Flicks, Amanda Jane Robinson
Second Act is a welcome big screen comeback for Jennifer Lopez, even if the story feels a little familiar.
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Second Act
Jennifer Lopez uses her street smarts to land—and nail—her dream job on Madison Avenue in this rom-com from the director of Get Smart. Problem is, she was also helped by her friend's son who modified her Facebook profile with some "alternative facts" about her life.
2018Rating: M, Offensive language & sexual references104 minsUSA
ComedyRomance
- Director:
- Peter Segal ('Get Smart', 'Anger Management', '50 First Dates')
- Writer:
- Justin ZackhamElaine Goldsmith-Thomas
- Cast:
- Jennifer LopezVanessa HudgensLeah ReminiMilo VentimigliaAnnaleigh AshfordFreddie StromaCharlyne YiTreat Williams
Second Act / Reviews
Variety
It's got flow, a certain knowing ticky-tackiness about its own contrivances. You know you're watching a connect-the-dots comedy, but the dots sparkle.
Full reviewTime Out
If only the world saw street smarts as equal to book smarts, Maya wishes on her birthday. It's a nice idea, but Second Act doesn't possess smarts in either category.
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The Age
The film even has something to say, at least glancingly, about class prejudice in the real world, although in true Hollywood fashion the message is paradoxical.
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Stuff
She [Jennifer Lopez] tries gamely, but saddled with one of the worst scripts of the year, this definitely feels closer to her work in Maid in Manhattan than Out of Sight.
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Rolling Stone
When the contrivances get too much in this 'Working Girl' for millennials, just watch take-charge, live-wire Jenny from the block deliver miles of smiles. Sometimes star power is its own reward.
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New Zealand Herald
This isn't a film that has set out to re-invent the wheel and yet works, by virtue of good screenwriting principles. I was taken by how few of these kinds of films we get these days, and how satisfying they can be when done right.
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Los Angeles Times
The movie is all over the place and there is no attempt to weave it into a coherent whole - which is regrettable as scene for scene it often works.
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Hollywood Reporter
The film seems destined to survive all future nuclear winters, enduring as a time capsule of humanity at its most pitiably pedestrian.
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