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75An undemanding formula picture that's a lot of superficial fun and not much more.
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70It's not "On Golden Pond" by any stretch, but it is nice to have Fonda back in the fractious family way.
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50Stylistically a formulaic, middle-drawer television movie about intergenerational strife and forgiveness. Every plot turn is groaningly predictable. But at least the lead performances set off sparks.
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50There's a great movie to be made about the survivors of Woodstock Nation and their children. But in order to make that movie, you first have to respect the ideals of that generation enough to at least give them their due.
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Jun 7, 201250It also comes as little surprise that she (Fonda) knocks the part out of the park, even if the film around her leaves something to be desired.
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25Me, I'm a Johnny Rotten man, so this limp culture-clash comedy with a heart of patchouli just made me want to stab my eyeballs out.
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60Peace, Love and Misunderstanding has a place for everybody in its heart-of-gold band.
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30How long do you have to be gone to make a triumphant return to the screen, and how triumphant can your return be when all three movies are duds?
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40An incompetently structured film that pits hippies against squares with the usual wearying results.
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Jun 4, 201270May not be great cinema, but its broad, crowdpleasing qualities should make it a welcome night out for femmes.
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75Pop songs, beautiful bucolic scenery and the joy of watching Jane Fonda fizz in a fun role that looks like a no-brainer are elements that a skilled director like Australia's polished Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) blends with perfection.
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38It's like "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in the Catskills.
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25The fact that Grandma is played by Jane Fonda, flouncing around in natural fabrics, should tell you something. It should tell you there is no casting decision or character nuance or plot turn too obvious to indulge.
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50It's a great (if middle-of-the-road) family comedy to seek out.
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63A crowd-pleasing comedy that isn't going to win any awards for originality.
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40The only rewards, and they are real albeit insufficient, involve watching Jane Fonda in full cry and Catherine Keener in a quieter fullness of feeling.
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63A touchy daughter and her feely mom form the emotional axis of Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding, a touching, feeling, touchy-feely series of emotional encounters that generate much warmth in Bruce Beresford's balloon-light family comedy. If it were any lighter, it would float away.
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50Keener alone finds the truth between the lines of this routine affair. She can't do much about the lines she has to say out loud, but as all first-rate screen performers realize, words are only part of the story.
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50The script is so pre-determined it seems generated by a computer program, not human beings.
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55None of it quite works, but it seems Beresford did his damnedest to try to pull it off.
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Jun 6, 201250Olsen, so good in "Martha Marcy May Marlene," is stuck playing a judgmental scold, while Wolff waves a video camera around and insists he wants to be Werner Herzog.
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33So let's hear it for the giant wig of Pre-Raphaelite gray corkscrews planted on the noggin of Jane Fonda as a glamorous hippie grandma. The hairdo meets its match in the dull Ann Taylor togs encasing Catherine Keener: That's how you know Granny's daughter is an uptight lawyer.
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40Only the mighty Fonda cuts through the claptrap; the rest is just a long, predictable trip.
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60The saving grace to the utter predictability in Christina Mengert and Joseph Muszynski's screenplay is reasonably personable characters and spirited acting by director Bruce Beresford's cast.
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50What saves the film from being simply a schematic mother-daughter reconciliation drama is both the reluctance and prickliness that Catherine Keener brings to her character.