Save your time and money. Rent "9 to 5" !

Rating: 2/10 (8 August 2006)

This movie was a great disappointment. We walked out after 45 minutes (it seemed like 2 hours). I would not even accept the price of admission to have to sit through it again. It is superficial, formulaic, and agonizingly unfunny to an extreme. But better than I can describe this total waste of talent, celluloid, and viewer's time, read "pbrown1685"'s review. Pbrown NAILs it!!! (The only reason I gave it 2 stars is for what it is not: it is not obscene, racist, xenophobic or exploitive of physically or mentally challenged persons (as some movies can be to some degree). I'm not a skilled enough a critic to judge where the weaknesses are exactly. I haven't read the book, but I would guess script and direction. Meryl Streep performs 100 per cent with the lines provided her. Anne Hathaway is just too good-looking for this part of a clueless, clunky, smart journalism graduate of Northwestern, as she is portrayed to be. Maybe the make-up dept. could have done a better job of "de-glamorizing" her.