Because I Said So

Despite being rooted firmly in "chick flick" territory (with a high "cuteness" index), it has the capacity to please to viewers of both genders who appreciate the genre.

Keaton is so over-the-top, so loud and so physically animated that when Daphne develops a case of laryngitis mid-way through the movie, it's as if a neighbor's car alarm has finally been shut down. However, in those silent moments, when Daphne is communicating with notes, you realize how much you like this actress.

Formulaic romantic junk.

The film drags by, charmlessly, endlessly. Shrieking.

A sloppily made bowl of reheated chick-flick cliches.

It's hard to imagine how the movie year could possibly produce a more annoyingly stupid movie. It's so witless, broadly played and insulting to anyone's intelligence that it's almost as offensive, in its own way, as "Jackass: The Movie."

This film bespeaks a truly startling mistrust of the movie audience, and, what's more, a disrespect for the feature film medium. Yes, of course it was conceived as an unpretentious entertainment pitched mainly to girls and young women. Yet that doesn't explain the nightmarish quality of the finished product.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

A traditional Mother/Daughter relationship story for the screen. Not nearly as awful as critics out to be. Diane Keaton - great as ever with Mandy Moore.

As much as I love Diane Keaton and want to say that this is a worthwhile movie, I just can't bring myself to do it. The story has plot holes so large that a John Deer could fall in and never be found. The ridiculous sexual undertone is completely tacky and unnecessary. It's predictable, underdeveloped, and not at all clever. It's worth seeing if you happen to have Netflix, but it's not worth seeing in a theater.

There are to many good directors waiting for an opportunity to make great movies with great ideas, but Hollywood rather to make stupid movies like this one

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]