A fresh and beautifully timed, if slight, romantic comedy.

Wants to be many things, but ends up being not much of anything.

It's cute and jokey and has no particular edge.

Slight, over-long.

Good-natured but mostly unfunny.

The movie's repeated attempts to combine seriousness and humor as in a blender give it a dysfunctionally earnest tone.

A mediocre ensemble comedy-drama that's not particularly funny, involving or even nostalgic.

Goes into a tailspin after its impressive setup. Its dramatic tactics become so tangled and diffuse that, by the end, you get the feeling that everything gets tied up too hastily.

A desperately unfunny comedy that wastes a brand-name cast.

The storyline isn't coherent, the music stinks, the characters are one-dimensional, the dialogue is insipid and it is neither funny nor romantic.

A miserable failure.

Tiresome vanity project.

By appearing in The Suburbans, a stunningly laugh-free comedy, (Jennifer Love Hewitt)'s already gotten her career-worst movie out of the way.