JamesG
12-21-2012, 07:30 PM
Movie Reviews: The Guilt Trip
The Guilt Trip, starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen, is one of those amiable family comedies that, judging from the reviews, will probably have a more profitable run on the home-video market than it will in theaters.
Stephen Holden in the New York Times writes:
“It’s so comfy cozy that mothers and their grown children can watch it together without squirming.”
Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle observes that:
“if you expected some stereotypical riff on Jewish mothers, forget it. Rogen and Streisand’s name is Brewster in this, and they’re not identified in terms of any specific religion or culture.”
But Rex Reed of the New York Observer writes that he doesn’t:
“like to see the legendary star of Funny Girl and The Way We Were reduced to playing Molly Goldberg on a bad day.”
Actually, Betsy Sharkey in the Los Angeles Times seems somewhat disappointed that the characters are never defined as Jewish.
“There is something promising about the match-up of an old-school show-biz kid like Streisand with the modern, anxiously self-aware Rogen, but what could have been the multigenerational Thunderdome of Jewish Humor instead turns out bloodlessly disappointing.”
Ty Burr in the Boston Globe comments:
“The Guilt Trip is tripe, but it’s tripe that knows its audience. Seriously, take your mother. It’ll be a mitzvah [good deed].”
On the other hand, Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post calls the movie:
“a tedious clichéd schlep.”
-IMDB News
The Guilt Trip, starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen, is one of those amiable family comedies that, judging from the reviews, will probably have a more profitable run on the home-video market than it will in theaters.
Stephen Holden in the New York Times writes:
“It’s so comfy cozy that mothers and their grown children can watch it together without squirming.”
Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle observes that:
“if you expected some stereotypical riff on Jewish mothers, forget it. Rogen and Streisand’s name is Brewster in this, and they’re not identified in terms of any specific religion or culture.”
But Rex Reed of the New York Observer writes that he doesn’t:
“like to see the legendary star of Funny Girl and The Way We Were reduced to playing Molly Goldberg on a bad day.”
Actually, Betsy Sharkey in the Los Angeles Times seems somewhat disappointed that the characters are never defined as Jewish.
“There is something promising about the match-up of an old-school show-biz kid like Streisand with the modern, anxiously self-aware Rogen, but what could have been the multigenerational Thunderdome of Jewish Humor instead turns out bloodlessly disappointing.”
Ty Burr in the Boston Globe comments:
“The Guilt Trip is tripe, but it’s tripe that knows its audience. Seriously, take your mother. It’ll be a mitzvah [good deed].”
On the other hand, Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post calls the movie:
“a tedious clichéd schlep.”
-IMDB News