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Absolutely brilliant

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Oh dear! I couldn't understand how there could be so many negative reviews for a film with such a great cast but believe me...now i completely understand. This 'comedy' was severely lacking any laughs, i barely even chuckled and i have been told that i laugh at everything. The film was also unnecessarily raunchy at times, which felt very out of place with the tone of the film and it was just awkward to watch. There wasn't even a decent story line and i didn't feel like any real lessons were learned. What was the point? I also just didn't care about the characters, which is strange considering how much i love some of these actors (De Niro, Keaton, Sarandon and Williams). Positive points....the film and the actors looked nice. Disappointingly this just turned out to be a waste of an afternoon and i usually love these kind of movies. So i'd say avoid unless you are a huge fan of these actors and need to see every film they have ever been in.

Bad. Just bad. It tried to be funny but it just wasn't. I'm no prude & sexual jokes can be funny but all of them in this movie just came off as dumb and awkward. I didn't really like the characters either. Plus it was offensive to other cultures at times also. I like Katherine Heigel (sp) but she was so un likable in this movie. Bland, bitter & just whatever. I'm from Colombia and soooo much of this was just wrong. For one, its not that easy for Colombian citizens to get visas to leave the country. Two, Colombian adoptions aren't like in the US where the biological mother just signs her child over to a willing couple. Just doesn't happen. At any rate, don't waste your time. I watched the whole movie and still wonder why. Slow, long & lacking so much in every way.

A remake of a Swiss art film the plot is too familiar as often recycled for repetitive Hollywood ensemble comedy. Familiar names from Diane Keaton and Robert di Niro to Susan Sarandon and Topher Grace to Katherina Heigl and Robin Williams to Christine Ebersole and Amanda Seyfried display glorious comic emotion and elegant tight ensemble work in a story which outlandishly simulates the heavy emotive baggage those invited to a formal wedding ceremony choose to hide from or fling at each other. Even the public television recurring series DOWNTOWN ABBEY highlighted an episode with this plot line in the United States this spring and this one was much more tastefully done. The running time of this film seems the shortest of the multiple Hollywood films on the parallel premise suggesting the name stars could not mutually block in enough shooting time or the director could not come up with enough ongoing plot complications or whatever to keep the story going for at least an hour and three quarters. Considering some of the episodes not in fact suitable for a family rating the film does have merit for those interested in what is has to offer but lacks universal appeal.

I gave this film a 2. It was a disappointment on more than one level. They brought in Robin Williams, Robert DeNiro and Diane Keaton. Yet they still failed to deliver a quality film. There were several things in this film that I object to on a personal level. The writers treat the sons birth mother's Catholicism as something that is foreign to American society. Diane Keaton's tone in describing pre-cana as that "Catholic thing" was mildly insulting. I went through pre-cana and what the Catholic church is trying to do there is to make sure that the betrothed are ready for what is ahead. Obviously this Catholic tradition is something that is foreign to the writers.Years ago Mel Gibson characterized Hollywood in a very distinct way. The nature of this film gives his angry statements credibility.