Anyone think they are going way overboard with In-law movies lately? We get it, in-laws never like the new addition to the family. Seriously, this has always been a genre unto itself, and sometimes its used smartly, other times, its just stale. I started a thread over at KJ before the transfer that was lost, about the Ashton Kutcher remake GUess Who('s Coming to Dinner). The roles are reversed of course, and rather than Poitier being a balck man who is introduced to uptight white parents (Hepburn and Tracy) Kutcher's going to be a white guy that meets, Bernie Mac. Ugh, at least the first time there might have been some groundbreaking discussions, 40 years later its getting tired.

That and now we've got Monster in Law with the always stale J.Lo and Jane Fonda. This one doesn't really even pretend to have the race thing doing for it thanks to J.Lo's complete lack of desire to address anything mildly real that might affect her manufactured career (Note: See Maid in Manhatten). There's an article about Fonda making a come back in Monster-In-Law in the times today.

I blame Meet the Parents
How many of these bad comedies are we going to be subject too? Why are they all comedies in the first place? Make them stop! Please?

The Originator

yay!! i love Son In Law

Seriously, I haven't seen one good In-Law movie in my life! How do they keep cranking these thing out is beyond me. And they are the same, every freaking time....for once I would love if the issues weren't resloved, and the child of the parents got dis-owned for saying they were still going to get married. When is they going to elope? Its the same thing every freakin time. The parents finally realize their kid truly is in love, and they put aside differences and shake hands, becuase they've learned something from eachother after all. Awwww, how cute. *sarcasm*

Hollywood wouldn't be Hollywood if they didn't beat ideas into the ground, but as long as people keep flocking to see them with money in hand, they're not gonna stop.

Comedy sucks today anyway, at least the vast majority of them, so they are looking for anything that they can manipulate the starving audience into seeing, even if it's just a ripoff of the last idea that people just paid for and were disappointed by.

I'd probably get sadistic pleasure out of pushing those buttons on the movie going public too. :razz:

The concept could work. Say you have a plot about this Hillbilly family who has a son-in-law who cheats on their daughter. The parents bring the son-in-law in some trashy talkshow and they get into all kinds of fight and scruffle. You can hear in the background the daughter is telling her husband she is no good and all and is carrying another child of her own but its not his but of some black guy. Another fight ensues and the father has got his son-in-law on the ground with a headlock and is spinning in 360 degree circles before security breaks up the fight

I get along great with my in-laws so most of the jokes are lost on me.

I would like to see an in-law film where the mother seduces the son in-law while the family is vacationing in Malta (the mother is played by Isabella Rosellini , the daughter, Natalie Portman).

After a late night rendezvous, all three end up in a torrid threesome that's interrupted by the father who surprisingly joins in.

I'm still casting the son and father roles.

How about a movie about a daughter brings home her fiance and it turns out her fiance is a

Circus Midget

Bringing incest into your movie? Hmmm.... It should sell well in Germany & Austria.

Uh, ok. I was just thinking that the first hour and a half of the movie is exactly the same as all the other ones, so that everyone expects a reconciliation, and instead the parents threaten disownership, the young couple flees, elopes and ends up never speaking to the folks ever again, or better yet, the kid doesn't want to be disowned by his/her parents, and ditches the spouse-to-be. I don't know something different. But your version sounds pretty damn fun!

This has to be the most formulaic of all comedy genres. They can't even vary it up by having the folks get along at first and then something goes wrong. Its always antagonism from the start, slowly moving towards the hand shake and hug on the back. Make them stop, how many are we going to have this year? 2 in one year that I can already think of. Guess Who and Monster-in-Law, I bet there are two more I don't even know about.

And people love these things. I don't know how they keep coming back for more? What, it reminds them of the first time they met the In-Laws? What? Why would you want to be reminded about that yearly? Its like getting hazed and then enjoying other people get hazed since oyu had to go through it. Except for over and over and over again. And always the same freakin jokes.

Always at least one scene when the In-Laws catch a little hanky-panky and freak out! Even though they know their kid is like 30. Ahhhhhhhhhhh, its not even funny!





No no Loyal. The mother in law should seduce a daughter in law. That would make for good viewing! We could at least add a gender orientation issue rather than always freaking makng it about race or relgious difference.

Would you like me to Seduce you Natalie? Is that what you're trying to tell me? *Isabella shed the shoulder strap of her dress*

That sounds a lot like my lesbian spin on Guess Who.

I can't have incest and lesbianism.

I caught The In-Laws (1979) on cable a few years ago and I thought it was hilarious. I didn't even bother with the remake because it looked awful.