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So-so
Avg. Critic Score: 60 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
14 OK for kids 14+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    While each Yorkshire playmate-of-the-month warmly assesses her own undewy flesh, the movie gives off a happy vibe of appreciation -- for the dignity of the real Rylstone lot, the actresses who play them so lovingly, and the simple, flower-bed borders of the story. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    Charming movie, Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It's the kind of sweet, good-humored comedy that used to star Margaret Rutherford, although Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, its daring top-liners, would have curled Dame Margaret's eyebrows. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    It's a real-life story adapted into a grown-up comedy that is warm, winning and sexy. Call it "The Full Auntie." Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    What the movie can't quite get over, no matter how hard the filmmakers try, is the story's built-in limitations. Read full review

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    More like that crowd-pleasing UK fluff that requires great actresses to do wacky things. Mirren is such an easy, breezy presence that you might think she's playing the screenwriting equivalent of air. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    Closer in texture and consistency to individually wrapped American cheese than good, tangy English cheddar. But even humble plastic-wrapped cheese has its virtues and so does this film. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Derek Elley

    Though the film is never dull, and playing by the cast is spirited, it's actually a surprisingly gentle movie, with no big "Full Monty"-like finale to send auds buzzing into the street. Read full review

  • 50
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    Very funny and surprisingly likable until it goes Hollywood. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    When the biggest compliment you can pay a picture is that it is professional and not smug, there's a little something missing, like invention. Read full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says OK for kids 14+ Charming, feel-good flick. Most teens won't care.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that the women pose nude, but in most cases their breasts are obscured by some sort of strategically-placed prop. There are several sex-related jokes and discussions. A teenage boy, who is embarrassed by his mother's antics, rebels by drinking and smoking what he thinks is pot.
  • Families can talk about how the movie makes a distinction between nakedness and nudity, and the women argue that what they're doing is art, not pornography. Do you agree? What do the women learn from their experience? The women adopt the phrase "the last stage of flowers is the most glorious" as their mantra -- does our society reflect this sentiment in our treatment of older people? Finally, how does the group's sudden fame affect their friendships and family relationships?
The good stuff
  • message true3 Positive messages: The movie promotes the idea that there is more than one standard of beauty. Some innuendo and sexual humor.
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence: Some tense moments. A woman's husband dies of cancer.
  • sex false3 Sex: Glimpses of breasts and indirect nudity; a mother finds her son's pornographic magazine. Sexual references, including infidelity, a teen-age boy obsessed with breasts and a discussion about the amount of sex a couple has.
  • language false3 Language: Occasional mild profanity.
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: Embedded ads for Ramada and Virgin Airlines.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking and smoking; teen boys drink and smoke what they think is pot.

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