If only someone had taken away that disastrous third act we'd have one of the better mainstream films dealing with the impossible societal demands put upon gay parenting yet made. No such luck, though.
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New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Not even Rupert Everett is able to breathe life into soapy Thing.
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Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
Baltimore SunAnn Hornaday
Of Madonna's considerable talents, making the camera love her isn't one: The screen seems to go dead every time she's on it.
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Boston GlobeJay Carr
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Never having decided whether it wants to be comedy or a sentimental hand-wringer, it tries to be both and winds up being neither.
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Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A garage sale of gay issues, harnessed to a plot as exhausted as a junkman's horse.
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Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The movie has a well-meaning message about love and loyalty being the bedrock of real family values, but its good intentions sag as the story trades its air of mischievous comedy for trite sentimentality, arbitrary plot twists, and enough maudlin melodramatics to sustain a tabloid TV series.
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Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
The whole thing becomes a very rickety and contrived tearjerker.
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Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
A resolutely awful film, it makes you want to swear off sex, comedy, Rupert Everett movies, flowers, yoga, children, roast beef -- many of the best things in life, in fact.