Hilariously funny. Good script, great acting and nice to see Jane playing her age and doing it tongue in cheek. This is a sit back, relax and laugh your face off movie...don't over think it...it's entertainment.

Charlie Cantilini (Jennifer Lopez) finally finds a good man Kevin Fields (Michael Vartan). However his mother Viola (Jane Fonda) is a monster-in-law from hell. After losing her TV job, Viola is sent spiraling into rehab. When she gets out, Kevin asks Charlie to marry him. Viola doesn't think much of the lowly Charlie, and schemes to break them up.

I like Lopez. The romance with Vartan is a little bland. However it's Fonda that really destroys this movie. She is suppose to be annoying, and she does it with gusto. She is so good that it annoys the hell out of me. I can't stand her character and I can't stand this movie. Mission Accomplish. I also can't stand the fake imaginary scenes. Vartan's character is annoyingly clueless momma's boy. I do like Lopez in this movie, and I'm willing to be a little easier on the grade. At least the two get into a fake slap fight. If only it was real.

When the versatile and simple Charlotte (Jennifer Lopez) meets the surgeon Kevin (Michael Vartan),she finds her Prince Charming. Meanwhile, his obsessive mother and famous anchor Viola (Jane Fonda) is replaced on her TV talk show and has a nervous breakdown. When she leaves the clinic, Kevin schedules a visit with Charlie to her mansion and unexpectedly proposes Charlie. Viola decides to plot a despicable plan to make Charlie crazy and call off their weeding. When Charlie discloses the scheme of her future mother-in-law, she pays her back for her malice.

"Monster-in-Law" is a hilarious underrated comedy, highly recommended for days of migraines, headaches or bad humor. In her return to the cinema industry, Jane Fonda "steals" the movie and has an excellent performance in the role of a possessive mother that does her best trying to avoid the marriage of her beloved son scaring her daughter-in-law. Jennifer Lopez is also great in the role of a sweet and hard worker woman, in love with her Mr. Right and threatened by a merciless paranoid mother-in-law. Wanda Sykes, Michael Vartan, Adam Scott, Annie Parisse and Monet Mazur complete the good cast of this funny movie. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "A Sogra" ("The Mother-in-Law")