The In-Laws: Critic Reviews

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

42

While much of The In-Laws feels stuck in time, what really does it in is the script's boring, modern sensitivity to fatherhood, and bonding with one's kids.
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A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

20

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.
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Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

50

If it's hot this weekend, and your air conditioner is broken, you could do worse. Otherwise, audience annulment proceedings will probably begin in a week or two.
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Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

Funny, if a bit broad.
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Ann Hornaday Washington Post (Top Critic)

Its laughs are sweet-natured, and Heaven knows the lead players earn every one.
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Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

38

A vehicle for Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks that manages to bring out the most annoying aspects of their respective personalities.
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Michael Atkinson Village Voice (Top Critic)

Hits every wrong note and trips on every chair leg.
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Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)

50

Big, bloated and only intermittently amusing.
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Eric Harrison Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

34

A flat-footed remake.
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Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

67

No genre is as geared to the bottom line as comedy. For movies of this ilk, that bottom line is simply, 'Is it funny?' And funny The In-Laws definitely is.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

The remake knows the moves but lacks the recklessness.
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Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

The In-Laws, like too many movies these days, takes a clever little idea and all but pounds it into the ground.
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Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

Formulaic and unnecessary.
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Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

50

The remake has a lot of energy; it just doesn't have a point.
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Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

42

It's just another Hollywood comedy. There's nothing terribly wrong with that, but there's nothing terribly right with it either.
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Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

40

Flat, obvious and painfully unfunny, The In-Laws offers solid evidence that some movies shouldn't be remade.
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Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

Humdrum direction fails to elevate an already bankrupt idea from its relentless doldrums.
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Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)

Amazingly, the two versions have hit the casting bull's-eye twice in 24 years to provide superior entertainment.
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Robert Koehler Variety (Top Critic)

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Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

50

A strenuous attempt to recycle a vastly funnier minor classic.
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Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

60

The new In-Laws never captures the cheesy anarchy of the original, something worth shooting for if you remake a comedy classic. But at least it's funny enough that we can't call it a sacrilege.
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Susan Walker Toronto Star (Top Critic)

60

If you've ever enjoyed watching Bergen, Brooks or Douglas, or ever been to a wedding you wish you'd missed, The In-Laws will make you laugh.
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Ray Conlogue Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

75

The In-Laws is successful on the level of light comic entertainment.
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