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Release Date: May 13th, 2005

Running Time: 1 hr. 35 min.

U.S. Box Office: $82,931,301

Rating: PG-13 for sex references and language.

Director: Robert Luketic

Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda, Michael Vartan, Wanda Sykes, Adam Scott

Critics Reviews: 5 out of 10

Reelviews 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. Forgive me for a moment if I bemoan the lost potential here. Give a project like this to Danny DeVito, whose War of the Roses existed in not dissimilar territory, and the possibilities are endless. James Berardinelli

The Boston Globe The movie lets Fonda -- who hasn't acted on film in 15 years -- skewer her usual seriousness. She's accepted a part that calls for her to choke, slap, poison, kick, lie, punch, curse, shriek, and be generally loathsome, all while looking more fabulous as the movie wears on. She's a riot. Wesley Morris

San Francisco Chronicle There's something about "Monster-in-Law" that wants to be seen. It's a crude, obvious comedy, which occasionally clunks, but it's often very funny, as well as being a really shrewd bit of popular entertainment. Its appeal resides in a lot of things, not the least of which is a sophisticated awareness of what an audience brings to it. Mick LaSalle

USA Today Two of Jennifer Lopez's earlier movies, The Wedding Planner and Maid in Manhattan, and now Monster-in-Law are concerned with idyllic unions. Even Enough, in which she played a bride who takes revenge on her abusive husband, began with a seemingly ideal marriage. Is she working out her much-publicized relationship issues on film? Are these wish-fulfillment fantasies? Do we even care? Claudia Puig

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Monster-in-Law Official site of the movie starring Jennifer Lopez as a woman who reconsiders her engagement to the perfect man because of his troublesome mother.

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