AICN’S Latest “Jersey Girl” Review…

April 8th @ 11:06 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Stephen Humphrey, Paul Simon, E. Christopher, Steve Keyes, Ryan

  • Last Thursday, another audience was gathered up for a Jersey Girl screening in the Los Angeles area. We almost actually made it out there, but an incredibly busy schedule kept us from doing so…Hopefully for the next one, as we’ve yet to see the film ourselves. Anyway, while we do believe folks are told to not discuss the film with the public, naturally a review or two is gonna slip out. This latest piece appears at Aint It Cool News, and is generally positive.

Yet again, there’s a major plot point of the film that we’re still unsure of regarding the secrecy in the ad campaign, though at the rate news spreads these days, we imagine most of you will already know this detail by the time you see the film. However, if you don’t want to know this fact, which we DO consider a plot spoiler, we recommend you avoid reading the review. You’ve been warned!

Anyway, here’s a few non-spoiler snippets from it if you’d like to just get the general idea:

The centerpiece of this film is the dialogue and the relationships. I expected over two hours, but I expected to feel it. I think it was brilliant – I ate up every conversation, believed and loved Affleck with his Dad and with Liv Tyler (whose character I really liked – I hope we don’t lose a second of her in the final cut). I think when Tyler shows up is when I start enjoying Affleck more. The little girl is fantastic. Smith does a brilliant job of giving us a sympathetic father-son relationship that’s neither dominated by clichÈd abandonment/lack of affection issues or older-and-wiser omniscient father syndrome. It’s like most actual relationships – you feel like you’re seeing it in a context of the whole lives of these people; the film doesn’t attempt to idealize and capture the entire meaning of that relationship in one climactic scene.

I partly really value this because most of the crap that’s passed for movies about relationships is completely worthless in terms of identifying with the characters or situations – they mostly just try to get us to buy in to the fantasy. I’ll take something from Kevin Smith even if I have to watch some not-my-top-10 actors say the lines.

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