Monster-in-Law

Jane Fonda is back after 15 years of not making any movies and she gives a very good performance as the titular character in Monster-in-Law. A romantic comedy directed by Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde and Win a Date with Tad Hamilton) and written by first timer Anya Kochoff, the movie gets very good to ok performances by the actors, and there are some funny parts, but overall it fails and is only being talked about because Miss Barbarella is back on the big screen.

Jennifer Lopez plays Charlie, a dog-walker (among several other jobs) and super nice girl who falls for Michael Vartan's Kevin Fields, a super nice guy who happens to be a very rich surgeon. After their first date, the movie jumps 2 months in the future and their moving in together, and right away Kevin takes Charlie to meet his mom, a super crazy TV show host who got fired for a younger girl and had to go to a psychiatric facility for a while but is now back home. Jane Fonda plays Viola Fields perfectly, getting all crazy for nothing or sometimes justified like when Kevin proposes to Charlie in front of her on their first meeting.
From there on is up to Viola to stop the wedding at any cost and turn Charlie crazy so they don't get married because she doesn't deserves him since she's way down in the class system.
Fonda is good though annoying at times, Jennifer Lopez is ok though not as good as in her previous comedies, probably because the story is kind of split between her and Fonda so they both got lots of screen time. Michael Vartan is only there to smile and tell them he loves them.

The rest of the supporting characters are better than the leads, with Wanda Sykes stealing the show as Ruby, Viola's personal assistant. And yes, she steals the show, but I feel that she's still wasted in the movie. We all know Wanda is one of the funniest comedians these days but all she does here is deliver one liners every ten minutes or say "shit" whenever something over the top happened. It's sad, but she reminded me of the black guy explaining why was he in there in Not Another Teen Movie. Same here, Wanda was the token black woman.
Also supporting and kind of funny were Adam Scott and Annie Parisse as Charlie's gay friend Remi and best girlfriend Morgan, respectively, and totally wasted and with only 2 or 3 lines was Will Arnet as Kevin's best friend Kit.

Jane Fonda is back and I couldn't care less, specially if she's going to keep doing movies like this that are funny because of its supporting players, but that overall have nothing memorable about them and are impossible to recommend. Still, props to the producers for not going into a lower level getting Jennifer Lopez's hubby Marc Anthony a part which would've make this the biggest piece of crap ever.