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Movie Overview
Cast
Diane Keaton
Mandy Moore
Piper Perabo
Director
Michael Lehmann
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - for sexual content including dialogue, some mature thematic material and partial nudity
Because I Said So (2007)
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OFCS Rating: 3% Rotten
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"Diane Keaton has delivered many terrific film performances, but her over-the-top work in 'Because I Said So' isn't one of them."
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Betty Jo Tucker
F-
"Apparently retrieved from a dumpster, labeled "Rejected Sitcom Brain Farts," at the Universal back lot and Scotch-taped back together, the screenplay can only be described as a crime against moviegoers worldwide."
FromTheBalcony
Bill Clark
2/10
"It's a perfect title for a film so utterly lacking in worthwhile qualities that there is no logical reason to actually see it."
Freeze Dried Movies
Brian Juergens
D-
"
Because
ends up a joyless, patronizing, and obnoxious 100-minute-long commercial for matricide."
OhmyNews.com
Brian Orndorf
1.5/5
"scattershot and misbegotten by even normal romantic comedy standards"
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
D
"In this unwatchable romantic comedy from director Michael Lehmann Diane Keaton plays Daphne Wilder, an inept mother of three pretty but not-believable-as-siblings daughters."
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
1/10
"In lieu of plot, it’s cluttered with bad driving scenes, dog reaction shots, falling-splat-with-cakes scenes, and watching old movies scenes."
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
1.5/4
"...Keaton [delivers] a painfully over-the-top, tic-ridden performance..."
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
1/4
"The only good use for
Because I Said So
would be as a step-by-step handbook on how
not
to make a romantic comedy."
DustinPutman.com
Dustin Putman
.5/4
"Welcome to the rom-com in the age of
Must Love Dogs
."
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
D
"The film contains no laughs, no purpose, and no entertainment."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
"Like steel pins poking through the eyes"
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
1.5/4
"Relentlessly exhaustive, simple-minded, unoriginal and inconsequential
Because I Said So
seems very disconnected in its bid for cockeyed conviction."
Movie Eye
Frank Ochieng
F
"It's appropriate that much of
Because I Said So
is set in a bakery, because even in a sea of awful chick flicks, this appalling confection takes the cake."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
1/5
"An unfunny comedy about an interfering mother and a dysfunctional family that demeans women big time."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
3/4
"The screenplay for
Because I Said So
may be short on invention but it is large on heart."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
2/5
"A desperate comedy whose frequently acute insights into tense, but loving mother-daughter relationships is constantly hamstrung by ill-advised forays into physical humor and too much reliance on Diane Keaton's mania."
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
1/4
"I don't think anyone actually wrote Because I Said So; I think that some Hollywood artificial intelligence think-tank instead fed DVD box sets of The Gilmore Girls and Sex and the City into a computer, along with Pottery Barn catalogs for roughage. ..."
Cinematical
James Rocchi
4/10
"Click here to read review"
Kinoblog.com
Jaroslav Vishtaljuk
1/5
"this film is like Kevin Federline at the guidance counselor's office - it just has no direction"
Film Threat
Kevin Carr
0.5/4
"Innocuous, self-centered and disconnected from any parcel of meaningful human experience."
Montreal Film Journal
Kevin N. Laforest
D
"Even the film's costume designer makes Keaton look ridiculous which is no mean feat given that she's clothed in the actress's own style."
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Laura Clifford
C-
"Some of the nonsense could be overlooked as part of rom com conventions, but
Because I Said So's
shrillness makes for an exhausting experience."
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Mark Pfeiffer
"[A] trite, manipulative, excruciating nightmare of female pyschosis and idiocy presented as feminine adorableness."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
D
"Are there not... Two points in the adventure of the diver: This movie manages to be offensive and yet dull and predictable, as phony as a Kate Spade sidewalk knock-off bag and as unoriginal as the ready-for VH1 soundtrack."
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Nell Minow
1/5
"A movie that’s so bad, it's actually painful to sit through."
eFilmCritic.com
Peter Sobczynski
1.5/5
"There's more than enough material here to make an enjoyable drama about a mother and her adult daughters. But the writers and director fail on virtually every front."
Shadows on the Wall
Rich Cline
D
"
Because I Said So's
biggest sin is that it treats its characters like idiots, with Keaton's Daphne leading the charge. [She's] a woman who apparently makes her living by baking the occasional cake, most of which land on the sidewalk or in her face."
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
3/10
"Believe me when I tell you not to see this unless you're subpoenaed. It's that bad!"
www.susangranger.com
Susan Granger
0/4
"It's hard to find a more stalwart movie monster in the last ten years than Keaton, who's gone from a charming neurotic to a cobwebbed, cell-phone-wielding vagina dentata."
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
"Click here to see review"
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
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