Movie Reviews: Mad Money

A film titled Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes sounds like the kind that should draw just about every female moviegoer to the box office. But critics suggest that's not likely to happen. Even the female critics have few kind words for it. Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News asks, "Why would so many accomplished women waste their time and talents on a movie as counterfeit as Mad Money?" Claudia Puig in USA Today comments, "This lifeless comedy and uninventive caper feels as if it were cobbled together at a studio's obligatory consciousness-raising diversity seminar." As for the male critics, most of them post implied warnings to their gender to avoid it. Kyle Smith in the New York Post writes that director Callie Khouri "achieves a level of overall drabness suggesting Saturday afternoon at your local Wal-Mart, in whose $2.99 bins you will soon be finding the DVD of this movie." CORRECTION:
In Thursday's edition of Studio Briefing we suggested that Warner Bros.' decision to release I Am Legend on HD DVD on April 8 appeared to be inconsistent with its announcement that it was abandoning the HD DVD format. In its original statement, however, Warner Bros. indicated that it would continue releasing films in both the Blu-ray and HD DVD formats through April.

18/01/2008