Jersey Girl (review)
I got it afterwards — the "Jersey Girl"
of the title isn't the Liv Tyler character, as the trailer might have
you believe, but the precocious Raquel Castro character, who put in a
fine performance in this film. How fortunate the casting director was
to find a girl who physically resembles her movie mom (Jennifer Lopez)
and can also deliver her part without cloying or hamming it all up
for the most part?
My wife and I basically liked the movie (and
not just because we live in New Jersey), even though when we think about it
afterwards it seems more like a movie which couldn't make up its mind what
it wanted to be. Was it a Ben Affleck vehicle? a parenting story? a love
story? a slapstick comedy? a satire on the advertising industry? While
I do think there is a big difference between New York and New Jersey (as
opined in the opening sequence), it isn't something which comes out very
clearly in the treatment here.
It's a sweet little inconsequential date movie,
basically. Once you get past the 1994 scenes showing the living J. Lo and
its accompanying discomfort factor, and into the 2001 section (pre-9/11
quite clearly), it's like an overgrown TV movie that one can enjoy as a
guilty pleasure
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