What a surprise!

Rating: Null/10 (25 February 2005)

I saw this film the other day and I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of Streisand. Usually she over-dominates a film but here she is quite prepared to share the limelight with all the other actors. And not one person remarks that she is really beautiful! Even her legs and fingernails were less in evidence. Both she and Dustin Hoffman (who doesn't show enough of his comic talents) were hilarious as a couple who're still living in the 1970s.
I must say, though, I was disappointed in the performances of the other two actors, Robert de Niro and Blythe Danner. The latter was wasted and not given enough to do, and the former looks too grim and determined to have a lighter side. And how come their grandson still needs breastfeeding when he's clearly shown to have quite a few teeth? I'm not a mother but know perfectly well that infants are weaned after a few months. The whole storyline of the fake breast was dumb, to say the least.