
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
Relies on comic formula -- but does so with more than usual panache.
50
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Everything sly and low-key about The In-Laws, a 1979 comedy...is supersized and coarsened in Andrew Fleming's remake.
50
The 2003 edition written by Nat Mauldin and Ed Solomon and helmed by Andrew Fleming places the Douglas-Brooks combo inside a much more complicated if not quite as funny world.
40
Perhaps the oddest thing about The In-Laws is that it's aimed at an audience old enough to remember not only the original, but also how much funnier it seemed at the time.