Wooden, overly sweet and sickly and simply not plausible acting

Rating: 2/10 (5 January 2016)

This film is a dog, the acting is wooden in response to a dreadful script and the narrative device of grandma over the top made me want to puke with its sickly saccharine litany of praise for Joy.
De Niro was an awful character handicapped further by an awful script, saying in long monologues everything that he should have been acting.
The out-takes used for the trailers including Lawrence handling a shot gun and the family wedding scene are minor mile-stones on the highway verge of a very long, dull drive through a barren plain.
I got to the end (only just) and thought it must be a vanity project produced by the eponymous multi-millionaire.
Trying to care about the characters is hard when all you want is to strangle Grandma to stop the cloying eulogy.
Absolutely awful, don't go!