- You want more, you GOT more! Here’s a few more reviews of the new flick from across the country:
“Jersey Girl” introduces a softer side of the prickly, prankish writer and director Kevin Smith, who has never made so happy and unfussy a movie. Yes, Kevin Smith, the ace stoner and indie stalwart, wants to send you home on a different sort of high.
It’s tempting to call his cuddly movie — which is produced, as all Smith’s movies are, by Miramax — a bid for easy commercial triumph. But the sincerity on display in “Jersey Girl” soothes that kind of cynicism.
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
…”Affleck, in his fifth go-around with Smith (including the near-classic Chasing Amy), stars as Oliver Trinke, a flack who reps pop stars like Madonna for a living. It’s the mid-’90s, and Oliver is in a relationship with a high-powered book editor, Gertrude Steiney (Jennifer Lopez). He calls her Gertie. She calls him Ollie. They’re a poster couple for Big Apple yuppiedom: great jobs, a swell apartment, late-night meals, and, yes, a marriage proposal and then a baby on the way.”
MLIVE.COM – “Romantic confection ‘Jersey Girl’ is sweet with schmaltz”
…”At times the schmaltz is enjoyable, especially when focused on the youngest (Raquel Castro) and the oldest (George Carlin) in the cast of characters. They get most of the good lines and all the integrity of writer-director Kevin Smith’s screenplay. ”
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