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75(Matthau's) is a truly magical performance: hilarious, unguarded and deeply touching.
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68They make a believable trio of siblings, but not even their combined wit can lift this script above the maudlin.
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67If you find her (Ryan) distinctive persona to be too irritatingly cute to bear, this mannered movie is likely to play like fingernails on a blackboard .
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63A lame, glossy and disastrously misconceived film about three ditsy sisters dealing with the death of their horrible father.
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63Imagine "King Lear" art-directed by Martha Stewart and you have Hanging Up.
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63Ends up being more about her hair (Meg Ryan's) than anything else.
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50More about continuing the legend of the irascible but lovable old man into the grave, if necessary.
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50Keaton doesn't have quite enough filmmaking savvy to balance the story's heart-wrenching and smile-coaxing aspects.
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50Meg's as cute as ever, but empty Hanging Up never connects.
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50Characters seem phony.
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50A flimsy sister act.
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50Ryan gives her standard, likeable performance.
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40This is essentially a glib soap opera whose main characters are two-dimensional cliches used as clotheslines on which to hang sitcom-level jokes.
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40It's hard to imagine anyone ---coming away from Hanging Up with any sense of revelation, soul-enlargement, or even the simple pleasure of a compelling tale well told.
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40It's hollow, forced and false.
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40This is basically a movie about one neurotic woman and her neurotic L.A. life. .
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40All the ingredients of a success--a stellar cast, a promising premise, a strong production team--but nothing comes together in satisfying fashion.
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38This is about Meg. Only about Meg. Meg in the Middle.
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30A chilly machine-tooled comedy.
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25Father-daughter relationship lacks impact.
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25Too screwy to be really funny.
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25So drippy it really should be hung out to dry.
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20That we are supposed to find something to admire in this callow crew is insufferable.
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20So hackneyed and so condescending to its potential audience (adult women) that even Lifetime might hesitate before running it.
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20Doesn't work as comedy or drama or anything in between.
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20Like people who compulsively giggle whenever they tell you bad news, the movie runs for cover in lame, comic shtick.
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20A shamelessly sappy family meller that bears the schmaltzy sensibility of Nora Ephron.
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20Essentially an extended cutesy session.
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20Not particularly sensitive or funny comedy-drama.
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0There is not one honest moment, not ONE, in Hanging Up.