While this is hardly one of the great films of our time, we watched it on PPV and enjoyed it. I found myself laughing out loud at some of the gags, and I generally do not like slapstick humor. Jane Fonda went over the top, but in a way that was fun to watch, if for no other reason but to see how she could top that last scene-chew. JLo did a fine job of portraying a woman in a tough situation, and I can appreciate the sleepless nights part of the film. And Elaine Stritch is probably the only actress I can think of that can out-tough Jane Fonda. It would have been nice to see a little more on the relationship between the happy couple, but that wasn't really the point of the film in the first place; it was an assumption against which the conflict played out. And for those of us who are lucky enough to have the absolute opposite of a monster-in-law, I could sympathize with both Lopez and, once Stritch was on the scene, Fonda. Was it Oscar material? Hardly. But it was a good laugh for our family and that's worth something.
Review of Monster-in-Law
