Monster-In-Law

#1

Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/14/05 at 10:24pm

I actually liked a JLo movie! But in all honesty it was a Jane Fonda/Wanda Sykes movie IMO.
Funny film, it's not life altering, but I laughed the entire picture, which hasn't happened in a long time.
It's still a bit of a chick flick but the physical humor of Jane Fonda was great. And Wanda Sykes is perfect. Go see it!

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#2

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/14/05 at 10:26pm

Glad to hear it's good.
I love Jane and would like to see this movie.

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#3

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 7:27am

...any film with Elaine Stritch and Michael Vartan (can he be any more handsome?) is propably at least worth a look. I'm glad you liked it. Guess I'll have to go do some Vartan watching myself.

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#4

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 7:56am

I actually need a movie to see today, and this might just be it. I love Jane Fonda, and it would be a mindless break from all the arty stuff I usually go to see. I really don't feel like thinking today.

#5

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 8:22am

Ebert and Roeper DESPISED it, as I am sure I would.

#6

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 9:30am

Oh Jon, couldn't you at least try watching the first act?

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" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

#7

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 10:15am

STRITCH!
FONDA!
SYKES!

the rest of the movie was ass.

#8

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 11:23am

I saw a screening of this yesterday and thought it was very cute. Jane Fonda and Wanda Sykes were very funny. Nice beach scene with Michael Vartan running shirtless.

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#9

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 12:02pm

It came of so real because she improvised all her lines. She was there yesterday for a Q & A after the movie.

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#10

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 12:28pm

She is hystericaly funny. Love her. And I used t love her tv show.

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#11

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 12:28pm

I also saw the movie last night. It was ok, nothing special, but pretty funny. Ms. Sykes was indeed very good, and I enjoyed her throughout the movie. Mrs. Fonda is very good also, she was stunning in the movie, and also got many laughs.

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#12

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 12:45pm

Yes I have. And she said yesterday that it has already been cancelled.

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#13

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 2:00pm

That's too bad. I loved the episode where she gets a job as a hooker at the Chicken Ranch. I howled.

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#14

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 2:05pm

Doesn't the rest of the cast get credit for having to respond to Sykes's improvised lines? If her lines are improvised, so would theirs then have to be.

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#15

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 2:09pm

A once-in-a-lifetime event: Barbarella and J.Lo!

#16

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 2:27pm

She had a few scenes where her character would observe/listen to a situation and then make a comment to no one in particular, perhaps those were the improvised line scenes?

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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience..... Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash... Tallulah Bankhead

#17

re: Monster-In-Law

Posted: 5/15/05 at 4:21pm

Just got back from seeing it.

Fonda and Sykes were great. The rest of it was pretty terrible. * 1/2 out of ****.

I'll be cleansing my pallet this evening with "The Apple Tree", thank God!