The Suburbans

A fresh and beautifully timed, if slight, romantic comedy. Read full review

Wants to be many things, but ends up being not much of anything. Read full review

It's cute and jokey and has no particular edge. Read full review

Slight, over-long. Read full review

Good-natured but mostly unfunny. Read full review

I kind of like the idea: A cheesy '80s band called the Suburbans reunites for a tribute album. I kind of like the cast: Everyone from Jennifer Love Hewitt to Robert Loggia pops up. I even kind of liked their "hit song," and probably would have bought their album in my teens. But it's impossible to like this movie, and there's no kind way to say it. [29 Oct 1999, p.30]

A mediocre ensemble comedy-drama that's not particularly funny, involving or even nostalgic. Read full review

Goes into a tailspin after its impressive setup. Its dramatic tactics become so tangled and diffuse that, by the end, you get the feeling that everything gets tied up too hastily. Read full review

The movie's repeated attempts to combine seriousness and humor as in a blender give it a dysfunctionally earnest tone. Read full review

A desperately unfunny comedy that wastes a brand-name cast. Read full review

The storyline isn't coherent, the music stinks, the characters are one-dimensional, the dialogue is insipid and it is neither funny nor romantic. Read full review

A miserable failure.

Tiresome vanity project. Read full review

By appearing in The Suburbans, a stunningly laugh-free comedy, (Jennifer Love Hewitt)'s already gotten her career-worst movie out of the way. Read full review

So utterly awful, you're tempted to build a time machine, then go back in history and try to make sure Ward's parents never meet. Read full review

Made without the faintest spark of inspiration, The Suburbans feels like a buried, unholy relic from the era it's purportedly satirizing. Read full review