In a strange way, it's both the most mainstream and the most personal movie Smith has made to date.
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03/05/05
Jersey Girl (2004)
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Reviews Counted:167
Fresh:68
Rotten:99
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Full of cloyingly sentimental cliches.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Breaking from his signature slacker-underdog films like CLERKS, MALLRATS, and CHASING AMY, Kevin Smith delivers the feel-good family movie JERSEY GIRL. While Smith's pert one-liners and wryly... [More]
Starring: Ben Affleck, Raquel Castro, Liv Tyler, George Carlin
Director: Kevin Smith
Reviews for Jersey Girl
Jersey Girl is like that new Liz Phair album ... it sometimes sounds unmistakably like Kevin Smith but you never quite believe he could be so platitudinous and predictable.
01/27/05
Even as the critic in me raged against the clichés, I found a big old lump in my throat and blinked back a few tears.
12/31/04
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10/06/04
Top CriticKevin Smith inserts enough of his special charm to make "Jersey Girl" a winner.
09/09/04
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08/16/04
Top CriticThis is not the hard, cutting-edge Kevin. This is the soft and runny Kevin, trying (a little too hard) to work within the system. It's lame, man.
08/08/04
'Quizá sea reciclado de otras tantas cintas por el estilo, pero el toque de Smith aparece para hacer de este ejercicio un recomendable filme sobre el acto de maduración.'
07/20/04
[on Raquel Castro] If her career is half as successful as those of similarly talented kids Christina Ricci and Kirsten Dunst, she'll be quite the sensation.
07/11/04
Kevin Smith's safest movie to date, but italso his most adult, an attempt to move beyond the comic book fantasy world in which he has lived for so long and try something new.
07/08/04
Surprisingly unannoying...
06/11/04
A delightful dramedy that is a huge departure from the Jay and Silent Bob antics of his earlier work.
04/24/04
It’s Smith’s embracing of romantic comedy conventions that’s a letdown.
04/22/04
A more unbearable film than Gigli.
04/20/04
It feels like one of cinema’s most brutally funny voices is choking on his own syrup.
04/17/04
The gags involve such things as Ben Affleck struggling to change a diaper. If this hadn’t been done so throroughly in Three Men and a Baby, it might have been funny.
04/09/04
The problem is the subject matter: a cozy ode to fatherhood with a maudlin audacity that would make Dickens blush.
04/09/04
Like in all of Smith's films, the dialogue is wonderful and realistic, but also consistent with Smith's other films, there are times when the momentum doesn't hold up.
04/09/04
The film weaves an intriguing story about a single dad.
04/08/04
... a lightweight, but enjoyable valentine to family values and the Garden State
04/08/04
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