Any romantic comedy that can work in a murdering barber can't be all bad.
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03/25/04
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
Whenever `Jersey Girl' threatens to turn into `One Ben and a Baby,' Smith saves it with a good gag or clever line.
03/25/04
Overall too bland to hold our interest.
03/25/04
Top Critic…in the same way that Smith refers to Bennifer’s disaster Gigli, as 'totally watchable', this one might fall under the same backhanded classification.
03/25/04
The Jay and Silent Bob fans may weep, but for pretty much everyone else, there's cause to rejoice.
03/25/04
The movie is just Baby Boom with a guy, tossed with some Jerry Maguire and bits of a zillion other movies Smith has probably trashed on his Web site.
03/25/04
It’s nice to see a screen male get lessons in being sensitive, but Ollie’s emotional makeover just doesn’t wash.
03/25/04
Affleck's in his element.
03/25/04
An enjoyable slice-of-life drama that offers a couple of hours spent in the company of people whose lives are recognizable from your own.
03/25/04
Looks like a moviemaker stretching in the wrong direction.
03/25/04
It's so merchandisable that I look for a direct-to-video sequel, Jersey Kidz, to hit the shelves next year.
03/25/04
Despite all indications that he would make a fun drinking buddy, Ben Affleck, teen idol, Oscar-winning screenwriter, can't act his way out of a paper bag.
03/25/04
Jersey Girl does have two reasons to see it, and their names are Liv Tyler and George Carlin.
03/25/04
Kevin Smith has made a movie so false and blatantly icky that it's the film equivalent of making goo-goo noises and chucking a baby under the chin for 103 minutes.
03/25/04
Top CriticAffleck is modest and engaging, which keeps the movie out of Gigli territory. But it's close.
03/25/04
Smith's story is like a nightmare amalgam of decades of single-dad sitcoms: mawkish, cloying, and essentially bogus.
03/25/04
A mess, but forced to carry the rest of this too-saccharine but sometimes amusing film based on the personal experiences of scruffy, offbeat director Kevin Smith, Mr. Affleck has his moments.
03/25/04
for every manipulation Smith puts us through he wins us back with offbeat heart
03/25/04
Although the story is fiction, the emotions are real.
03/25/04
Festooned with bits of stale child-rearing slapstick and mawkish sentimentality, Jersey Girl is the sort of movie well-meaning movie people make when they begin to feel guilty about the level of success they've attained.
03/25/04
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