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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: New Line Cinema
Salesrank: 3840
Released: August 30, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
After years of incredibly bad dates, Charlie (Jennifer Lopez) thinks she's met the perfect man...until she meets his possessive and merciless mother! Jane Fonda returns to Hollywood to play the worst mother-in-law ever who will do everything she can to break up the happy couple!
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurette
Description of Monster-in-Law (New Line Platinum Series):
As an esteemed television journalist put out to pasture by the networks and faced with the engagement of her son, Jane Fonda is fierce, funny, and ready to rumble as the title character in Monster-in-Law in a way that the rest of the film itself never really is. Jennifer Lopez, the film's other above-the-title star, is set to marry handsome, wealthy Michael Vartan but has one helluva time dealing with his insanely possessive mother. The result is pretty much what you'd expect--lots of snarls and slapstick and an easy, kisses-all-around conclusion, though it is surprising (and maybe a little disheartening) to watch Fonda throw herself into such disposable comedy with such gusto. Director Robert Luketic, who slept while Reese Witherspoon tottered off with his Legally Blonde, once again relies solely on the assembled talent: He leaves a high-wattage Lopez playing things a little too cute, a reedy Vartan looking visibly disinterested, and canny comedian Wanda Sykes making what she can--which, luckily, is a lot--of her role as Fonda's wisecracking personal assistant (the type of black sidekick role that's an indication of how creakily formulaic the film is). See it for Fonda, if you feel like it, then wish her a better engagement in the future. --Steve Wiecking
Monster-in-Law (New Line Platinum Series) Reviews:
jennifer lopez 
2009-11-04 - jennifer lopez all of the movies this girl makes sucks none of her movies make money
Hilarious! 
2009-08-16 - A must...this is one of my favorite comedies. Ms. Fonda is astounding and her wardrobe, OMG, yesss! I have always loved Wanda; the four stars worked very well together! I truly adored this movie and can watch it over and over for lots of laughter - I seem to catch something new :-)
Great job!!
M in Alexandria Va
Movie was better then expected 
2009-07-15 - I thought this movie was wonderful, I don't know why people did not like it. I thought it was romantic, funny, and a little bit of dark humor. I did not know what I would get going into the movie because people did not rate it the best. I would reccomend this movie to many people. I guess it is all in what you like, just don't go into the movie expecting what people just say and judge it your self I think people will be impressed.
Fun farce. 
2009-04-14 - I don't like Jane Fonda because of her political views. However, there is no doubt that she is a talented actress and in this lightweight farce, she pretty much is the show.
Fonda, an aging Barbara Walters TV personality type, is set out to pasture for being too old - and too crazy. Her sendup of a vapid talking head interviewing an even more vapid Britney Spears kind of pop tart is absolutely hilarious.
Fonda's son, Michael Vartan has found the girl of his dreams, played by Jennifer Lopez. Both Vartan and Lopez both get billing over Fonda, but their performances are lightweight.
Fonda, as the potential mother-in-law doesn't want her son to marry and sets out to derail the marriage.
Her attempts are hilarious and much of the script focuses on good comedy and not a little slapstick. Wanda Syke's plays Fonda's long suffering assistant. She's good, but the character isn't all that believable. Of course, that is true for all the characters.
Anyway, Fonda and Lopez engage in an all-out war and get a lot of laughs in the process.
This movie is strictly for fun. It has no message. Just lean back, munch some popcorn and enjoy, particularly Fonda's performance.
Jerry
Hilarious Romantic Comedy
2008-10-16 - Just hilarious, from start to finish. Loved Jane Fonda and her assistant it was like a comedy from the 60's Compare "Barefoot in the Park". The face plant was just so excellent.
